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'Great Hatred Little Room: the Good Friday Agreement and post-Brexit Northern Ireland'

Monday 13th May, 6-7pm on Zoom.

Jonathan Powell (former Chief of Staff to Tony Blair and Chief British Negotiator on Northern Ireland 1997-2007) will join us to discuss why the Good Friday Agreement succeeded when earlier attempts at peace had failed, and Northern Ireland’s future prospects post-Brexit. Jonathan will be in conversation with Dr Niamh Gallagher (Associate Professor of Modern British and Irish History, University of Cambridge).

Please sign up to join us on Zoom here.

About the speaker

Jonathan Powell was Chief of Staff to Tony Blair from 1995 to 2007 and from 1997 to 2007 was Chief British Negotiator on Northern Ireland. From 1978-79 he was a broadcast journalist with the BBC and Granada TV, and from 1979 to 1994 a British Diplomat. He is the author of Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland (2008), The New Machiavelli, How to Wield Power in the Modern World (2010) and Talking to Terrorists, How to End Armed Conflict (2014).

Today Jonathan is CEO of Inter Mediate, a charity he founded in 2011 to work on conflict resolution around the world. Jonathan worked on the negotiations with ETA in the Basque country, on the negotiations in Colombia with the FARC, and on the peace negotiations in Mozambique. Inter Mediate is presently working on ten conflicts.

Jonathan will be in conversation with Dr Niamh Gallagher. Niamh is an Associate Professor of Modern British and Irish History at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of St Catharine's College, and the co-convenor of the IOI series. She is the author of Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History (2019) and co-editor of The Political Thought of the Irish Revolution (2022).

This event is organised in collaboration with the Centre for Geopolitics.