Lorenzo Bosi is an assistant professor in the Centre for Social Movement Studies at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Scuola Normale Superiore. Gianluca De Fazio is an assistant professor in the Department of Justice Studies at James Madison University.

Chapter 1: Contextualizing the Troubles: Investigating Deeply Divided Societies through Social Movements ResearchChapter 2: What did the Civil Rights Movement Want? Changing Goals and Underlying Continuities in the Transition from Protest to ViolenceChapter 3: Vacillators or Resisters? The Unionist Government Responses to the Civil Rights Movement in Northern IrelandChapter 4: White Negroes and the Pink IRA: External Mainstream Media Coverage and Civil Rights Contention in Northern IrelandChapter 5: 'We are the people': Protestant Identity and Collective Action in Northern Ireland, 1968-1985Chapter 6: Ulster Loyalist Accounts of Armed Mobilization, Demobilization, and DecommissioningChapter 7: Social Movements and Social Movement Organizations: Recruitment, Ideology, and SplitsChapter 8: Movement Inside and Outside of Prison: The H-Block ProtestChapter 9: 'Mother Ireland, Get Off Our Backs': Republican Feminist Resistance in the North of IrelandChapter 10: 'One Community, Many Faces': Non-Sectarian Social Movements and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland and LebanonChapter 11: The Peace People: Principled and Revolutionary Nonviolence in Northern IrelandAfterword: Social Movements, Long-Term Processes, and Ethnic Division in Northern Ireland