Paul Bew - Revision history

Richard Bew: /* Affiliations */

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Richard Bew: /* Affiliations */

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Melissa Jones at 02:12, 27 April 2015

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Olivia Rendall at 10:56, 4 February 2015

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Melissa Jones: /* Affiliations */

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Tom Griffin: /* Affiliations */

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Tom Griffin: /* The Peace process */

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The Peace process

Melissa Jones: typo

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typo

Tom Griffin: neocon -> neoconservative

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neocon -> neoconservative

Tom Griffin: /* The Peace process */

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The Peace process

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 *[[Henry Jackson Society]], Advisory Council: Policy Council members <ref> [http://henryjacksonsociety.org/people/council-members/ Advisory Council:Policy Council members], HJS website, undated, accessed 5 November 2014 </ref>
 *[[Anglo-Israel Association]], chairman<ref>[http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/accounts%202011.pdf Reports and Financial Statements], Anglo-Israel Association, 31 December 2011.</ref>
-**[[Kurdistan Region in Iraq All-Party Parliamentary Group]] - Vice-chair <ref>[http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/160203/kurdistan-region-in-iraq.htm Kurdistan APPG Register Feb 16], ''www.parliament.uk'', accessed 18 February 2016</ref>
+*[[Kurdistan Region in Iraq All-Party Parliamentary Group]] - Vice-chair <ref>[http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/160203/kurdistan-region-in-iraq.htm Kurdistan APPG Register Feb 16], ''www.parliament.uk'', accessed 18 February 2016</ref>
 ==Notes==
 <references/>
 [[Category:Northern Ireland|Bew, Paul]][[Category:Old Campbellians|Bew, Paul]][[Category:House of Lords|Bew, Paul]]

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 *[[Henry Jackson Society]], Advisory Council: Policy Council members <ref> [http://henryjacksonsociety.org/people/council-members/ Advisory Council:Policy Council members], HJS website, undated, accessed 5 November 2014 </ref>
 *[[Anglo-Israel Association]], chairman<ref>[http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/accounts%202011.pdf Reports and Financial Statements], Anglo-Israel Association, 31 December 2011.</ref>
 ==Notes==
 <references/>
 [[Category:Northern Ireland|Bew, Paul]][[Category:Old Campbellians|Bew, Paul]][[Category:House of Lords|Bew, Paul]]

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 He is a member of the [[Cadogan Group]], a loosely-organised unionist think-thank. Like [[David Trimble]], he is a signatory of the Cambridge neoconservative think tank the [[Henry Jackson Society Project for Democratic Geopolitics]].
-In February 2007, it was announced by the [[House of Lords Appointments Commission]] that he will be made a life peer and will sit as a Crossbencher. His title was gazetted as Baron Bew, of Donegore in the County of Antrim on 26 March 2007.
+In February 2007, it was announced by the [[House of Lords Appointments Commission]] that he would be made a life peer and sit as a crossbencher. His title was gazetted as Baron Bew, of Donegore in the County of Antrim on 26 March 2007.
 ==Early life==

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	[[Paul Bew\|Paul Anthony Elliott Bew]], Baron Bew is professor of Irish politics at the Queen's University of Belfast, a position he has held since 1991.		[[Paul Bew\|Paul Anthony Elliott Bew]], Baron Bew is professor of Irish politics at the Queen's University of Belfast, a position he has held since 1991.

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 ==Affiliations==
-*[[Workers' Association for a Democratic Settlement in Ireland]] - former member
+*[[Workers' Association for a Democratic Settlement in Ireland]], former member
-*[[Workers Party]] - former member
+*[[Workers Party]], former member
 *[[Cadogan Group]]
-*[[Henry Jackson Society]]
+*[[Henry Jackson Society]], Advisory Council: Policy Council members <ref> [http://henryjacksonsociety.org/people/council-members/ Advisory Council:Policy Council members], HJS website, undated, accessed 5 November 2014 </ref>
-*[[Anglo-Israel Association]] - Chairman<ref>[http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/accounts%202011.pdf Reports and Financial Statements], Anglo-Israel Association, 31 December 2011.</ref>
+*[[Anglo-Israel Association]], chairman<ref>[http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/accounts%202011.pdf Reports and Financial Statements], Anglo-Israel Association, 31 December 2011.</ref>
 ==Notes==
 <references/>
 [[Category:Northern Ireland|Bew, Paul]][[Category:Old Campbellians|Bew, Paul]][[Category:House of Lords|Bew, Paul]]

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 Bew was one of a number of Trimble supporters who argued that the North Belfast UUP MP [[Cecil Walker]] should stand down after a disastrous TV debate ahead of the 2001 Westminster election.<ref>Dean Godson, Himself Alone, David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism, Harper Perennial, 2004, p.659.</ref> He also proposed that a Border Poll should be held on the same day as the election to strengthen the union and increase unionist turnout.<ref>Dean Godson, Himself Alone, David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism, Harper Perennial, 2004, p.706.</ref>
-Bew Told Godson that his had been the only voice arguing for suspension of the Northern Ireland Assembly at a Hillsborough dinner hosted by the Permanent Secretary of the [[Northern Ireland Office]], [[Joe Pilling]] in October 2001.<ref>Dean Godson, Himself Alone, David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism, Harper Perennial, 2004, p.733.</ref>
+Bew told Godson that his had been the only voice arguing for suspension of the Northern Ireland Assembly at a Hillsborough dinner hosted by the Permanent Secretary of the [[Northern Ireland Office]], [[Joe Pilling]] in October 2001.<ref>Dean Godson, Himself Alone, David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism, Harper Perennial, 2004, p.733.</ref>
 In 2003, Trimble aide [[David Campbell]] asked Bew to deliver a paper on Eamonn De Valera's 1923 order to dump arms as a model for disarmament. Bew criticised this precedent because the IRA had continued to regard the Irish Free State as an illegal entity.<ref>Dean Godson, Himself Alone, David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism, Harper Perennial, 2004, p.739.</ref>

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 Bew Told Godson that his had been the only voice arguing for suspension of the Northern Ireland Assembly at a Hillsborough dinner hosted by the Permanent Secretary of the [[Northern Ireland Office]], [[Joe Pilling]] in October 2001.<ref>Dean Godson, Himself Alone, David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism, Harper Perennial, 2004, p.733.</ref>
-In 2003, Trimble aide [[David Campbell]] asked Bew to deliver a paper on Eamonn De Valera's 1923 order to dump arms as a model for disaarmament. Bew criticised this precedent because the IRA had continued to regard the Irish Free State as an illegal entity.<ref>Dean Godson, Himself Alone, David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism, Harper Perennial, 2004, p.739.</ref>
+In 2003, Trimble aide [[David Campbell]] asked Bew to deliver a paper on Eamonn De Valera's 1923 order to dump arms as a model for disarmament. Bew criticised this precedent because the IRA had continued to regard the Irish Free State as an illegal entity.<ref>Dean Godson, Himself Alone, David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism, Harper Perennial, 2004, p.739.</ref>
 According to Dean Godson, Bew took the view that Bush administration neoconservatives could have over-ruled US envoy [[Richard Haass]] over his support for Northern Ireland Assembly elections in 2003, but that the disdain of British diplomats for the neocons prevented them from exploiting this.<ref>Dean Godson, Himself Alone, David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism, Harper Perennial, 2004, p.774.</ref>

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 A native of Belfast, Bew attended Campbell College, Belfast before studying for his Masters and PhD at Cambridge University. He was active in the Northern Ireland Civil Rights movement, and participated in the 1969 Belfast-Derry march which was attacked by loyalist protestors at Burntollet. He is a recognised authority on Irish History and politics.
-He is a member of the [[Cadogan Group]], a loosely-organised unionist think-thank. Like Trimble, he is a signatory of the Cambridge [[neocon]] think tank the [[Henry Jackson Society Project for Democratic Geopolitics]].
+He is a member of the [[Cadogan Group]], a loosely-organised unionist think-thank. Like [[David Trimble]], he is a signatory of the Cambridge neoconservative think tank the [[Henry Jackson Society Project for Democratic Geopolitics]].
 In February 2007, it was announced by the [[House of Lords Appointments Commission]] that he will be made a life peer and will sit as a Crossbencher. His title was gazetted as Baron Bew, of Donegore in the County of Antrim on 26 March 2007.

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 In May 1995, Bew criticised the British and Irish governments for softening their stance on [[IRA]] decommissioning ahead of a meeting between [[Gerry Adams]] and the Northern Ireland Secretary Sir [[Patrick Mayhew]].<ref>Paul Bew, Giving way to the IRA over arms, The Times, 24 May 1995.</ref>
-In the wake of disturbances at Drumcree, Bew called for the British government to cultivate modernising unionists, and for the [[Ulster Unionist Party]] to address the role of the [[Orange Order]] within its organisation.<ref>Paul Bew, Orange is not the only order, The Times, 12 July 1995.</ref>
+In the wake of disturbances at Drumcree in July 1995, Bew called for the British government to cultivate modernising unionists, and for the [[Ulster Unionist Party]] to address the role of the [[Orange Order]] within its organisation.<ref>Paul Bew, Orange is not the only order, The Times, 12 July 1995.</ref>
 During the Drumcree Crisis in July 1998, Bew was one of a small group including among others, Professor [[Liam Kennedy]], [[Sean O'Callaghan]] and [[Ruth Dudley Edwards]] which attempted to draft a speech for the Prime Minister. Dudley Edwards subsequently wrote: