A (Sinn) Féin’d Peace?
The Northern Irish Peace Process: 1988
A TRADITIONAL CRISIS COMMITTEE
ABOUT THIS COMMITTEE
To quote Kneecap, “Tiocfaidh ár lá, get the Brits out lad!” But can that really happen? Should it happen?
It is January 1988, and the Troubles in Northern Ireland are in full swing. With paramilitaries and soldiers battling throughout the territory, the period is more accurately described as a decades-long period of sectarian civil war, motivated by centuries-spanning questions of personal and national identity. Tensions run deep across all partitions, and even groups with the same outlook find themselves at odds and at arms with each other. As such, violence has touched every part of daily life in the six counties. With Republican Nationalists viewing the North of Ireland as a final vestige of British colonialism, and Unionist Loyalists seeing Northern Ireland as an intrinsic constituent part of the United Kingdom, is there any way these sides can come together to find a new way forward?
Can peace win out in a time of Troubles?
THe Dais
Crisis Director
Eli Woodruff
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Elias Woodruff is a sophomore from Ellicott City, MD, majoring in Public Policy and Geography & Environment and minoring Urban Studies & Planning. Eli has been in Model UN since his freshman year of high school and is very excited to serve as the CD for such an incredible committee. After studying abroad through Carolina Global Launch at the University of Limerick in Ireland during his first semester at UNC, he is also excited to experience Fall in Chapel Hill with all of you.
Associate Crisis Director
TBD
Head CHair
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Deputy Chair
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