Twenty-second Report of the Independent Monitoring Commission

Twenty-second Report of the Independent Monitoring Commission
Author: Independent Monitoring Commission (Northern Ireland)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2009
Genre:
ISBN: 9780102962703

This report focusses on the six-month period from 1 March 2009 to 31 August 2009. The Continuity IRA and the Real IRA remain active and extremely dangerous, with a continuing high level of serious violent activity which is the highest since the Commission started to report in 2004. The report also highlights evidence that recruitment to these organisations has increased. The groups are also involved in other criminal activity such as drug dealing, kidnapping, extortion and smuggling and fuel laundering. The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) has announced (on 11 October 2009, outside the period of this report) that its armed struggle was over. The Provisional IRA has maintained its political course. The mainstream UDA has decommissioned a quantity of weapons, an important step. The Commission believes the UDA South East Antrim group is now quite separate from the mainstream UDA: it is also committed to decommissioning but progress is very slow. The UVF has also decommissioned some weapons and made major progress, though some members are still involved in criminal activity for personal gain.

Twenty-first Report of the Independent Monitoring Commission

Twenty-first Report of the Independent Monitoring Commission
Author: Independent Monitoring Commission
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2009
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780102959673

This report focusses on the six-month period from 1 September 2008 to 28 February 2009. The murders of two British soldiers in Antrim, just after the report period, confirmed the finding that dissident republican movements - particularly Continuity IRA and the Real IRA - remain a major danger to peace, with a continuing high level of serious violent activity detailed in this report. All the groups are also involved in other ciminal activity such as drug dealing, kidnapping, extortion and smuggling and fuel laundering. The loyalist paramilitaries showed less activity, with the mainstream UDA now needing to address urgently the issue of decommissioning of weapons before the protection of the decommissioning legislation is lifted (by February 2010 at the latest).The UVF appears to be continuing to run down though some members are still involved in criminal activity for personal gain.

Twenty-fifth report of the Independent Monitoring Commission

Twenty-fifth report of the Independent Monitoring Commission
Author: Independent Monitoring Commission
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2010-11-04
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780102969306

This report focuses mainly on paramilitiary activity in the six month period 1 March to 31 August 2010. Dissident republican groups continued to pose a substantial and potentially lethal threat, especially to the security forces. They are also held to be responsible for several outbreaks of disorder, involving hijacking and burning of vehicles. On the Loyalist side, most groups were not engaged in terrorist activity though there is still evidence of heavy involvement in serious criminal activity.

Dissident Irish Republicanism

Dissident Irish Republicanism
Author: Max Taylor
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2011-07-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 144113221X

This collection of papers examines the current rise in violence by Dissident Irish Republicans and its impact on the Northern Ireland Peace Process.

Peace Without Consensus

Peace Without Consensus
Author: Mary-Alice C. Clancy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2016-05-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317082788

'Peace Without Consensus' demonstrates that the rise of Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) was not 'inevitable'. Rather, it argues that critics who blame Northern Ireland's power-sharing institutions for the electoral triumph of the political 'extremes' in 2003 have not fully considered how the US, British and Irish governments contributed to this outcome. Through interviews with key US, British and Irish officials this groundbreaking analysis, which represents the first examination of the Bush administration's vital role in the peace process, demonstrates that Washington and Dublin were considering a deal between the DUP and Sinn Féin as early as 2002. Profiled in the Guardian, the Observer, BBC Radio Four, the Irish Independent and in Henry McDonald's 'Gunsmoke and Mirrors', Mary-Alice C. Clancy's theoretically informed and empirically grounded book presents new and salient lessons for other regions embroiled in conflict and should be read by all those interested in Northern Ireland's peace process and US foreign policy.

Inside the IRA

Inside the IRA
Author: Andrew Sanders
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2011-12-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0748688129

The Irish Republican movement was one of the most significant revolutionary movements of the twentieth century. This book focuses on the issue of republican splits, which created the Provisional and Official republican movements, and the subsequent develo

Spoiling the peace?

Spoiling the peace?
Author: Sophie Whiting
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2015-07-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0719098688

This book assesses the security threat and political challenges offered by dissident Irish republicanism to the Northern Irish peace process. Dissident republicanism ranges from those who consider armed struggle to be an essential element of any republican campaign to political reformers and campaign groups. The book charts the divisions in republicanism following the evolution of Sinn Féin into constitutional politics, leaving a rump of ‘militants’. Using in-depth interviews and access to a range of organisations it has been possible to explore the origins, strategy and goals of the various strands of republicanism evident in Northern Ireland today. This book considers the impact of various dissident groupings and their tactics within a post-Good Friday Agreement context and places armed republicanism in Northern Ireland within the broader debate on counter-terrorism after 9/11.

The Work of the Committee in Session 2008-09

The Work of the Committee in Session 2008-09
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Northern Ireland Affairs Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2009
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780215542670

work of the Committee in Session 2008-09 : First report of session 2009-10, report, together with formal Minutes