The Good Friday Agreement, also known as the Belfast Agreement, is a historic peace treaty signed on April 10, 1998, that ended decades of violent conflict in Northern Ireland by establishing a framework for power-sharing and mutual respect between unionists and republicans.
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The Good Friday
agreement the historic peace treaty
brought Republicans and unionists
together after Decades of violent
political conflict in Northern Ireland
so what is the Good Friday agreement and
how did it come to be this is DEC
complicated what is the Good Friday
agreement the Belfast agreement more
commonly known as The Good Friday
agreement was a peace treaty signed in
Northern Ireland on the 10th of April
1998 it effectively brought an end to a
period of trauma and turmoil known as
the troubles which had raged in the
region for around 30 years the conflict
was between Republicans who wanted the
province to become part of United
Ireland and unionists who wanted to
remain within the UK the peace treaty
established a cross community consensus
for peace and the future direction of the
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region what were the troubles
from the late 1960s Northern Ireland was
plunged into a brutal conflict between
Republicans who with the wider
nationalist Community are mostly
Catholic and unionists who are mostly
Protestant violence was largely
perpetrated by par military groups on
both sides such as the IRA and the uvf
While others were killed by the British
Security Forces after the Army was
deployed in the summer of
1969 of the
3,53 32 people who died the majority
were civilians many of whom were killed
in random tit fortat attacks across the
sectarian divide for the bulk of this
30-year period of conflict Northern
Ireland was under direct rule from
Westminster how did the Good Friday
agreement come to be after years of
failed negotiations and backchannel
discussions progress was slowly made
across the 1990s in 1996 cross party
peace talks began eight Northern Ireland
political parties were involved and the
UK and Irish governments and US
President Bill Clinton sent a senator to chair
chair
talks the agreement was eventually
announced on the afternoon of the 10th
of April
1998 the British and Irish governments
agreed to hold joint referendums on the
22nd of May 1998 the referendum in
Northern Ireland was on accepting the
Good Friday agreement itself a copy of
which was posted to every household
and 71% of people voted yes the
referendum in the Republic of Ireland
was to amend the country's Constitution
to relinquish its claim on Northern
Ireland an overwhelming 94% of people
voted to do so the deal was formally
made between the British and Irish
governments and the eight political
parties from Northern Ireland however
the dup Northern Ireland's largest
unionist party were the only major
political group to oppose it the
agreement ackn knowledged the
Constitutional status of Northern
Ireland as part of the UK reflecting the
wish of the majority of citizens but it
also established a principle of consent
that a United Ireland could come about
if and when a majority of people both in
the Republic of Ireland and Northern
Ireland wanted
it in this instance the British
government would be bound to hold a
referendum and honor the result three
strands of new institutions were
established in the agreement a
democratically elected Powers sharing
Northern Ireland assembly to create laws
in the region a north south ministerial
Council for crossb issues and a British
Irish Council and governmental
conference the Northern Ireland assembly
would be elected every 5 years and be
led by an executive or cabinet of
ministers which would require the
participation of parties on both sides
of the community divide crucially the
agreement committed the parties to
democratic and peaceful methods of
resolving political issues but also to
begin the decommissioning of
paramilitary groups and normalized
security Arrangements in Northern
Ireland the agreement marked a
commitment to the mutual respect the
Civil Rights and the religious Liberties
of everyone in the community and Britain
agreed to incorporate the European
convention on human rights into the law
Ireland Good Friday agreement put an end
to the troubles in Northern Ireland but
the work of sustaining peace goes on
despite all challenges to the Accord
over the years and the difficulties that
are still occurring today the Good
Friday agreement has been a major
example of Peace building to the world [Music]
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