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Prepared statement by Dr. Richard Haass

                                                             March 11, 2014   Prepared statement by Richard N. Haass President Council on Foreign Relations and Former Independent Chair Panel of Parties in the Northern Ireland Executive   Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations and Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging […]

UUP’S DOCUMENT SHOWS ANGUISH AND FRUSTRATION

“They can’t see it because the only history is the one they believe in. There is no place for an alternative view of the world. They want to force their view on everyone else and will not move until that happens. Hence the tragic demand to re-run Drumcree, a cause lost 15 years ago.” Brian Feeney. Irish News ( Belfast). Wednesday, […]

Violence could re-emerge warns Haass

David Young.Irish News.(Belfast).Wednesday, March 12, 2014 RICHARD Haass yesterday expressed concern over a potential return to serious violence unless issues from the past are dealt with. The former US diplomat, whose efforts to negotiate a deal on long standing disputes on flags, parades and the toxic legacy of the Troubles ended on New Year’s Eve without consensus, insisted that […]

Halt to Hamill case quashed

  NOTE: On April 22, 1999, the Irish National Caucus arranged for Robert Hamill’s sister Diane to testify on Robert’s case before the House International Relations Committee. By happy coincidence — on the same day as this new Congressional Hearing — today’s Irish News reports developments in the Hamill case, one of the worst in […]

Parades, peace talks and the lessons learned

The Legacy.Febuary 24, 2014 Funded by the Community Relations Council, 104 of my colleagues were falling down round me. THE battle to defuse parades disputes in Belfast has provided lessons that have been used in trouble spots around the world. The Detail’s Barry McCaffrey examines one of the past successes, at a time when some fear that the tension caused by dissident republican […]

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