Download or read book Nineteenth Report of the Independent Monitoring Commission written by Independent Monitoring Commission and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ad hoc report is the response to a request from the British and Irish governments for a fuller assessment of the completion of the transformation of the Provisional IRA (PIRA). In July 2005 PIRA formally announced the end of its armed campaign and instructed its volunteers to cease all activities and to commit to exclusively peaceful means to pursue its objectives. In September 2005 it decommissioned its weapons. There have been further changes and developments since then: the decision of Sinn Fâin to support policing and the criminal justice system; Sinn Fâin's entry into the Northern Ireland Executive in May 2007; the number of people making the transition from PIRA to Sinn Fâin. The Commission firmly believes the PIRA is set on and will remain on the political path and does not represent a threat to peace or democratic politics. PIRA, as an organisation, no longer does what it used to do, and by design it is being allowed to wither away. The way in which its leadership has changed the nature of the organisation makes it highly unlikely that PIRA will ever re-emerge as a terrorist organisation. PIRA has completely relinquished the leadership and other structures appropriate to a time of armed conflict.
Download or read book Thirteenth Report of the Independent Monitoring Commission written by Independent Monitoring Commission and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-30 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports by the Independent Monitoring Commission into paramilitary activities in Northern Ireland are normally produced at six monthly intervals. However, in light of the St Andrews Agreement of October 2006 and subsequent developments, the Commission was asked to produce an additional report at this time. The report focuses on the three month period September to November 2006, and the Commission's findings include that there remains a very clear distinction between the position of the leadership of Sinn Fâin and the Provisional IRA on the one hand, and loyalists paramilitary groups on the other. The leadership of Sinn Fâin remains committed to the strategy of pursuing a political path and the decision of the party's Ard Fheis to support policing and the criminal justice system was a very significant development. Although there have been some signs of progress amongst loyalist groups, with efforts being made by some amongst the leaderships to move towards community involvement and democratic politics, progress has been patchy and there remains a long path still to be trodden.
Download or read book Fourteenth Report of the Independent Monitoring Commission written by Independent Monitoring Commission and published by . This book was released on 2007-03-12 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the Commission's third report on the security normalisation programme, under the provisions of article 5 (1) of the International Agreement. The report covers the period from 1 August 2006 to 31 January 2007 and it concludes that the provisions of the security normalisation programme have been met in relation to military support to the police, changes to the police estate and new patrolling patterns. It also notes progress regarding the reduction in the number of military bases and number of troops in Northern Ireland. Further action is required in relation to the repeal of counter-terrorist legislation particular to Northern Ireland, and the process of change has already been started via the Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Bill (HC Bill 10, session 2006-07, ISBN 9780215707956) currently going through Parliament.
Download or read book Sixteenth report of the Independent Monitoring Commission written by Independent Monitoring Commission and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth and final report from the Independent Monitoring Commission on the progress made in the two year programme of security normalisation begun in August 2005. The monitoring is undertaken in the light of two considerations: an assessment of the paramilitary threat, and the British Government's obligation to ensure the safety and security of the community as a whole. The Commission believes the Provisional IRA is committed to the political path and has abandoned terrorism and violence. Dissident republican groups, however, continue to pose a threat to both the security forces and the community at large. Loyalist paramilitaries do not pose a threat, though the Commission notes that the UDA has made no progress in decommissioning weapons. The security normalisation is examined under several headings: the use of military in support of the Police Service of Northern Ireland; the repeal of counter-terrorist legislation particular to Northern Ireland; the police estate; and patterns of police patrolling. Of particular note is the fact that, for the second year running, the parades of 12 July were policed without the need for military assistance. Various annexes detail the closure of towers, observation posts, and military bases, and the monthly troop levels and military helicopter use in Northern Ireland over the two year period. Overall, the Commission finds that the requirements of the programme have been met.
Download or read book Seventeenth Report of the Independent Monitoring Commission written by Independent Monitoring Commission and published by Stationery Office Books (TSO). This book was released on 2007-11-07 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report on the continuing activities of paramilitary groups focuses mainly on the six month period 1 March to 31 August 2007. With the decommissioning of arms by the Provisional IRA, and the entry of Sinn Fein into government in Northern Ireland, the report contains less than normal on PIRA which appears fully committed to the political path. The Commission finds that several dissident republican groups remain involved in serious criminal activity, and are capable of greater levels of violent and other crime. The picture with loyalist groups is mixed. Encouragingly, the Ulster Volunteer Force has announced its intention to renounce violence and transform itself from a military to a civilian organisation, and the signs are that this process is under way. The Ulster Defence Association, on the other hand, has been responsible for the bulk of loyalist assaults and other criminal activity. It is also an organisation experiencing internal turbulence, with a number of confrontations between the leadership and so-called breakaway factions. The report also contains statistics on the incidence of violence.
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Download or read book Fifteenth Report of the Independent Monitoring Commission written by Independent Monitoring Commission and published by . This book was released on 2007-04-25 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report on the current activities and state of preparedness of paramilitary groups contains new material for the three months 1 December 2006 to 28 February 2007. Of the republican groups, Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA) the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) and the Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA) are held still to be a threat, but the Provisional IRA is regarded as committed to following a political strategy. The loyalist organisations, the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF), the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and the Red Hand Commando (RHC) have engaged in criminal, but not terrorist, activities. The Commission exhorts the UDA and UVF to make significant moves on arms decommissioning. Statistics on the incidence of violence and exiling are reported: there were no paramilitary murders, and the overall number of casualties of both shootings and assaults has again fallen significantly.
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Download or read book Twentieth Report of the Independent Monitoring Commission written by Independent Monitoring Commission and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report on the continuing activities of paramilitary groups focuses mainly on the six month period 1 September 2007 to 29 February 2008. Of the republican groups, the Commission finds that âgliagh nâireann (ONH), Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA), Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) and the Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA) remain involved in serious crime and violence, and are still a threat. The Provisional Irish republican Army (PIRA), as reported in the Commission's last two reports, is committed to an exclusively political path. Of the loyalist groups, the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) is involved in criminal activity with no political purpose; the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) is still a split organisation, with some members heavily involved in violent and serious crime, with no progress towards decommissioning of weapons; the breakaway South East Antrim Group of the UDA is now effectively a separate organisation and is pursuing a policy of community engagement, but involvement in serious crime is still evident; the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and Red Hand Commando (RHC) continue to put weapons "beyond reach", to downsize the organisation, and to reduce the level of criminality on the part of members. The report also contains statistics on the incidence of violence.
Download or read book Twenty fifth report of the Independent Monitoring Commission written by Independent Monitoring Commission and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Independent Commissions and Contentious Issues in Post Good Friday Agreement Northern Ireland written by Dawn Walsh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book asks how independent commissions helped to overcome difficulties during the implementation phase of the Good Friday Agreement. These independent groups worked to resolve issues which threatened to derail the peace process, including the reform of policing, the decommissioning of paramilitary weapons, the monitoring of ceasefires, dealing with the past conflict, and the issue of human rights. Each chapter provides an in-depth analysis of the work of a different group finding that the commissions engaged in a broad range of activities. Drawing on the lessons of Northern Ireland the book demonstrates the importance of balancing local and international involvement, the inclusion of expertise, and giving sufficient powers to such bodies. This volume appeals to academics and researchers in a range of disciplines such as politics, peace and conflict studies, international relations, and human rights law. It is of interest to readers who are interested in the Northern Ireland peace process and those seeking to understand how third parties can assist in the implementation of peace agreements.
Download or read book The Peacebuilding Elements of the Belfast Agreement and the Transformation of the Northern Ireland Conflict written by Cornelia Albert and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to analyse whether the implementation of the peacebuilding elements of the Belfast Agreement contributed to the transformation of the protracted Northern Ireland Conflict. Therefore, this book deals with the following sections of the Agreement: Rights, Safeguards and Equality of Opportunity, Decommissioning, Security, Policing and Justice, and Prisoners. The author comes to the conclusion that the majority of the peacebuilding elements contributed to the transformation of the Northern Ireland Conflict. The results of the study were obtained in conducting interviews, in consulting surveys, and in studying reports and other relevant literature on the recent developments in Northern Ireland.
Download or read book Model Rules of Professional Conduct written by American Bar Association. House of Delegates and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
Download or read book The Hoods written by Heather Hamill and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinctive feature of the conflict in Northern Ireland over the past forty years has been the way Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries have policed their own communities. This has mainly involved the violent punishment of petty criminals involved in joyriding and other types of antisocial behavior. Between 1973 and 2007, more than 5,000 nonmilitary shootings and assaults were attributed to paramilitaries punishing their own people. But despite the risk of severe punishment, young petty offenders--known locally as "hoods"--continue to offend, creating a puzzle for the rational theory of criminal deterrence. Why do hoods behave in ways that invite violent punishment? In The Hoods, Heather Hamill explains why this informal system of policing and punishment developed and endured and why such harsh punishments as beatings, "kneecappings," and exile have not stopped hoods from offending. Drawing on a variety of sources, including interviews with perpetrators and victims of this violence, the book argues that the hoods' risky offending may amount to a game in which hoods gain prestige by displaying hard-to-fake signals of toughness to each other. Violent physical punishment feeds into this signaling game, increasing the hoods' status by proving that they have committed serious offenses and can "manfully" take punishment yet remained undeterred. A rare combination of frontline research and pioneering ideas, The Hoods has important implications for our fundamental understanding of crime and punishment.
Download or read book Twenty first Report of the Independent Monitoring Commission written by Independent Monitoring Commission and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Divided We Stand written by John Horgan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, an exciting, new work written by one of the world's leading terrorism experts, presents a systematic and comprehensive look inside the strategy and psychology of Ireland's new terrorists.
