Negotiations with peace settlement referendums : comparing the Annan Plan and Good Friday Agreement experiences
Journal: Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent)
Year: 2016

This thesis investigates how peace negotiation processes influence peace settlement referendum outcomes. It addresses a re-occurring problem in peace processes of settlements being rejected by popular vote after strenuous political negotiations. For this purpose, it investigates and compares how the Annan Plan negotiations in Cyprus and the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) negotiations in Northern Ireland culminated with the acceptance of the latter and the rejection of the former. In doing so, it ef