25 years ago: Northern Ireland peace talks open in Belfast On June 10, 1996, all-party talks on a political settlement in Northern Ireland opened in Belfast, with Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, initially excluded and with Protestant delegates objecting to the proposed chairman of the session, former US senator and close advisor to the Clinton administration, George Mitchell.
Our human capacity for compromise is impeded by the challenge of scale the fact that bridge-building must occur across a nation that has been sorted into homogeneous clusters, geographically and online.
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