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Is the Good Friday Agreement Fundementally Flawed as a Counter Terrorist
Strategy. Is the Good Friday Peace Agreement Fundamentally ...
Submitted by Steve22 on November 20, 2006
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Is the Good Friday Peace Agreement Fundamentally Flawed as A Counter Terrorist Strategy?
Since it’s birth on 10 April 1998, the Good Friday Agreement has been fraught with crisis after crisis. The executive was suspended in February 2000 then reinstated five months later. The main crux of these crises is a dispute over decommissioning of weapons. In Northern Ireland itself there has been no marked decrease in violence, it is just not reported on as much in the worlds press. In a rare feature story of recent times, one reads of young catholic children being among the victims of abuse from Protestants over territorial claims to area. Yet there are few reports of the continuing violence that occurs on a day-to-day basis.
In examining whether the peace agreement is flawed as a counter terrorist strategy one must consider a number of factors. What spirit the agreement is trying to convey is fundamental to the discussion. Then, who are the terrorists that it is attempting to counter, if at all? But first consideration will be given to other peace agreements that have succeeded.
Following 15 years of Civil war in Lebanon the T’aif Accord was drawn up outlining a new political and social consensus. The basis of this agreement was to form a power sharing government so that all communities may be represented in parliament. Unlike Northern Ireland the issues of decommissioning, ceasefires and dissolution of paramilitary forces were not featured during negotiations; only until the new government was formed were they tackled. Disarmament became the major problem with, on one side, Lebanese forces arguing that a more favourable communal balance had to be achieved, and, on the other, Hizballah claiming right to arm as a result of their liberation war with Israel. On a social level, however, progress was made with ten thousand Christians and Muslims being integrated into the Army and Police. Eventually partial voluntary decommissioning began...
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