Peace agreements and human rights by Christine Bell
Oxford University Press 2000
The Belfast Agreement demonstrates a reconciliation of political pragmatism and international law. International lawyers can, with some excitement, point to a deal that has harmonised minority rights with self-determination. This was achieved through creative mechanisms that build on notions of 'internal' self-determination for groups. Yet this internal self-determination has external elements which do not disrupt territorial integrity, but yet transcend traditional notions of sovereignty and statehood.
(1999).
1 Cassese (1998) 362.
1 See Eide (1996) published during the peace process, on the request of the Irish Government's Forum for Peace and Reconciliation, suggesting how a solution might be fashioned using international law standards. This publication itself is evidence of the use of international law in the process.
i See further Bell & Cavanaugh (1999).
ii Cassese (1998) 362.
iii See Eide (1996) published during the peace process, on the request of the Irish Government's Forum for Peace and Reconciliation, suggesting how a solution might be fashioned using international law standards. This publication itself is evidence of the use of international law in the process.
iv The Downing Street Declaration, 15 December 1993, paragraph 4. For a fuller account of the influences on the IRA cease-fire, see Mallie & McKittrick (1996).
v Ulster Unionist Party (1994) 6-7.
vi This view still characterises, for example, current Democratic Unionist Party rhetoric of 'ordinary citizens' as including only those with a pro-Union allegiance.
vii Ratified 15 January 1998.
viii See McCorquodale (1995).
ix See Mageean & O'Brien (1999); McCrudden (1999a).
x Belfast Agreement (BA), Rights, Safeguards and Equality of Opportunity, Comparable Steps by the Irish Government.
xi Stephen King of the Ulster Unionist Party, as quoted in Ann Marie Hourihane,
King of the Hill, Sunday Tribune, Dec. 27 1988. |
