caa a22 4500 388045949 CHVBK 20180307125038.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S002058930006262X doi S002058930006262X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S002058930006262X I. The Northern Ireland Peace Agreement, Minority Rights and Self-Determination [Elektronische Daten] [Colin Warbrick: editor, Dominic McGoldrick: editor, Geoff Gilbert] The Northern Ireland Peace Agreement1 was concluded following multi-party negotiations on Good Friday, 10 April 1998. It received 71 per cent approval in Northern Ireland and 95 per cent approval in the Republic of Ireland in the subsequent referenda held on Friday 22 May, the day after Ascension. To some, it must have seemed that the timing was singularly appropriate following 30 years of "The Troubles”, which were perceived as being between a "Catholic minority” and a "Protestant majority”. While there are some minority groups identified by their religious affiliation that do require rights relating only to their religion, such as the right to worship in community,2 to practise and profess their religion,3 to legal recognition as a church,4 to hold property5 and to determine its own membership,6 some minority groups identified by their religious affiliation are properly national or ethnic minorities-religion is merely one factor which distinguishes them from the other groups, including the majority, in the population. One example of the latter situation is to be seen in (Northern) Ireland where there is, in fact, untypically, a double minority: the Catholic-nationalist community is a minority in Northern Ireland, but the Protestant-unionist population is a minority in the island of Ireland as a whole.7 The territory of Northern Ireland is geographically separate from the rest of the United Kingdom. The recent peace agreement addresses a whole range of issues for Northern Ireland, but included are, on the one hand, rights for the populations based on their religious affiliation, their culture and their language and, on the other, rights with respect to their political participation up to the point of external self-determination. It is a holistic approach. Like any good minority rights agreement,8 it deals with both standards and their implementation and, like any good minority rights agreement, it is not a minority rights agreement but, rather, a peace settlement. Copyright © British Institute of International and Comparative Law 1998 Warbrick Colin edt McGoldrick Dominic edt Gilbert Geoff International and Comparative Law Quarterly Cambridge University Press 47/4(1998-10), 943-950 0020-5893 47:4<943 1998 47 ILQ https://doi.org/10.1017/S002058930006262X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S002058930006262X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Warbrick Colin edt NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McGoldrick Dominic edt NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gilbert Geoff NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International and Comparative Law Quarterly Cambridge University Press 47/4(1998-10), 943-950 0020-5893 47:4<943 1998 47 ILQ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge