Dealing with the past; Haass talks; Northern Ireland Executive

After Haass, the numbers game threatens. How can we avoid it?

Brian Walker on January 6, 2014, 6:40 pm

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Ed Curran was right to tweak his old bête noire BBC N Ireland for allowing Nolan the day off on Boxing Day instead of going live on Haass. Or was he? Were you all better off without Nolan’s bear baiting over the cold turkey even if you were home alone on the day? Even though desperate for content over the silly holiday season, the national UK media virtually ignored the Haass talks breakdown. What coverage there was – and still is – …

From Arkiv to Haaas. A way out of the deadlock for dealing with the past

Brian Walker on October 30, 2013, 10:36 am

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It’s heart warming to find some of the ideas I’ve been grappling with being taken forward with real authority and integrity. As reported in the Newsletter a firm and positive set of proposals for dealing with the past has been submitted to the Haass talks by a group of historians calling themselves Arkiv. The idea that dealing with the past is a task that can be agreed and dispatched within a given period is not simply an insult to the …