Peter Emerson on Majoritarianism and the
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Time and TIDES
The genesis of TIDES Training came through Colin Craig and
Mary Montague, then respectively Corrymeela Centre Director
and Interface Worker, seeing a real need for the learning
and methodologies built not only within Corrymeela but across
the broader community relations sector to be disseminated
and developed. In particular they were convinced of the need
to build new generations of trainers and facilitators committed
to the work of peace building and conflict management.
TIDES (Transformation Interdependence
Diversity Equity Sustainability) is committed to providing
tailored training, designed in conjunction with organisations.
The range of work has grown to include programme across the
voluntary, community, and public sectors. TIDES is committed
to partnership based working where possible and are currently
involved in programme delivery with Belfast Interface, Counteract
and Mediation Northern Ireland. Work has also been done over
the last three years in Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia and Pakistan.
Within Northern Ireland TIDES is recognised
as providing one of the leading accredited Training for Trainers
courses in conflict management and community relations. This
work includes training in conflict analysis, mapping, mediation,
non-violent communication, group work and programme design.
TIDES is now recruiting for the Training
for Trainers course to start in September 2004. Entrance criteria
for this are a minimum of two years professional or voluntary
experience working in the community sector (community development,
community relations, education of conflict management). Should
you be interested in this or any other training course, please
phone Shona Borthwick at 077 66250848 or Liza Kelly on 077
89516651. For other enquiries please contact Mary Montague,
Training Director, TIDES, 48 Elmwood Avenue, Belfast BT9 6AZ,
phone 028 - 90 20 20 26. The e-mail is info@tidestraining.org
and website www.tidestraining.org
1,000 + children visit
Ireland through CCP
Over a thousand children from the nuclear-affected Chernobyl
region in Eastern Europe are in Ireland this summer for holiday
breaks with several hundred Irish families in all corners
of the country, allowing them to spend time away from their
radiation-contaminated homeland. The children are being brought
to Ireland by the Chernobyl Children's Project's Rest &
Recuperation Programme. The programme was established 12 years
ago and this year will see the total number of children to
have come to Ireland under this programme exceed 11,000. Many
of the children making the trip live in orphanages in Belarus
while the remainder of the children come from extremely impoverished
family backgrounds. The children range in age from 7 to 16.
Research undertaken by the Chernobyl Children's Project has
shown that taking the children out of their home environment
for even short periods of time can have hugely positive effects
on their overall health, well being, and life expectancy.
Adi Roche of the Chernobyl Children's Project
stated that the success of this popular programme was due
largely to the large numbers of Irish families who open their
homes to the Chernobyl children: "Without the ongoing
support of hundreds of Irish families it would not be possible
to sustain this programme. Year after year families throughout
the country open their homes and their hearts to these special
children."
Chernobyl Children's project, Ballycurreen Industrial Estate,
Kinsale Road, Cork, phone 021 - 431 2999, and fax 431 3170,
e-mail adiroche@adiccp.org
and web www.chernobyl-ireland.com
ISE: Reconciliation,
Ecumenical studies
Applications for the academic year 2004-2005 are invited for
the Ecumenical Studies and Reconciliation Studies programmes
of the Irish School of Ecumenics. Please visit our website
http://www.tcd.ie/ise
For Ecumenical Studies, please contact Dublin at 01-2601144
ext. 111. For Reconciliation Studies, please contact Belfast
at 028 9077 0087. All past Ecumenical Studies students are
invited to participate in the upcoming "Sustaining the
Vision", a conference on ecumenical learning, on Thursday
2 September to Tuesday 7 September 2004. For more information,
please contact the Communications Officer at 01 260 1144 ext.
112. ISE is organising a conference 'A Place for All? Comparing
Civil Society in Scotland and Northern Ireland' on 7 - 10
September 2004. If you are interested in attending and would
like more information, please contact ISE at 028 9077 5010
or email cenisec@tcd.ie
Dublin address; ISE, Bea House, Milltown Park, Dublin 6. Belfast
address; 683 Antrim Road, Belfast BT15 4EG.
Revamped INCORE website / Conflict
Research Society
The website for INCORE, the international conflict research
unit based at the University of Ulster at Magee, Derry, and
affiliated to the United Nations University, has been revamped;
see www.incore.ulster.ac.uk
The Conflict Research Society (CRS) in partnership
with INCORE/ University of Ulster and United Nations University
is pleased to announce their annual conference 'Multidisciplinary
Findings in Conflict Research' from 1st to 3rd September 2004,
at University of Ulster, Magee Campus. For further information:
Silvia D. Mussano, School of Policy Studies, Magee Campus,
University of Ulster, Derry BT48 7JL, ph.028-71375535, e-mail
sd.mussano@ulster.ac.uk
Tool decades of Solidarity
Tools for Solidarity will be celebrating a double birthday
on Saturday 11th September: 20 years of collecting, recycling
and repairing old tools in Belfast for sending out to developing
countries, and 10 years since our first full time workshop
was opened also in Belfast. A number of events will take place
from 9th - 11th September for friends, supporters, past and
present volunteers, and members of the organisation to participate
in; these include a day of practical solidarity refurbishing
tools in the workshop, a debate on sustainability, a one-day
conference on development issues, a quiz, and on the Saturday
the birthday celebration in the workshop and a concert in
the evening to raise funds and awareness of TFS.
Tools For Solidarity is an Irish development
organisation, which seeks to support artisans, and skilled
craftspeople in some of the poorest countries in the world
by providing them with high quality refurbished hand tools
and sewing machines. In the past 20 years, over 100,000 tools
and 1000 sewing machines have been collected from all over
Ireland, and more than 30,000 high quality refurbished hand
tools and 500 sewing machines have been shipped out to groups
in Nicaragua, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Malawi,
Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda. For further information
on the events phone 028 90747473 or email: tools.belfast@virgin.net
Glencree Summer School:
Respecting the past and moving
'Respecting the past as we move to the future' is the title
of the 11th Glencree Summer School which takes place Friday
- Sunday, 20th - 22nd August (12 noon start, 2pm finish).
Opening talks are given by Isaac Herzog, Knesset member and
Israeli Labour Party, and Dr Ali Halimeh, Palestinian ambassador.
Other speakers include Prionnsias de Rossa and Una O'Higgins
O'Malley. Residential cost is €140, non-residential €100,
enquire about reductions. Contact Helen Browne at Glencree
for further details. Glencree Centre for Reconciliation, Glencee,
Co Wicklow, phone 01 - 282 9711, e-mail info@glencree-cfr.ie
and web www.glencree-cfr.ie
Role of Civil Society
in the Prevention of Armed Conflict, again
The 101-page A4 printed report on the European conference
in Dublin with the above title, co-organised by Co-operation
Ireland, which took place at the end of March/start of April
is now available, as is the final printed version of the 'Dublin
Action Agenda' (see NN119, especially e-mail and web editions).
Both reports are on the ECCP website as PDF files. European
Centre for Conflict Prevention (ECCP), PO Box 14069, 3508
SC Utrecht, Netherlands, ph +31 (0)30 242 7777, e-mail info@conflictprevention.net
and web www.conflict-prevention.net
ARAN - No animal is
an island
In July, Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN) is launching
a new nationwide campaign that will be encouraging the public
& business to avoid animals in circuses or even promoting
the cruel trade in any way, shape or form. In the new school
term a new educational campaign to raise awareness on animals
being held captive will also be launched. ARAN also has plans
to organise a national day of action against circuses and
needs help to make it a success. As a great flying start to
the campaign why not write to your local news paper about
animals in captivity and in circuses, e-mail or call us for
more ideas and tips. Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN),
PO Box 722, Kildare, phone 087-6275579.
Amazing Grace and yourself
this summer
The Peace Maze in Castlewellan Forest Park, Castlewellan,
Co Down (32 miles south of Belfast), has now been recognised
by the Guinness Book of Records as the largest and longest
(3 kms of path) maze in the world. Built to commemorate the
Northern Ireland peace process, to get to the goal of the
maze you have to see both sides of the divide which the design
incorporates. Yew know yew can dew it when you wander and
queue over it. See www.peacemaze.com
From a distance - learning looks
blue and green Distance learning opportunities coming
up in the autumn include:
Human Rights Monitoring, running from September
- December from HREA, Human Rights Education Associates;
estimated 60 hours work. Info, outline, previous evaluations
and application at http://www.hrea.org/courses/4E.html
(application deadline 1st September).
Transcend Peace University has 13 courses
running September-December including ones on Nonviolence
as Political Tool and Philosophy, with Jorgen Johansen,
one on peace journalism, several on peace and…..(various
things) and Conflict Prevention, Intervention, Reconciliation
and Reconstruction with S.P. Udayakumar.
Registration deadline is 17th September and
the fee in the EU is €300. Contact: e-mail tpu@transcend.org
or fax+40-264-420298, phone +40-724-380551 or see the website
at www.transcend.org/tpu
Shamrock jewellery for
Cooperation Ireland
Shamrock peace jewellery designed by Slim Barrett is now available
online with proceeds from the sale going to Co-operation Ireland.
The jewellery in sterling silver ranges from lapel pins and
earrings to chains and necklaces and in price from £39.95
upwards. You can look it up at http://shop.irishabroad.com/peaceshamrock
while the main Co-operation Ireland website address is www.cooperationireland.org
The War Trilogy
Our Antimilitarist Music Reviewer writes: Mark Foley released
the 'The War Trilogy' last year in response to the invasion
of Iraq. The 3 anti-war tracks are similar in style with Mark's
unmistakably Dylan-esque vocals and jangly acoustic guitar
rhythms focusing on aspects of the 'War on Terror' from a
US angle. 'Sudden Sound' is strong on the imagery of a missile
being targeted on a town and the inevitable civilian casualties
and how the media coverage is like 'snuff film on the nightly
news'. 'Enemy Me' has a faster rhythm with the subject being
the effects of the rollback of civil liberties on unnamed
individuals and also covers detainees at Guantanamo Bay. 'Baghdad
Road' has an intro a bit like Hotel California (for those
with that kind of memory). The refrain '300 miles on a Baghdad
road' covers the likely/actual exploits of a US army unit
presumably making their way from Kuwait to Baghdad at the
start of the invasion. The lyrics are hard-hitting - it's
a pity the same can't be said for the backing which is pretty
repetitive.
All in all these tracks are well worth a listen
& available for free download at www.peacesong.com
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