{"id":131657,"date":"2019-04-22T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=131657"},"modified":"2019-04-16T10:22:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T09:22:06","slug":"the-good-friday-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/04\/the-good-friday-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good Friday Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former US Senator George Mitchell played a crucial role as mediator in helping bring about a peace settlement between representatives of the Northern Irish Protestants and Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Catholic Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland. He presided over many sessions, for a long time without much progress.<\/p>\n

One day, when he arrived, he sang an old hit song by Frank Sinatra. Those present asked him in surprise, “Why did you do that?”<\/em> He explained, \u201cBecause whenever I come here, I hear the same old songs over and over again.” <\/em><\/p>\n

The parties got the message and realized that this way they could not make any progress. That day they worked harder to hammer out an agreement and reached the Good Friday Agreement<\/em> on 10 April 1998.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/em>Dietrich Fischer (1941-2015) from M\u00fcnsingen, Switzerland, got a Licentiate in Mathematics from the University of Bern 1968 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University 1976. 1986-88 he was a MacArthur Fellow in International Peace and Security at Princeton University. He has taught mathematics, computer science, economics and peace studies at various universities and been a consultant to the United Nations. He was co-founder, with Johan Galtung, of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a> in 1993<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Excerpted from Dietrich Fischer’s <\/em>Stories to Inspire You<\/a> – TRANSCEND University Press-TUP<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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