Common Contracts
1 similar null contracts
A L E X A N D E R C . O L T E A N UFebruary 11th, 2022
The 1998 Good Friday Agreement gave Northern Ireland the hope of peace and the prospect of democratic government, within a wider European framework of governance. Today, this Agreement is on life-support as Northern Ireland has become a central battlefield of the post-Brexit UK-EU conflict. This paper argues that the origin of the GFA’s legitimacy erosion is rooted much earlier in time than Britain’s exit from the European Union – namely in the failure of leading Northern Irish political parties and their respective state sponsors to fully implement the complex deliberative consociationalism architecture of the Agreement, centered around its innovative Civic Forum. After outlining in its introduction the Civic Forum’s transformative Project, this paper discusses, in its three main sections, the Civic Forum’s immanent Promise as the linchpin of the Agreement’s deliberative consociational architecture, its actual practice during its brief existence as it engaged with its “constitutive ou
