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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.

Cite as: Harriet Carter, Ruth Murray, Ian McBride and Nicholas P. S. Cole, Northern Ireland International Body on Arms Decommissioning 1995-1996, Quill Project at Pembroke College (Oxford, 2025).

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Date	Time	Committee / External Event	Description
Friday, August 1, 1800 \| 0 sessions \| 2 external events
1800-08-01	N/A	Union with Ireland Act	One of the two parallel Acts of Union 1800 which united the Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Prior to the Act, the two kingdoms existed in personal union. When the Act came into force on 1 January 1801 it dissolved the old Irish Parliament and created an amalgamated Parliament, with an Irish minority, at Westminster. The Act remained in force until the Government of Ireland Act (1920) when Ireland was partitioned.
1800-08-01	N/A	Act of Union (Ireland)	One of the two parallel Acts of Union 1800 which united the Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Prior to the Act, the two kingdoms existed in personal union. When the Act came into force on 1 January 1801 it dissolved the old Irish Parliament and created an amalgamated Parliament, with an Irish minority, at Westminster. The Act remained in force until the Government of Ireland Act (1920) when Ireland was partitioned.
Monday, August 1, 1870 \| 0 sessions \| 1 external events
1870-08-01	N/A	The Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act	This Act was published under the liberal government of William Gladstone in 1870 with a goal being to provide some safeguards to Irish tenant farmers and give legal force to the Ulster custom of tenure.
Tuesday, May 18, 1886 \| 0 sessions \| 1 external events
1886-05-18	N/A	(1886) The Home Rule Bill	The Home Rule Bill granted Ireland limited self-rule within the British Empire, with the UK Parliament maintaining sovereignty over an Irish parliament and executive based in Dublin. Irish representation in the Westminster Parliament would end.
Friday, September 18, 1914 \| 0 sessions \| 1 external events
1914-09-18	N/A	Government of Ireland Act 1914: An Act to Amend the Provision for the Government of Ireland	Also known as the Home Rule Act, this Act provided for a devolved government in Ireland. It was first introduced in 1912 and debated in Parliament for two years before passing. However, on the same day it was given Royal Assent, a Suspensory Act was passed, formally suspending the Government of Ireland Act for twelve months due to the outbreak of WWI. Following the Easter Rising 1916 and the Irish Civil War, the Government of Ireland Act was further postponed and never came into effect. It was superseded in 1920 by the Government of Ireland Act, 1920, and in turn, the Anglo-Irish treaty in 1921 and the partition of Ireland into Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State.
Monday, April 24, 1916 \| 0 sessions \| 1 external events
1916-04-24	N/A	Proclamation of the Irish Republic	The 'Proclamation of the Republic' on Easter Monday, 24th of April 1916, was a 'formal assertion of the Irish Republic as a sovereign, independent state, and also a declaration of rights'.
Thursday, December 23, 1920 \| 0 sessions \| 1 external events
1920-12-23	N/A	Government of Ireland Act 1920: an Act to Provide for the Better Government of Ireland	Also known as the Fourth Home Rule Bill, this Act was passed amidst the Irish War of Independence. The Act repealed the Government of Ireland Act 1914 and granted Home Rule to Ireland by establishing two devolved parliaments, one seated in Dublin for Southern Ireland, and one seated in Belfast for Northern Ireland. It also provided for a Council of Ireland. The Government of Ireland Act, 1920 commenced on 3 May 1921. The first Parliament of Northern Ireland formed in June 1921, but in Southern Ireland, where Dáil Members supported independence, only 4 of the 128 parliamentary members showed up to the opening session; the new legislature was suspended. The Act was superseded by the establishment of the Anglo-Irish Treaty signed in December that year and which provided for an Irish Free State, today the Republic of Ireland.
Tuesday, December 6, 1921 \| 0 sessions \| 1 external events
1921-12-06	N/A	Anglo-Irish Treaty: Articles of Agreement for a Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland	Also known as An Conradh Angla-Éireannach, the Anglo-Irish Treaty (officially the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty Between Great Britain and Ireland), was an agreement between the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and representatives of the Irish Republic. Its signing concluded the Irish War of Independence. The Treaty provided for the establishment of the Irish Free State as a self-governing dominion within the "community of nations known as the British Empire", the same as that of the Dominion of Canada. It also provided that Northern Ireland, created by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, had the right to opt out of the Irish Free State.
Thursday, November 6, 1924 \| 0 sessions \| 2 external events
1924-11-06	N/A	Irish Boundary Commission, 1924-1925	"The Irish Boundary Commission was set up to determine the boundary between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. It met for the first time on 6 November 1924. [...] The final report of the Commission, completed in November 1925, was never published, after disagreements about its recommendations led to the resignation of the Irish Commissioner. As a result, no alterations were made to the border."
1924-11-06	N/A	Irish Boundary Commission, 1924-1925	"The Irish Boundary Commission was set up to determine the boundary between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. It met for the first time on 6 November 1924. [...] The final report of the Commission, completed in November 1925, was never published, after disagreements about its recommendations led to the resignation of the Irish Commissioner. As a result, no alterations were made to the border."

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Negotiation Statistics

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3 historical records used for this dataset.

Process

2 committees met in 25 sessions.

Average 8.33 sessions each.

Dates

Dates from Wednesday, 15 February 1995 to Monday, 22 January 1996.

People

24 people in 12 voting delegations.

Top 5 most active people are:

Harri Holkeri (27 events)
George Mitchell (27 events)
John de Chastelain (26 events)
The Staff (6 events)
David Roman Pozorski (0 events)

Summary of person events:

4 join a committee.
leave a committee.
elections to a position.

Procedures

procedural motions considered.

Summary of procedural events:

procedural motion proposed.
motions debated.

Documents

1 documents considered with 27 amendments presented.

Summary of document events:

1 new documents created.
documents passed from another committee.
27 amendments to a document proposed.
3 debates on a proposal.

Decisions

28 number of decisions made.

Summary of decision made:

26 proposals adopted.
1 proposals rejected.
1 proposals referred to another committee.
debate of a proposal postponed.
proposal dropped from discussion without a formal vote.
some other decision on a proposal.

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