Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finally forging the agreement was the intricate balancing of victories and defeats for both sides in the sectarian conflict. Protestant unionists, whose opposition to any change in the province's status as part of Britain once drove them to decorate Belfast city hall with a giant banner declaring ULSTER SAYS NO, agreed not only to share power with Catholic parties in a new Northern Ireland assembly but also to work together with ministers and politicians from Dublin in new cross-border government bodies, which look suspiciously like the first steps toward a united Ireland. And politicians from Catholic nationalist...
Scheffer said he sees a solution to the larger conflict between national sovereignty and the court's jurisdiction in the principle of "complementarity." According to this principle, the international court would defer to state courts if they are deemed sound by an independent prosecutor...
...Best place to listen: large communal spaces where the assertion of individuality would lead to conflict, and where exits are easily accessible...
Cantabrigian Susan McGuire told councillors that she sees the conflict as one between "sewers and safety," and that the council should err on the side of protecting pedestrians...
Boston-based Peace Watch Ireland, members of which have traveled to Northern Ireland to observe marches and protests, was founded in 1994 to promote awareness of the Irish conflict in the U.S. The group, which is nonsectarian, has held a conference on militarization and its effects on human rights in Ireland...