Essay Plan with web links
- 2. Parades http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/northern_ireland/understanding/themes/marching_parades.stm Progress 2007 Loyalist band cancels city parade in interests of peace. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7105627.stm Drumcree Parade passes peacefully http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6281570.stm A contentious Orange Order parade in the Whiterock area of west Belfast has passed off peacefully http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6256616.stm Orangemen have said they are prepared to meet face-to-face with the Garvaghy Road Residents to try to resolve the Drumcree dispute. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6224064.stm Lord Ashdown meets with Martin McGuinness Sinn Fein and Ian Paisley, to discuss peaceful parades. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6679077.stm 2006 Orange Order 'prepared to talk' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6189595.stm March dialogue 'the way forward' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6082492.stm
- 3. Decommissioning of Weapons http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/northern_ireland/understanding/themes/decommissioning.stm Progress Nationalist There is growing confidence the IRA has decommissioned http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/5373786.stm The police have no intelligence to suggest the IRA is returning to its armed Campaign http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4672700.stm The IRA has put all of its weapons beyond use, the head of the arms decommissioning body has said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4283444.stm Loyalist Loyalist paramilitaries must decommission to prove they are serious about ending violence, the Northern Ireland secretary has said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7081893.stm The Ulster Freedom Fighters, agree to end armed campaign. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7089310.stm Loyalist weapons have been destroyed in a move overseen by the international decommissioning body http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7074908.stm The UVF has met with General John de Chastelain's international arms body for the first time in almost four years. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6618475.stm
- 4. Stormont and Representation Stormont timeline showing problems and how they have been overcome http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/2952997.stm Opposition to the St Andrew's Agreement is a minority http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6265671.stm Problems and successes in making Stormont happen http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6194973.stm Stormont ¨C Devolved Parliament Building Devolved Northern Ireland Assembly ¨C A regional parliament for NI where the representatives of NI could make decisions for the region. Both Unionists and Nationalists want this to happen as it will give them more of a say over their affairs. Although it had been suspended from 2002 ¨C March 2007 because Poilitical Parties could not agree on the most basic issues and would not even agree to discuss issues with the other side. St Andrew¡¯s Agreement ¨C Agreement made between GB and Eire govts and Sinn Fein and the DUP where all parties agreed that if the couldn¡¯t to discuss the issues and sign up to basic requirements Stormont would not restart. The deadline for this was March 2007
- 5. Crime and Violence http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/2225562.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/northern_ireland/understanding/themes/punishment_beatings.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4250000/newsid_4254000/4254067.stm Progress Efforts to cut hate crime praised http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6263427.stm NI murder rate lowest in 20 years http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6340825.stm The police's record on crime rates and detections in NI has been defended by Chief Constable http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4966510.stm Northern Ireland is a safer place to live than England and Wales http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4272758.stm
- 6. Trust and the Police Questions and answers about how and why the Police and Policing in Northern Ireland have changed. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/ruc_reform/610393.stm Interviews with people in NI about whether they think Policing has improved. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4445619.stm Progress 'New era' as NI police change name http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/1636780.stm Sinn Fein members have voted to support policing in Northern Ireland for the first time in the party's history. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6308175.stm Almost 80% of people in Northern Ireland say they have confidence in the PSNI a new survey has indicated. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6195341.stm changes for NI police http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/1911817.stm Northern Ireland's police chief has said the target of 50:50 recruitment of Catholics and Protestants to the province's new police service is being achieved. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/1540861.stm PSNI ¨C The New Police Force of NI. The name changed in 1991 from the RUC to attract more Nationalists/Catholics. They now have to accept 50:50 ratio of Catholics:Protestants RUC ¨C The Royal Ulster Constabulary. Police Force of NI over the last 80 years. Not trusted by Catholics/Nationalists as most members were Protestants and Unionists.
- 7. Glossary Nationalist/Republicans ¨C Want NI to break away from Britain Unionist/Loyalist ¨C Want NI to stay part of Britain IRA - Nationalist Terrorist Group UVF ¨C Unionist Terrorist Group UFF - Unionist Terrorist Group UDA - Unionist Terrorist Group Orange Order ¨C Group that tries to keep Unionist traditions alive by marching through the streets of NI this often causes trouble as they sing/chant Anti-Catholic songs, chants and slogans. DUP ¨C Largest Unionist Party. Strong Unionist beliefs, headed by Ian Paisley. UUP - Unionist Party Sinn Fein ¨C Nationalist Party. Strong Nationalist beliefs with links to the IRA, headed by Gerry Adams and Martin McGuiness SDLP ¨C Nationalist Party. More Moderate than Sinn Fein