Making Peace - Hardcover

Mitchell, George J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375406069 ISBN 13: 9780375406065

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1999

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The Democratic senator and diplomat describes his arduous quest for a peace accord in Northern Ireland, detailing his struggle to bring together hostile opposing parties, the difficult negotiations, his relationship with the main players, and the final agreement

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George Mitchell served as Senator from Maine from 1980 to 1995, the last six years as Majority Leader. Prior to that he served as U.S. Attorney for Maine and as a United States District Court Judge. Since leaving the Senate, in addition to chairing the Northern Ireland peace talks, he has served as Chairman of the International Crisis Group, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention of crises in international affairs; Chairman of the National Health Care Commission; Chairman of the Ethics Committee of the U.S. Olympic Committee; and chairman of the commission investigating allegations of corruption in the Olympic bid process. Senator Mitchell is married to the former Heather MacLachlan and they have one child, Andrew.

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tes before five o'clock on Good Friday, 1998, Senator George Mitchell was informed that his long and difficult quest for an Irish peace accord had succeeded--the Protestants and Catholics of Northern Ireland, and the governments of the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, would sign the agreement. Now Mitchell, who served as independent chairman of the peace talks for the length of the process, tells us the inside story of the grueling road to this momentous accord.<br><br>For more than two years, Mitchell, who was Senate majority leader under Presidents Bush and Clinton, labored to bring together parties whose mutual hostility--after decades of violence and mistrust--seemed insurmountable: Sinn Fein, represented by Gerry Adams; the Catholic moderates, led by John Hume; the majority Protestant party, headed by David Trimble; Ian Paisley's hard-line unionists; and, not least, the governments of the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, headed by Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair.<br><

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0375406069
• ISBN 13: 9780375406065
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 191
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