What is the Good Friday Agreement?

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What is the Good Friday Agreement?

It is the 1998 peace agreement that established a power-sharing government in Northern Ireland and created cross-border cooperation with the Republic of Ireland. This deal brought an end to decades of conflict by setting up the Northern Ireland Assembly and an Executive designed to include both nationalist and unionist voices, so leadership is shared. It also created intergovernmental and cross-border bodies—the North-South Ministerial Council and related mechanisms—to coordinate on issues affecting the whole island. A key element is the consent principle: any change to Northern Ireland’s constitutional status would require majority support in Northern Ireland. The agreement was endorsed in referendums in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and laid out reforms to policing and justice, mechanisms for decommissioning weapons, and provisions on prisoner release, all aiming to create a stable, democratic framework for cooperation.

It is the 1998 peace agreement that established a power-sharing government in Northern Ireland and created cross-border cooperation with the Republic of Ireland. This deal brought an end to decades of conflict by setting up the Northern Ireland Assembly and an Executive designed to include both nationalist and unionist voices, so leadership is shared. It also created intergovernmental and cross-border bodies—the North-South Ministerial Council and related mechanisms—to coordinate on issues affecting the whole island. A key element is the consent principle: any change to Northern Ireland’s constitutional status would require majority support in Northern Ireland. The agreement was endorsed in referendums in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and laid out reforms to policing and justice, mechanisms for decommissioning weapons, and provisions on prisoner release, all aiming to create a stable, democratic framework for cooperation.

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