Northern Ireland and Colombian Peace Accords: Insights on Negotiations, Design, and Implementation

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Featuring Eamon Gilmore, Special Representative for Human Rights and the Special Envoy for the Peace Process in Colombia, European Union. Two comprehensive peace accords have greatly influenced frameworks for policy, research, and practice in the past decades: the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement, signed in 1998 between the Government of the United Kingdom and the Government of Ireland, and the 2016 Final Peace Accord signed between the Government of Colombia and the former FARC-EP guerrillas. Both agreements ended deeply-rooted armed conflicts and, despite difficulties, have withstood manifold tensions, from their processes of negotiation and approval through upheaval in their implementation in the midst of changing political landscapes. During this webinar, Eamon Gilmore delivered a keynote address examining the status of the Irish and Colombian peacebuilding processes and exploring options for overcoming threats to peace implementation. R. Scott Appleby, Marilyn Keough Dean, Keough School of Global Affairs, offered opening remarks prior to the keynote address.
The following speakers provided comments following Mr. Gilmore’s keynote address:
-Josefina Echavarría Alvarez, Director, Peace Accords Matrix, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
-Patrick Griffin, Director, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies; Madden-Hennebry Professor of History
-Laurie Nathan, Director, Mediation Program; Professor of the Practice, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
-Etain Tannam, Associate Professor, International Peace Studies, Trinity College Dublin
Moderator: David Cortright, Director of the Global Policy Initiative; Special Advisor for Policy Studies; and Professor Emeritus of the Practice, Keough School of Global Affairs