- Tuesday, 07 April 1998, at 00:30
Session 16444: 1998-04-07 00:30:00
Early on Tuesday morning, the NIWC, along with the other parties to the All-Party Negotiations, received a copy of what became known as the 'Mitchell Draft'; the first incarnation of the Good Friday Agreement, drawn up by the Independent Chairmen and pulling together proposals that the parties had tabled and discussed over the previous two years. This session has been created to model a fax they received from NIACRO recommending amendments to the ‘Prisoners’ section of the draft. The NIWC incorporated these amendments into their working version of the document and added a few more of their own.
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 construction.
Prisoners Section of Mitchell Draft
This mini-model has been created to represent a section of the Monica McWilliams collection relating to amendments to the 'Prisoners' section of the 6th/7th April Mitchell Draft. Although, unlike the NIWC text on victims being worked up in parallel, these particular amendments did not make it into the Good Friday Agreement, they do provide one small snapshot of the frenetic markup and re-drafting process that took place within the party offices after the late (and late night) appearance of the draft agreement. The NIWC's commitment to broadening participation in democracy was at the heart of their version of this process, and this model demonstrates how amendments emerged in dialogue with experts from NIACRO, a voluntary organization working to reduce crime and re-offending. It is also interesting to note that the two-year timeline set for prisoner release in the final draft of the agreement accords with the recommendation made by NIACRO and the amendment proposed by the NIWC.
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