Jonathan Powell, Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland Ten years on from the Good Friday Agreement, Tony Blair's chief negotiator on Northern Ireland, looks back at events and asks why, after hundreds of years of conflict, the moment was right in 1998 to make peace.
1. BBC Radio 4 Stop the Week, Monday, 31 March 2008 New - 02/04/2008 Jonathan Powell talks about his book and the peace process with Andrew Marr, Misha Glenny, Mark Ravenhill and Maggie Gee (12 mins 56 secs- 2.96MB).
http://cid-1c89246df096624a.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Stop|_The|_Week|_Peace|_Process.mp3 (Please contact IiS in case of difficulty.)
2. Extracts and commentaries in The Guardian New - 27/03/2008
http://iisresource.org/Documents/Powell_Making_Peace.htm
'Editor's picks' a. Revealed: Blair's offer to meet masked IRA leaders http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/mar/17/northernireland.peaceprocess1 b. A moment in history: sitting down to talk with Adams and McGuinness
Tony Blair's first meetings with Sinn Féin's leaders in Belfast and in London were characterised by nerves and misunderstandings on both sides http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/mar/17/northernireland.peaceprocess c. 'Adams and McGuinness were nervous'
Part one of Jonathan Powell's interview with the Guardian's Nick Watt about his book Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/audio/2008/mar/17/watt.powell.part1 |