Quill Project

Throughout the platform round icons are events relating to individuals and their right to have an opinion in particular debates:

Person joining a committee

Person leaving a committee

Person elected to a position

Roll-call

Parchment-coloured, square icons relate to the creation and amending of documents:

Create a new proposal

Create a new document that is a line-by-line revision of another document (noted by the pen icon in the corner)

Document amendment proposed

Document taken from another committee (note arrow in corner)

Amendment taken from another committee

Debate a proposal

Documents that have an explicit subtype can be displayed with a slightly different icon:

Legislative text

Formal Resolutions

A message to be sent elsewhere

A petition to be considered

Rules and Orders of Business

Diamond-shaped, purple icons relate to decisions taken:

Drop a proposal

Refer a proposal to another committee

Adopt a proposal

Other vote (continue debate)

Reject a proposal

Postpone a debate

Blue, hexagon-shaped icons relate to 'procedural' proposals that do not directly alter text but affect how a committee does its work (and are usually used only for transient things, such as a point of order.)

Procedural motion

Procedural motion with sub-decisions

Debate on a procedural motion

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 out, amongst other recommendations, a list of principles which all parties signed up to as the basis for the talks.

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Alliance

This is one of the 12 delegations in the convention, accounting for 2 of 24 people who took part.

Members (2):

Name	Visualize	Details	Delegations
John Alderdice	Visualize	Baron John Thomas Alderdice. Born 28 March 1955. Leader of the Alliance party from 1987-1998. He was a delegate for East Belfast at the Northern Ireland Forum for Political Dialogue. As party leader, he was an Alliance delegate to the 1996-1998 multi-party talks, and a member of the negotiating team. He was the Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1998-2004. Alderdice has been a member of the House of Lords since 1996 as a Liberal Democrat.	Alliance (Northern Ireland Forum for Political Dialogue) , Alliance (Northern Ireland All-Party Talks June 1996 - April 1998) , Alliance (This negotiation) , Alliance (Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992)
Nicholas Whyte	Visualize	Dr Nicholas Whyte; PhD. Alliance delegate to the 1996-1998 multi-party talks. Party Organiser and Director of Elections, 1993-96.	Alliance (This negotiation) , Alliance (Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992)