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decommissioning in Northern Ireland  

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  • The decommissioning of illegal paramilitary weapons was an issue that threaded through the Northern Ireland peace process, highlighting the potential political difficulties in dealing with the question of weaponry held by insurgent or terrorist groups. Decommissioning in this context refers to the verified disarmament or disposal of paramilitary weapons, and it became a substantive blockage at various points in an attenuated process of peacemaking. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism; Decommissioning in Northern Ireland]

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