Given Senator George Mitchell’s role as the Obama Administration’s Middle East envoy, and given his previous role as the Chairman of the Northern Ireland peace talks, which lead to the Belfast Agreement in 1998, there has been much talk about comparisons between the two conflicts.
In 2008, the US-Ireland Alliance marked the tenth anniversary of the Belfast Agreement with a symposium in Northern Ireland which brought together the major players to discuss their achievement, tens years later. The entire symposium was recorded and if you’d like to see and hear what they had to say, click on this link.
http://www.us-irelandalliance.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=800
Participants in the symposium were:
Davy Adams
Gerry Adams
Bertie Ahern
John Alderdice
David Andrews
John de Chastelain
Mark Durkan
Sir Reg Empey
John Hume
Monica McWilliams
George Mitchell
Paul Murphy
Liz O’Donnell
Dawn Purvis
