- Northern Ireland Forum for Political Dialogue Summary Statistics
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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.
Cite as: Isabel Fleming, Ruth Murray, Harriet Carter, Ian McBride and Nicholas P. S. Cole, Northern Ireland Forum for Political Dialogue, Quill Project at Pembroke College (Oxford, 2024).
Summary View
A summary view for the full record of the convention
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Sources:
11 historical records used for this dataset.
Process:
9 committees met in 207 sessions. Average 18.818181818181817 sessions each.
Dates from Friday, 14 June 1996 to Friday, 24 April 1998.
People:
164 people in 12 voting delegations.
Top 5 most active people are:
- John Gorman (1072 events)
- Ian Paisley (360 events)
- Hugh Smyth (202 events)
- Peter Robinson (195 events)
- Ian Paisley Jr (139 events)
Summary of person events:
- 232
join a committee. - 10
leave a committee. - 14
elections to a position.
Procedures:
836 procedural motions considered.
Summary of procedural events:
- 836
procedural motion proposed. - 672
motions debated.
Documents:
204 documents considered with 213 amendments presented.
Summary of document events:
- 204
new documents created. - 205
documents passed from another committee. - 213
amendments to a document proposed. - 1240
debates on a proposal.
Decisions:
1301 number of decisions made.
Summary of decision made:
- 665
proposals adopted. - 81
proposals rejected. - 199
proposals referred to another committee. - 39
debate of a proposal postponed. - 104
proposal dropped from discussion without a formal vote. - 12
some other decision on a proposal.