On Walzer's hermeneutics of justice, Gadamer's criterion of openness and northern Ireland's Belfast agreement

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• An earlier version of this was presented to the PSAI Annual Conference, Newry, October 1998. I would like to thank the following for subsequent comments: Dr Shane O'Neill; Georgia Warnke; participants at the QUB Postgraduate Reading Group. The article was completed in mid‐1999.
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