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This page lets you explore the way that a document is negotiated.

Along the top of this page are the events that occurred in this committee session.

If you select an event here, the display underneath will provide the following information:

On the left are lists of the current documents under consideration by the committee at this moment
and all of the amendments to these documents that have been suggested. Clicking on these will bring up
the draft text of that amendment or document, if it can be calculated, as it exists in the context of this
moment.

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amendment or the affect of a particular vote. The tabs let you select either the agreed text of the
base document (the 'agreed text'), the text of any intermediate amendments (the 'intermediate text')
that are the parents of this one (these may or may not have been agreed) and the text suggested by the
selected proposal.

The 'Markup' display shows the difference between the intermediate text and the proposed text by showing deletions
in red highlighting with a strike-through and additions as blue highlights with underlining.

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show you a representation of all of the proposals and votes that have led to the document having this particular
text. You can click on them to navigate to those moments.

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We have created this mini-model for Professor Christopher McCrudden's presentation to the Agreement 25 Conference at Queen's University, Belfast. It tracks how documents produced by various parties over a number of years contributed to a small section of text. By clicking on the document icon at the bottom of the timeline, you can see the text of the documents in their entirety and compare them to their 'ancestors'; when you click on the amendment icons above, you can see how they each propose to alter the text that eventually became the Human Rights section of the Good Friday Agreement. Nb: Since in this mini-model, as opposed to in our main projects, we are presenting only these documents rather than everything tabled during the course of a negotiation, we have decided to model them all in one session, using the date of the Agreement, so that the model is easier to navigate.

Cite as: Christopher McCrudden, Annabel Harris, Ruth Murray, Ian McBride and Nicholas P. S. Cole, Northern Ireland Mini-Models , Quill Project at Pembroke College (Oxford, 2024), Session 16452.

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