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Supporting academics and policymakers in sharing evidence-based research and ideas on the major social, cultural and economic challenges facing society regionally, nationally and beyond. Our over-arching vision is to share the University’s independent expertise with policymakers so they can make informed decisions about the most effective and sustainable ways to tackle these challenges, now and in the future.
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Good Friday Agreement at 20: protecting the GFA from Brexit: Is the “Backstop” proposal enough?
In the latest article on the Good Friday Agreement, the 20th anniversary of its signing comes at a time when the prospect of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU has raised serious concerns about what ‘Brexit’ will mean for the Agreement and its future implementation says Professor David Phinnemore.
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Good Friday Agreement at 20: NI Bill of Rights 20 years on
The latest podcast from Queen’s Law School is now available online.
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Good Friday Agreement at 20: worth celebrating?
Jonathan Powell, chief government negotiator in Northern Ireland from 1997 to 2007 and one of the architects of the Good Friday Agreement, reflects on how the agreement has served Northern Ireland over the past 20 years.
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Good Friday Agreement at 20: a reflection twenty years on
In the latest in a series of QPol articles marking the 20th anniversary of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, Dr Peter McLoughlin reflects on how far Northern Ireland has come in the last 20 years and how much work is still to be done.
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Back to the Margins? A Crisis for Human Rights and Equality
When it comes to rights and equality, there is a crisis that merits urgent attention says Professor Colin Harvey.
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How not to fix the Irish border problem
Dr Katy Hayward gives her response to Shanker Singham’s recent article entitled ‘How to fix the Irish border problem’.
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Russia’s loss of credibility
Dr Alexander Titov looks at why Russia doesn’t deserve a ‘presumption of innocence’ over the Skripal affair, and why it’s dangerous for everyone else
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Good Friday Agreement at 20: The Return of the Bill of Rights?
In the first of a series of QPol articles marking the 20th anniversary of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, Prof Colin Harvey and Dr Anne Smith from Ulster University reiterate their call for a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland.
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Sinn Féin President Talks Brexit at Queen’s University
Mary Lou McDonald, newly-appointed President of Sinn Féin, delivered an address entitled “Brexit: Challenges and Opportunities” to a packed house this week at Queen’s University.
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Big Data Meets the Attention Economy
In a specially extended article, Dr Peter Doran references the recent Cambridge Analytica fallout and looks at how the battle for our attention is fast becoming the defining problem of our time.