Lessons from George Mitchell and Northern Ireland
In late 1995, the United States, Republic of Ireland, and United Kingdom called upon a retired U.S. senator by the name of George Mitchell to chair the struggling peace process in Northern Island -- a bitter, deadlocked dispute for which few people had much hope. Yet in just a matter of months, we will mark 20 years since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, which led to that conflict's end. In the field of conflict resolution, it is an example that stands prominently as
