This article explores how young people reimagine social relations and negotiate difference within a deeply divided context in a period of increasing national contention. It explores if and how they combine an ethno-national situatedness and wider shared horizons. It uses a ‘situated cosmopolitan’ frame as a heuristic and shows how the case illustrates the difficulty of this stance. The article reports on research that engaged with 52 young participants in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland between 2014 and 2022. Using interviews, focus groups and a deliberative café method, we analyse how they qualify national particularism to make divisions less important. We argue that ‘friendly conversation’ is a key mechanism by which shared horizons are constructed by young people, who reframe their political choices and constitutional preferences in universalist ways, open to understanding and reflection. Our study has important political implications. We show the demonstrable appetite among young people to explore diversity and division, the need to initiate deliberative arenas for informal friendly conversations among the young, and to reframe divisive national and constitutional debate in terms of the shared values that we have analysed.

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在严重分裂的背景下，青年剧目和世界视野

本文探讨了年轻人如何在国家纷争日益加剧的时期，在严重分裂的背景下重新构想社会关系并协商差异。它探讨了它们是否以及如何将民族-国家地位和更广泛的共同视野结合起来。它使用“位于世界”的框架作为启发式方法，并展示了该案例如何说明这种立场的难度。文章报告了 2014 年至 2022 年间对北爱尔兰和爱尔兰共和国的 52 名年轻参与者进行的研究。使用访谈、焦点小组和深思熟虑的咖啡馆方法，我们分析了他们如何限定国家特殊主义以降低划分的重要性。我们认为，“友好对话”是年轻人构建共同视野的关键机制，他们以普世主义的方式重新构建他们的政治选择和宪法偏好，对理解和反思持开放态度。我们的研究具有重要的政治意义。我们展示了年轻人探索多样性和分裂的明显兴趣，需要发起青年之间非正式友好对话的审议舞台，并根据我们分析的共同价值观重新构建分裂的国家和宪法辩论。