Published: 12.12.2025

Special issue: Reform of the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement

Guest editor: Katie A Johnston

DOI: https://doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v76i3

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Requires Subscription NILQ 76.3 Autumn 2025

Editorial

Reform of the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement: Introduction

Katie A Johnston
Abstract 89 | NILQ 76.3.0 Johnston Downloads 46 | DOI https://doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v76i3.1252

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Articles

Reforming the 1998 Agreement institutions: the state of the debate

Alan Whysall
Abstract 221 | NILQ 76.3.1 Whysall Downloads 3 | DOI https://doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v76i3.1253

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Stormont: from rights-based safeguards to political vetoes – has the intention of the Good Friday Agreement been turned on its head?

Daniel Holder, Caroline Arnold, Delana Sobhani
Abstract 102 | NILQ 76.3.2 Holder et al Downloads 34 | DOI https://doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v76i3.1192

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Reform of a constitutional fundamental: the principle of cross-community consent and Northern Ireland’s governance

Patrick Graham
Abstract 89 | NILQ 76.3.3 Graham Downloads 50 | DOI https://doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v76i3.1189

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Triple Consent? Parties, people and Parliament: reforming the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement

David Torrance
Abstract 65 | NILQ 76.3.4 Torrance Downloads 31 | DOI https://doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v76i3.1232

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Brexit and the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement: the case for reform amid evolving political, legal, and international norms

Ciarán Burke
Abstract 74 | NILQ 76.3.5 Burke Downloads 3 | DOI https://doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v76i3.1190

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The reform of the institutions created by the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and treaty amendment: an example of the interplay between a treaty and a non-legally binding agreement

Maria Xiouri
Abstract 113 | NILQ 76.3.6 Xiouri Downloads 3 | DOI https://doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v76i3.1188

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Unilateral change to the institutions of the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement

Katie A Johnston
Abstract 95 | NILQ 76.3.7 Johnston Downloads 38 | DOI https://doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v76i3.1182

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Contested pathways to security normalisation in Northern Ireland

Genevieve Lennon, Clive Walker
Abstract 69 | NILQ 76.3.8 Lennon and Walker Downloads 5 | DOI https://doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v76i3.1191

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An alternative Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland, in instalments: Assembly incorporation of international rights instruments

C R G Murray
Abstract 64 | NILQ 76.3.9 Murray Downloads 4 | DOI https://doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v76i3.1183

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Book Reviews

The Future of Peace: Incorporation of Intergenerational Equity and Justice in Peace Treaties and Reconciliation Agreements by Alexandra Harrington

Sinead Coakley
Abstract 89 | NILQ 76.3.10 Coakley Downloads 31 | DOI https://doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v76i3.1181

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