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Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993)

This project models the 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 Declaration was a critical policy document which paved the way for a ceasefire and the entry of Sinn Féin into formal talks. It also laid out a shared set of principles – including, crucially, self-determination for the people of Ireland subject to the consent of the people of Northern Ireland – which would come to underpin the Belfast Good Friday Agreement and provide a framework for its ratification.

Cite as: Ian McBride, Ruth Murray, Annabel Harris, and Nicholas P. S. Cole, Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Quill Project at Pembroke College (Oxford, 2024).

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13 historical records used for this dataset.

Process:

27 committees met in 493 sessions. Average 37.92307692307692 sessions each.

Dates from Friday, 01 May 1987 to Wednesday, 15 December 1993.

Person icon People:

112 people in 8 voting delegations.

Top 5 most active people are:

Summary of person events:

  • 356 Person join icon join a committee.
  • 185 Person leave icon leave a committee.
  • Person elect icon elections to a position.

Procedure icon Procedures:

509 procedural motions considered.

Summary of procedural events:

  • 509 Procedural motion icon procedural motion proposed.
  • 315 Debate motion icon motions debated.

Document icon Documents:

177 documents considered with 403 amendments presented.

Summary of document events:

  • 177 Create a new document proposal new documents created.
  • 242 Document copied documents passed from another committee.
  • 374 Document amended amendments to a document proposed.
  • 455 Debate a document proposal debates on a proposal.

Voting icon Decisions:

884 number of decisions made.

Summary of decision made:

  • 398 Vote adopt icon proposals adopted.
  • 92 Vote reject icon proposals rejected.
  • 205 Vote refer icon proposals referred to another committee.
  • 27 Postpone debate icon debate of a proposal postponed.
  • 47 Vote drop icon proposal dropped from discussion without a formal vote.
  • 35 Vote drop icon some other decision on a proposal.

List of proposals by delegation

List of proposals by person