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The Referenda | N. Ireland Referendum | Northern Ireland says Yes, Implications of the Yes vote and Huge Yes vote welcomed (BBC News, May 23, 1998) | The Referendum on Northern Ireland - Your Time to Decide | Ireland Decides (RTÉ) | Yes or No - The essential guide to the most important decision you'll ever make (Belfast Telegraph) |

June 25, 1998 Northern Ireland Assembly Elections | Assembly Elections and The State of the Parties (BBC News) | The Assembly Explained, Dr Sydney Elliott, Queen's University, Belfast (BBC News) | Northern Ireland Assembly Elections 1998 (Nicholas Whyte) | Politics in Northern Ireland - The Assembly and Religious breakdown in Northern Ireland constituencies (Belfast Telegraph) | The Single Transferable Vote - Easy as 1, 2, 3... (Electoral Reform Society) |

Analysis and Commentary | "Justice for all? - An Analysis of the Human Rights Provisions of the 1998 Northern Ireland Peace Agreement" (Human Rights Watch, April, 1998) | "World leaders back Stormont Agreement" (BBC News, May 16, 1998) | "Harvard talks on N. Ireland end amid rancor" (Adam Pertman, Boston Globe, July 25, 1998) |

Analysis and Commentary | BBC News - "Arms handover talks 'constructive'", "Decommissioning details revealed, "Decommissioning could be stumbling block" (May 27, 1998) and "LVF violence over 'forever'" (August 8, 1998) | Irish Times - "Not a hope on arms by May deadline, says Ahern" and "Mandelson seeks compromise points for sides" (March 29, 2000) | Le Monde Diplomatique - "Difficile adieu aux armes en Irlande du Nord; L'intransigeance des paramilitaires et de Londres" (Pierre Joannon, March 1996) | The Sunday Business Post - "Section 31 silenced the voice of justice for all of 25 years" (Tom McGurk, May 10, 1998) | "Violence in Northern Ireland, 1969 - June 1989" (Brendan O'Duffy and Brendan O'Leary, in The Future of Northern Ireland, John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary, eds., Oxford University Press,1990) |

Policing | Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland (Patten Commission) and The Report | BBC News - The Patten Report and Report Summary |

The Omagh Bombing | Key Events - The Omagh Bomb, 15 August 1998 (CAIN Web Service) | "Nine children among 28 dead", "Sinn Fein condemnation 'unequivocal'", "'Carnage, misery and sorrow'", "'It was a battlefield'" and "Who are the 'Real IRA?'" (BBC News, August 16, 1998) |

Related Human Rights Groups and Organizations | Britain and Ireland Human Rights Centre | Pat Finucane Centre | Committee on the Administration of Justice | Charter 88 | Connolly Association | Families Against Intimidation and Terror (FAIT) | Liberty | Rosemary Nelson Campaign | Victims and Survivors Trust |

Commentary and Analysis | "Policing the Police: Northern Ireland's Marching Season" and "Interview with Martin O'Brien of the Committee on the Administration of Justice" (Witness Archive) | "Inside the Orange Order" (BBC News, June 29, 1998) | "Violence turns Belfast into 'ghost-town'" (BBC News, July 10, 1998) | "The Endless Parade" (Neil Jarman, Material Conflicts: Parades and Visual Displays in Northern Ireland, Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1997) | "The long march of history - Orange order power forced successive governments to drop attempts to stop the parades" (Christine Kinealy, The Guardian, July 13, 1998) | "Orange disorder poses toughest test for Trimble" (Barry White) and "How British public opinion is turning" (Brendan O'Leary, Irish Independent, July 14, 1998) | "Orangemen risk British backlash after child killings" (Hugo Young, July 14, 1998) and "Blood Orange" (Mark Steel, The Guardian, July 15, 1998) |

Peace Process Documents | The Irish Peace Process - List of Source Documents (CAIN Web Service) | Anglo-Irish Agreement 1985 (Irish Ministry of Foreign Affairs) | Downing Street Declaration (December 15,1993) | Statement by Taoiseach (Albert Reynolds, December 15, 1993) | IRA Ceasefire Statement (August 31, 1994) | CLMC Ceasefire Statement (October 13, 1994) | Joint Communiqué (British PM-Taoiseach) (November 25 1995) | Framework Document (Major-Bruton announcement, 1995) | Report of the International Body on Arms Decommissioning (Mitchell Commission) (George J Mitchell, John de Chastelain, Harri Holkeri January 24, 1996) | "Paths to a Political Settlement: Realities, Principles and Requirements" (Final Paper of the Drafting Committee of the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation, February 2, 1996) | End of IRA Ceasefire Statement (February 9, 1996) | Downing Street Communiqué (Bruton-Major statement, February 28, 1996) | Consultation Paper: Ground Rules for Substantive All-Party Negotiations (March 15, 1996) | Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations, etc) Act 1996 | "Policing and the Northern Ireland Peace Process", Roger Mac Ginty (INCORE), March 1997 | Peace Process - Text of Document on Decommissioning (June 25, 1997) | Text of the IRA 1997 Ceasefire (July 20, 1997) | "Parties now have a chance to move towards peace", Mo Mowlam, The Irish Times (July 22, 1997) | Sinn Féin position paper presented to Mo Mowlam (August 7, 1997) | Text of Agreement on Independent International Commission on Decommissioning (August 26, 1997) | Peace Process - 'Propositions on Heads of Agreement' (January 12, 1998) | Text of IRA statement on the 'Heads of Agreement' Document (January 21, 1998) | Ulster Freedom Fighters (Ulster Defence Association) Statement (January 23, 1998) | The Agreement, Text of the Agreement reached in the multi-party negotiations (April 10, 1998) | IRA Statement on Decommissioning (April 30, 1998) | Hillsborough Declaration (April 1, 1999) | IRA Statement on Decommissioning (Nov. 17, 1999) | IRA Statement on Decommissioning (May 6, 2000) |

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Last update: July 27, 2000.

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