This paper examines the impact of the Belfast Agreement on north-south economic
cooperation in Ireland, using the tourism industry as a case study. The first part of
the paper sets out the suggested benefits that may ...
Strand one negotiations:
The Good Friday Agreement was the culmination of almost two years of multi-party negotiations designed to resolve difficult relationships between the two main communities within Northern Ireland, ...
Todd, Jennifer(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2003)
This paper argues that until the early twenty-first century the Northern Ireland conflict retained an unstable triangular form (the legacy of the long-past colonial period), where the British state was inextricably imbricated ...
Ganiel, Gladys(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2002)
Some of the most severe opposition to the Good Friday agreement has come from the unionist community, particularly those classified as fundamentalist Protestants. This paper seeks to correct the overemphasis on fundamentalism, ...
Todd, Jennifer(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2009)
One position on the regulation of ethnic conflict assumes that such conflict is in part driven by popular perceptions of ethnic injustice and can be regulated by enforcement of ethnic equality. Critics argue that such ...
O'Connor, Tim(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2005)
This paper sets out the background to the new North-South institutional architecture contained in the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement—the negotiations themselves and the outcome. Given that much of the detail remained to be ...
Coakley, John(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2001)
The agreement reached between the British and Irish governments and the Northern Irish political parties in April 1998 was a complex and subtle political document that built on experience in other societies and that itself ...
This paper criticizes four typical explanations of settlement of internal conflicts, showing that they fail to give an adequate explanation of the 1998 settlement in Northern Ireland. Instead of inductively searching for ...
Meehan, Elizabeth M.(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2009)
Since the EU is relevant to the Good Friday Agreement as a whole, the paper starts by touching upon how it both facilitated the Agreement and, yet, also hindered Strand 2 (North-South relations). Strand 3 (the British-Irish ...
A political perspective:
The Good Friday Agreement continues to play a central role in providing a level playing pitch for the future governance of Northern Ireland. The Agreement itself was unique in being endorsed by ...
A political perspective:
This paper reflects on the challenges and difficult contexts which hindered the process of negotiation that resulted in the Good Friday agreement. Problems included past political experiences, the ...
Social identification processes can be seen as the basis of the conflict in Northern Ireland. During the conflict it can be argued that preferred social and political identities became increasingly oppositional and ...
Todd, Jennifer(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2003)
This paper outlines the process by which an archive of audio-taped interviews with participants in the multi-party negotiations which led to the Good Friday Agreement was collected. It outlines some of the difficulties ...
The Haagerup Report commissioned by the European Parliament in 1984 was the first major initiative taken by the European Union on the situation of conflict in Northern Ireland. It embodied a conceptualisation of the conflict ...
A POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE:
The current difficulties in the peace process need to be addressed as a matter of urgency. Although the two governments claim that the IRA is the only obstacle to a lasting settlement, the reality ...