Throughout the platform round icons are events relating to individuals and their right to have an opinion in particular debates:
Person joining a committee
Person leaving a committee
Person elected to a position
Roll-call
Parchment-coloured, square icons relate to the creation and amending of documents:
Create a new proposal
Create a new document that is a line-by-line revision of another document (noted by the pen icon in the corner)
Document amendment proposed
Document taken from another committee (note arrow in corner)
Amendment taken from another committee
Debate a proposal
Documents that have an explicit subtype can be displayed with a slightly different icon:
Legislative text
Formal Resolutions
A message to be sent elsewhere
A petition to be considered
Rules and Orders of Business
Diamond-shaped, purple icons relate to decisions taken:
Drop a proposal
Refer a proposal to another committee
Adopt a proposal
Other vote (continue debate)
Reject a proposal
Postpone a debate
Blue, hexagon-shaped icons relate to 'procedural' proposals that do not directly alter text but affect how a committee does its work (and are usually used only for transient things, such as a point of order.)
Procedural motion
Procedural motion with sub-decisions
Debate on a procedural motion
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This project models the series of formal and informal negotiations which led to the publication, in December 1993, of a declaration issued jointly by the British and Irish Governments. The Joint Declaration was a critical policy document which paved the way for a ceasefire and the entry of Sinn Féin into formal talks. It also laid out a shared set of principles—including, crucially, self-determination for the people of Ireland subject to the consent of the people of Northern Ireland—which would come to underpin the Good Friday Agreement and provide a framework for its ratification.
This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between John Hume and Gerry Adams, along with the bilateral meetings which took place between the SDLP and Sinn Féin.
To see the full record of a committee, click on the corresponding committee on the map below.
The list of documents under consideration by committee: Hume-Adams at the end of its timeline.
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Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Date: 11 Jan 1988, 12:00
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Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Date: 17 Mar 1988, 12:00
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Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Date: 19 Mar 1988, 12:00
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Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Date: 19 Mar 1988, 12:00
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Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Date: 19 May 1988, 12:00
Sinn Fein on National Self-determination and a Proposal on Joint Action on Fair Employment
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Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Date: 19 May 1988, 12:00
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Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Date: 13 Jun 1988, 12:00
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Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Date: 13 Jun 1988, 12:00
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Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Date: 13 Jun 1988, 12:00
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Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Date: 11 Jul 1988, 12:01
SDLP Response to Questions Raised in Discussions and in Previous Sinn Fein Papers
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Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Date: 14 Aug 1988, 12:00
Letter of Review from Gerry Adams to John Hume on 14 August 1988
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Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Date: 23 Apr 1993, 12:00
Hume/Adams Statement (23 April 1993)
People: John Hume Gerry Adams
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Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Date: 28 Nov 1990, 12:00
An alternative strategy to violence
People: Gerry Adams
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Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Date: 20 Feb 1992, 12:00
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Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Date: 20 Feb 1992, 12:00
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Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Date: 22 Sep 1993, 12:00
People: John Hume Gerry Adams
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Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Date: 22 Sep 1993, 12:00
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Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Date: 25 Sep 1993, 12:00
Hume-Adams Statement (25 September 1993)
People: John Hume Gerry Adams
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Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Date: 25 Sep 1993, 12:00
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Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Date: 25 Sep 1993, 12:00
People: John Hume Gerry Adams
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Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Date: 25 Sep 1993, 12:00
We agreed to forward a report on the position reached to date to Dublin for consideration.