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Writing Peace

Writing Peace is an initiative of the Quill Project in Pembroke College and the Faculty of History at Oxford University, in collaboration with partners in Ireland and the US, to create a rounded view of the peace talks in Northern Ireland from the late 1980s to early 2000s. Online resource collections and cutting-edge analytical tools celebrate the constellation of peace makers involved and help scholars and practitioners alike to learn lessons for the future.

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Introduction

Writing Peace offers a unique collection and visualization of primary source material relating to the peace process, allowing users to understand the context within which key decisions and compromises were made, the origins of particular phrases, and the developing roles of individuals and political parties.

The model at the heart of the project is constructed by taking official accounts and papers and using them to create a ‘spine’ in the software platform around which the digital edition is constructed. Unofficial sources, private papers and correspondence, and later recollections are presented as a secondary layer of material around this core. It is hoped that links to relevant public briefings, oral history and media archives will also be added over time. This layering enables us to build multiple perspectives into the model even at an early stage when we are working primarily from a single archive, but it is also sufficiently flexible to allow us to expand the model as we gain access to new sources and additional archives through collaborations with other institutions and individuals.

At the outset, it was anticipated that more papers relating to the Peace Process would have been deposited with archives and even digitized, and so would be simply signposted from the Quill model. Instead, much of the first eighteen months of the project have been dedicated to document recovery and digitization. (All documents acquired and scanned during this process have been returned to Ireland to the care of local archives as acquisition of documents has never been the intention of this project.)

We are now able to make available our first Writing Peace Resource Collections. Several other Collections are currently in production, including David Trimble's archive, and we are actively seeking partners to broaden the range of material either hosted by or linked to from the site. Development of the digital models that will visualize these collections is currently underway, and preview access is provided to the earliest models on the Brooke-Mayhew Talks and the Downing Street Declaration. Further models and revisions to the existing models are anticipated in 2024.

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Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993)

WORK IN PROGRESS - This project is still under development. It models a series of formal and informal negotiations which led to the publication, in December 1993, of a declaration issued jointly by the British and Irish Governments. The Joint...

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Northern Ireland Mini-Models

A selection of mini-models designed to provide an insight into the ongoing work of 'Writing Peace' and to demonstrate Quill's approach to visualising the archive material and tracking the process of negotiation. This collection is still under...

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Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992

WORK IN PROGRESS - IN THE FINAL STAGES OF EDITING A series of talks launched by Peter Brooke, Secretary of State for Northern in Ireland, which began in April 1991, and were carried on intermittently by Brooke and his successor, Patrick Mayhew,...

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Northern Ireland International Body on Arms Decommissioning 1995-1996

The International Body on Arms Decommissioning was appointed as part of the twin-track process. It was led by the people who would later become the Independent Chairmen of the 1996-1998 peace talks. They produced the Mitchell report, which set...

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Northern Ireland Forum for Political Dialogue

The Forum for Political Dialogue met between 1996 and 1998 in Belfast as part of the negotiations that led to the Good Friday Agreement.

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Northern Ireland All-Party Talks June 1996 - April 1998

A model of this round of all-party talks, often known as the "Mitchell Talks", is forthcoming in Autumn 2024.

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Northern Ireland Forum for Peace and Reconciliation 1994-1996

Dublin Forum convened by the Government of the Republic of Ireland

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Writing Peace: Monica McWilliams Collection

Monica McWilliams is Emeritus Professor in the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University, and has campaigned tirelessly for peace and human rights in both Northern Ireland and the wider world for more than four decades. As co-founder of...

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Writing Peace: Forum For Political Dialogue Record of Debates

The Forum for Political Dialogue met between 1996 and 1998 in Belfast alongside the negotiations that led to the Good Friday Agreement. The Records of Debate were originally posted on the Forum's website, which has since been archived. Lord...

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Writing Peace: Brendan Duddy Collection

Curated links to the University of Galway Archives, charting Brendan's Duddy's behind-the-scenes involvement in the peace process over three decades.

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Writing Peace Documents

Signed agreements belonging to the Writing Peace Project, including ethics approval, MOUs, and release forms for oral histories. INTERNAL USE ONLY - not for publication.

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Writing Peace: Dermot Nally Collection

This collection is one box (P254) from a larger selection of Dermot Nally's papers held in the University College Dublin Archives. The documents in the box relate to the development of the Downing Street Joint Declaration, made by the British and...

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Writing Peace: The National Archives of the UK (TNA)

A selection of material relating to the Northern Irish Peace Process scanned at The National Archives. The files are mainly taken from the CJ 4 series (Northern Ireland Office records) and the PREM series (Office of the Prime Minister records)....

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Writing Peace: Treaties and Agreements

This collection of treaties, agreements, legislation, and joint statements relating to the status of Northern Ireland was commissioned by ARINS. The primary source materials in this resource collection were compiled by Harriet Carter and Ruth...

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Writing Peace: UVA Miller Center Presidential Oral Histories

Curated links into the UVU Miller Center Presidential Oral Histories, highlighting interviews of relevance to the peace process in Ireland.

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Writing Peace: John Alderdice Collection

From the mid-1980s, John, now Lord, Alderdice, was intimately involved in the Irish peace process. His archive spans more than thirty years of negotiation and implementation, from his early days in the Alliance Party in the 1980s, through his...

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