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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