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March body gives vision on future March dialogue 'the way forward'
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The Parades Commission is due to publish its views on how marching disputes in Northern Ireland should be handled in the future. Dialogue between local people is the "only way to reach a lasting solution" to marching issues in Northern Ireland, the Parades Commission has said.
The report is entitled Parading and a Peaceful Northern Ireland. The commission has reviewed its role and published a report called Parading and a Peaceful Northern Ireland.
The commission hopes it will be able to build upon the successes of this year's marching season. Commission chairman Roger Poole said violent incidents had decreased.
It hopes that in the future nationalist and unionist communities will be able to broker deals on contentious marches without their intervention. "This happened because people in key areas across their community and the community divide worked tirelessly," he said.
"Commission sources believe local communities deserve credit for engaging with each other over the summer and they hope to build on that by widening that dialogue," BBC Northern Ireland political editor Mark Devenport said. The commission said that it wanted the secretary of state to allow certain vintage vehicle associations an exemption from the main provisions of the 1998 parades act.
"They believe an increase in the number of local agreements will ensure the commission doesn't have to make so many formal determinations on contentious marches." It said it also wanted to add greater clarity and accessibility to its determinations by reviewing its use of language and "the inclusion of more explanatory material".
'Amend rules'
The body also wants its procedural rules amended to clarify the process of determining whether a parade is considered contentious.
"The commission is putting greater effort than ever before in promoting and facilitating dialogue," the report said.
"The challenge for us all is to talk through our concerns, fears, passions, beliefs and frustrations. It is a challenge the Parades Commission is willing to take."
The Parades Commission currently makes about 170 determinations every year, although more than 50 of those deal with re-applications for the Portadown Orange Order's Drumcree march.The Parades Commission currently makes about 170 determinations every year, although more than 50 of those deal with re-applications for the Portadown Orange Order's Drumcree march.
"Looking to the long term, senior commission sources believe that if two or three years went by without any formal determinations on disputes needing to be made the commission could do itself out of a job," Mr Devenport said. The commission was set up in 1997 to make decisions on whether controversial parades should be restricted.
The Parades Commission was set up in 1997 to make decisions on whether controversial parades should be restricted.