The radical threats created by the transformation of ex-combatants and the logic of "long division" faced by the leaders of paramilitary organizations has had a powerful effect upon the members of these groups and the communities in which they are embedded. In order to survive the radical threats discussed in  Chapter 7, paramilitary leaders were compelled to deliver their organizations into the "peace process' as units, and to guarantee their compliance with its rules and norms. Although significant discussion took place between these leaders and representatives of formal political parties during the talks leading up to the signing of the GF/BA, this remained largely at the elite level. However, despite their monolithic images, within the ranks of both Loyalist and Republican paramilitary organizations existed plural world(view)s and modes of world-making. By virtue of the logic of long division, many of these silent pluralities were repressed, excluded, threatened and even eliminated, creating a strong dynamic of radical violence within and among paramilitary organizations. In many cases, where the degree of radical threat became irresistible, some of the groups in question responded with physical or material violence, and the more familiar patterns of violence recognized by policymakers and journalists emerged. It is this set of dynamics, I shall argue, that helped to ignite the "Loyalist feuds' of the late 1990s and early 2000s, and, ultimately, the (re)emergence of "dissident Republican" violence that is occurring at the time of writing (May 2010). By analyzing these dynamics, I shall demonstrate how the Northern Ireland "peace process' – and the acts of physical and material violence that plague it – has been least partly predicated on radical violence.