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This is a new, beautifully illustrated and presented, pack for
9 - 14 year olds produced by Yvonne Naylor of the Transforming
Sectarianism Project of the Irish School of Ecumenics (ISE).
It is designed to help children and young people explore identity
and belonging at both individual and community level, develop
positive identity, an understanding of feelings and emotions
(both own and other's), look at differences and similarities
and develop skills for dealing with conflict and difference.
It is produced on thick paper in a loose leaf folder (184 pages
plus worksheets). It is based on Cecelia Clegg and Joe Liechty's
book 'Moving Beyond Sectarianism' (Columba Press);
study resources for adults and young adults on this appeared
in 2001 and are still available from ISE (see NN92). "Who
we are - dealing with difference" is available at
£18 (plus £5 extra if posted) from ISE, 683 Antrim
Road, Belfast BT15 4EG, ph 028 - 9077 5010.
Here's a summary of the academic programmes at the Irish
School of Ecumenics (ISE):
Ecumenical Studies Programme
introduces and explores all three currents of the modern ecumenical
movement - justice and peace, interreligious dialogue, and
interchurch dialogue. It also seeks to reflect critically
on major questions and insights of the ecumenical movement,
and to lay a theological foundation for the vision of ecumenism,
engagement in issues of justice and peace and interreligious
dialogue; and is taught in Dublin. Email: ecumsec@tcd.ie
International Peace Studies Programme
addresses the wider ethical and philosophical questions that
arise concerning problems of peace and war in the context
of social sciences with focus on ethics and international
politics, conflict resolution, human rights and politics of
development, and is taught in Dublin. Email: peacesec@tcd.ie
Reconciliation Studies Programme addresses
the challenge of developing a fuller, more complex, more systematic
understanding of theoretical and practical approaches to reconciliation,
and is taught in Belfast. Email: reconsec@tcd.ie
Research Degree Programme: Doctor
in Philosophy (Ph.D.) and Master in Literature (M.Litt.) may
be undertaken in the following areas - Ecumenical Studies,
International Peace Studies, and Reconciliation Studies. Email:
ressec@tcd.ie
Conflict and Dispute Resolution Studies
Programme is an evening postgraduate taught Diploma
programme for those who seek to enhance their knowledge and
skills in mediation, conflict analysis, management and resolution.
Those who complete the programme will have a deep understanding
of the nature of conflict, the various conflict resolution
processes available and will knowhow to apply them. The programme
is taught in Dublin. Email: cdrssec@tcd.ie
Dublin address: Irish School of Ecumenics
(Trinity College Dublin), Bea House, Milltown Park, Dublin
6, Republic. Tel: +353-1-260 1144 Fax: +353-1-260 1158
Belfast address: Irish School of Ecumenics (Trinity
College Dublin), 683 Antrim Road, Belfast BT15 4EG. Tel: 028
9077 5010 Fax: 028 90373986. Web: www.tcd.ie/ise
The Glencree Summer School this year runs from 15 - 17th August
on the topic of "Resolving conflicts without losers:
The experience of Ireland and other peace processes".
Further details from Glencree Centre for Reconciliation, Glencree,
Co Wicklow, ph 01 - 2829711, fax 2766085, e-mail info@glencree-cfr.ie
Cooperation Ireland in Belfast is now based at Glendinning
House, 6 Murray Street, Belfast BT1 6DN, phone 028 - 9032
14 62, fax 9089 10 00, e-mail info@cooperationireland.org
Note new address and fax number. The Dublin
office is at 20 Herbert Place, Dublin 2, phone 01 - 661
05 88. Cooperation Ireland works as a catalyst for North/South
cooperation assisting those working to promote reconciliation,
tolerance and mutual trust.
Mary Kelly, who took direct action against a US warplane at
Shannon airport some days before the Catholic Worker 5, has
been found guilty of the minor charge of trespass but remanded
on continuing bail following disagreement among the jury about
the more major charge of criminal damage (the DPP/Director
of Public Prosecutions now has to decide whether there should
be a further trial). The jury were unable to agree a majority
10 - 2 verdict despite a very biased summing up by the judge
at Kilrush Circuit Court. The allegation was that $1.5 million
worth of criminal damage was done with an axe. Her sentencing
on the trespass charge will come in October. Further details;
See Indymedia site at www.indymedia.ie
or papers of the start of July.
INDEX is the Irish Network for Development Education eXchange.
INDEX is a new space for information sharing about development
education, and is the successor to the NODE newsletter
and contacts list. It is produced by Comhlámh to
serve the development education sector throughout Ireland.
INDEX provides...
The INDEX Newsletter: A quarterly
newsletter with articles and information on development education
issues and an events calendar.
The INDEX Contacts List: Contact
information for development education organizations and groups
throughout Ireland.
The INDEX Website: A hub for
development education information sharing, which will also
host the contacts list and the calendar of development education
events, updated monthly.
For further information, please contact
index@comhlamh.org or phone 01 - 478 3490, or see the
web at www.comhlamh.org/index
Comhlámh is at 10 Upper Camden Street, Dublin 2, also
with offices in Cork and since recently Belfast.
On Saturday 19th July in Dublin the Debt and Development Coalition
is celebrating the first anniversary of the Irish government
supporting 100% debt cancellation, with the aim to get the
government to promote its debt policy more effectively and
to make it one of the priorities of the Irish EU presidency
in January 2004. So it is asking everyone to join in solidarity
with the poorest in the world; meet 11.30 am 19th July at
top of Grafton Street to collect signatures; and assemble
at the same point at 2.30 pm to dance, sing and chant down
to the Central Bank where representatives of different organisations
will sign a large petition to the Taoiseach. Contact; Debt
and Development Coalition Ireland, All Hallows, Grace Park
Road, Dublin 9, ph/fax 01 - 857 1828, e-mail ddc@connect.ie
and web www.debtireland.org
The major US arms manufacturer Raytheon has refused an
invitation to discuss the work of their Derry-based Northern
Ireland Software Centre at a special meeting of Derry
City Council which would also have been attended by representatives
of the Foyle Ethical Investment Campaign (FEIC). Derry
City Council opposed the war in Iraq and it was in this
context that the proposed meeting was to take place. Jim
Keys of FEIC said
"...this is the company that
makes the Tomahawk Cruise Missiles that rained down death
in market places, hospitals and homes during that illegal
war against the Iraqi people. It is the company that makes
the thousands of cluster bombs that still litter Iraq awaiting
new victims."
A Raytheon spokesperson said that the "bottom
line is we've explained many times what we do" so
that there was no point in attending a meeting. Contact FEIC
at feicmail@yahoo.com
or phone Jim Keys at 078 036 87 90.
Peace Brigades International UK section (PBI), a human rights
organisation working for the transformation of conflict, is
organising its next orientation weekend for prospective volunteers
wanting to work as international human rights observers in
Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala and Indonesia. You must be over
25 years and speak the language of the country concerned.
Field placement is for 12 months. The orientation weekend
will take place from 25th to 28th of September in Buckinghamshire
and will explore issues such as the role of a non-partisan
human rights organisation implementing non violent alternatives
in conflict areas, PBI's mandate, principles and detailed
information on our projects. For further information please
refer to our website or send us an A4 SAE (57p) to: PBI UK
Section, 1b Waterlow Road, London N19 5NJ. Phone: (020) 7281
53 70, pbiuk@gn.apc.org
, www.peacebrigades.org/britain
"International intervention and conflict in Macedonia:
causing problems...claiming solutions" is the title
of a new 76 page publication from Afri (Action from Ireland),
written by Marianne Osborn. Given the mysteries of the Balkans
for many (and greater mysteries about intervention or the
lack thereof) this analysis of the conflict since independence
in 1991 is very welcome. Contact; Afri, 134 Phibsborough Road,
Dublin 7, ph. 01 - 8827581 / 8827563, e-mail afri@iol.ie
and web www.afri.buz.org
Peace News and Undercurrents have an anti-war video and audio
CD-ROM out entitled "Informed Dissent" which includes,
among a wide variety of items, Noam Chomsky talking about
US terrorism and related matters, various anti-war activists
doing their thing, and a feature on globalisation and the
media....all in all a useful and informative production, available
at £6.50 (payable to Peace News) to Peace News, 5 Caledonian
Road, London N1 9DY, or e-mail admin@peacenews.info
- Meanwhile most of those receiving this
issue of NN as a paper mailing will have a card to return
for free sample issue of Peace News 'for nonviolent revolution'.
OK, OK, we're a bit behind with this one but better to mention
it now than never. A useful collection of essays (over forty
pages A4) on religion and violence covering Theravada Buddhism,
Protestant Christianity, Islam, Judaism and other reflections
appears in the World Council of Churches publication 'Thinking
Together' No. 39 (June 2002) produced by their Office on Inter-Religious
Relations which is online
(though you'll have to search a bit after that).
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