Tuesday, 10 April 2018

Good Friday Agreement - 20th anniversary - try our free academic services.

Its the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.
 the Belfast Agreement paved the way for a relatively peaceful end to the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Find out more using these resources.

The peace agreement and its implementation.

Read the full text of the original agreement on the UK government website.
The UN Peacemeaker database has a number of full text treaties and documents between the British and Irish government

read many full text  official documents and commentaries  on the Irish peace proces from the great CAIN archive based at Ulster University.
they include the Northern Ireland Peace Monitoring Reports (2012-), published by the Community Relations Council.
The ARK Qualitative Archive on Conflict - a searchable database of information about qualitative material related to the Northern Ireland conflict.
Incore - oral archive of accounts of the conflict maintained by Ulster University.

Bodies created by the agreement.

The North South Ministerial Council (NSMC) was established under the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement (1998), to develop consultation, co-operation and action within the island of Ireland. Its website has information on its areas of work and progress.
The British-Irish Council was established as part of the multi-party agreement reached in Belfast on 10 April 1998. Its membership comprises representatives from the Irish Government; UK Government; Scottish Government; Northern Ireland Executive; Welsh Government; Isle of Man Government; Government of Jersey and Government of Guernsey. It aimed to promote good relations

20th anniversary resources and anlysis

political parties.
Sinn Fein 
SDLP

A podcast from the Conversation blog discusses the 20th anniversary.
LSE Blogs discussion 
Slugger o'toole blog
it includes some videos from an Agreement 20  conference at Manchester.
Belfast Telgraph
BBC 
RTE  
Irish Times Analysis
Guardian Editorial
Queens University Belfast has a facebook live debate on the  proces and impact with key figures.
they also have discussion on their blog
Institute for Government live stream event.



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