Mentor Post #3

I met with my mentor, Professor Anthony Wanis, on Feb. 6, for about half an hour. I updated him that I was doing process-tracing, which I hadn’t told him before break because it was somewhat of a last minute decision. I also updated him that I had decided to do a single-case study on Northern Ireland, after the collective advising workshop in class the other day. We also discussed the different types of sources I will need to do a process-trace, such as the actual accord, newspaper articles, personal memoirs (such as that of George Mitchell, which I’ve begun reading), and academic articles. I will look to see if Monica McWilliams, one of the female negotiators, wrote a memoir, and I’ll also look for records of the negotiations of the Good Friday Agreement, if I can find them. I’m a little apprehensive about getting all of the research done, because process-tracing is really in-depth, but if I get started pretty soon it should work out alright.