Curing Ireland’s
Carbon Addiction
Friends of the Earth has published a report on how Ireland
can do its fair share to tackle climate including a "12-step
programme to cure Ireland's carbon addiction". The plan
recommends specific measures to cut pollution from energy,
transport, homes, offices, industry and agriculture. After
a decade of rising emissions the central proposal is that
the Oireachtas pass a Climate Security Act mandating 3% year-on-year
cuts in climate pollution. Contact Friends of the Earth, 9
Upper Mount Street, Dublin 2, ph. 01- 6394652 and web http://www.foe.ie
You can download this national climate
change strategy document. (pdf file)
A local campaigning group of Friends of the
Earth has started in Belfast – contact Andrew McMurray
ph. 0790 99 00 883.
A great IDEA in development
education
IDEA is made up of 30 organisations working in development
education in Ireland; it was established in 2003 and has been
expanding its membership and programme since then. The goal
of IDEA is the advancement and promotion of development education
in Ireland and its overall vision is “of development
education which is strong, credible and vibrant and impacts
on all sectors of Irish society”. IDEA’s mission
is to encourage and co-ordinate good communications and cooperation
at all levels of the development education membership and
to promote critical awareness of development education. Irish
Development Education Association (IDEA), c/o Self Help Development
International, Hacketstown, Co. Carlow, ph 059 6471175, fax:
059 6471292. e-mail: idea@ireland.com
For more information about becoming a member of IDEA or about
IDEA activities, please contact Patsy Toland at the above
contacts.
Peacebuilding –
Fear of the other
Dublin Peace Committee is organising 3 seminars and a conference
during the next 12 months to ask serious questions about peacebuilding.
The first is on Saturday 18th November, 10.00am - 4.00pm at
Churchtown Meeting House, 82 Lower Churchtown Road, Dublin
14. [Luas Stephen's Green to Windy Arbour stop; turn right
for 300m, watch for sign]. The topic – ‘Fear of
the Other’: fear generated within individuals, projection
of that to the other, then dealing with this projection. Speakers
- Miriam Lawlor, psychotherapist, Jude Lal Fernando, Sri Lanka,
Edward Horgan, ex-Irish army/Lebanon and now a peacebuilder.
Tea, coffee and biscuits provided, please bring your own sandwiches.
Even if you can't make the initial seminar but are interested
in receiving further details on the other events, get in touch.
The following 2 seminars are – ‘Fear and Power’,
in Belfast on 24th February, and ‘Fear and Religion’,
in Dublin on 26th May next. The conference will be on ‘Peace
and Complicity’, in Dublin on 29th September 2007. Although
we are a Quaker committee, we want to make it very clear that
anyone interested is welcome. Peacebuilding is an island-wide
concern, let alone worldwide. Contact: Sean McCrum smccrum@eircom.net
or phone 01-679 3279.
Mediation: The Dynamics
of Change and Development
The 8th Annual Mediators Institute Ireland conference takes
place on Saturday 18th (registration commences at 9am) and
Sunday 19th November (finishing 3.15p.m.) at the Heritage
Hotel, Portlaoise, Co Laois. The keynote address is by Dr
Ken Cloke from the USA on ‘Mediation: The Dynamics of
Change and Development’ with other inputs from Brian
O’Byrne, Ger Sweeney, Julie McAuliffe, Colin Fallon,
Tricia Hayes, Eimear Hayden, Lyle McElderry, Majella Foley-Friel,
Ann O’Kelly, Paul O’Connor and Sarah Bird. Some
of the interesting topics include supervision and mediator
practice, organisational culture and structure in generating
conflict, solicitors and mediation, the role of children in
Irish mediation, evaluating family mediation, co-mediation,
mediation in the Equality Authority, conflict in the nursing
profession and mediating in the quantum world.
The non-residential fee for the full conference
is €335 for MII members and €370 for non-members
with reduced rates for Saturday or Sunday only. Accommodation
needs to be booked separately. Registration and further details
can be found on http://www.themii.ie
or by contacting: O'Mara Travel, Secretariat to the MII Conference
2006, Marina House, 11-13 Clarence Street, Dun Laoghaire,
Co. Dublin, ph 01 2366850, fax: 01 2366880, e-mail: MII-Conference@omara-travel.com
The Mediators’ Institute of Ireland is at Montana House,
Whitechurch, Dublin 16, ph. 01-2017526, fax 01-2017526, e-mail:
info@mediatorsinstitituteireland.ie
and web http://www.themii.ie
"Ireland's Role
in International Affairs
- from supporting war to promoting peace"
University of Limerick (UL) on Saturday 11th November 2006
is clearly the place to be for this International Peace Conference
with the Irish Peace Society at UL which has the following
aims: To help peace activists continue their quest for peace
and justice by sharing skills and experiences, and by reviewing
strategy; Examine Ireland's complicity in the wars in Afghanistan,
Iraq, Lebanon/Palestine; Commemorate all those unlawfully
killed in recent wars, including attacks on the United States.
Speakers: Hans von Sponeck, former Assistant
Secretary General of United Nations and head of the Oil-for-Food
Programme in Iraq (1998-2000); Professor Gernot Biehler, professor
of international law at Trinity College Dublin, Craig Murray,
former British ambassador to Uzbekistan.
Workshops are: Legal support for peace activists – practicalities.
Preventing conflict and creating peace by peaceful means,
with Mark Price; Airport neighbourhood watch – practical
issues for monitoring crime and militarisation of your local
airport, with Tim Hourigan, Conor Cregan, and others; Strategic
planning – towards a diversity of strategies for the
demilitarisation of Shannon airport, with Kieran Clifford;
The role of the individual in UNCIVIL society – Upholding
and enhancing the rule of law: practical, peaceful and legal
approaches with Edward Horgan.
Also book launch: “A Different Kind of War: The UN Sanction
Regime in Iraq” by H. C. von Sponeck. Admission free.
Bookings and enquiries: Edward Horgan – edward.horgan@ul.ie,
085-1026631; Fraser Gray – fraser.gray@ul.ie,
087-4167849; Coilín ÓhAiseadha – aatchoo@gmail.com,
086-0603818. Further details: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/79061
Mixed residential communities
in the North
With increasing interest in this topic as the peace process
wends its way, the Institute for Conflict Research’s
latest report, “Shared Living – Mixed residential
communities in Northern Ireland”, is a timely one. It
is written by Jonny Byrne, Ulf Hansson and John Bell, 144
pages, and available in PDF (via website) or paper copies
(from the office). Institute for Conflict Research (ICR),
North City Business Centre, 2 Duncairn Gardens, Belfast BT15
2GG, ph.028 - 9074 2682, e-mail info@conflictresearch.org.uk
and web http://www.conflictresearch.org.uk
Meath Peace Group
Meath Peace Group continues its intrepid journey with the
following meetings: Monday 13th November: 'Towards a Shared
Future' - looking at the Shared Future policy and its implementation
at local level (principal speaker: Duncan Morrow, CEO Community
Relations Council); Monday 29th January: 'The way forward'
- looking at the political situation and the prospects for
devolution There is a possibility of another talk on November
27th - on the aftermath of the Nov 24th deadline (provisional).
Venue: St Columban's College, Dalgan Park, Navan at 8pm. Please
note: Transcripts of recent talks - including discussion on
March 27th 'Devolution and Cross-Border cooperation: prospects
and realities' (speakers Sean Farren, Francie Molloy and Jim
Wells) are available on our website: http://www.meathpeacegroup.org
Contact: Julitta Clancy, Meath Peace Group ph 01-8259438.
HTR: A Day of Private
Reflection
Healing Through Remembering (HTR) have proposed that 21st
June 2007 should be a Day of Private Reflection for people
in Northern Ireland, Britain and the Republic, providing an
opportunity to reflect on the conflict in and about Northern
Ireland. The proposal was launched at a conference in Armagh
in October and a Discussion Paper and Proposal invites responses
by 1st December. Healing Through Remembering, Alexander House,
17a Ormeau Avenue, Belfast BT2 8GD, ph. 028 – 9023 8844,
e-mail info@healingthroughremembering.com and web http://www.healingthroughremembering.org
(click on ‘All our reports’ under ‘Publications’)
Belfast: Living life
in the Faslane
Make Trident History, a local Belfast-based group supporting
Faslane 365, the year-long blockade at Britain's nuclear weapons
& submarine base in Scotland is holding a nonviolent direct
action training day in conjunction with Faslane 365 on Saturday,
18th November. This training is specifically for those already
signed up to join MTH's peaceful blockade at Faslane, 8/9/10
December and for those who are interested in joining. It will
be in the Friends Meeting House, Frederick St, Belfast. More
info/registration details from Mark Chapman, ph: 0773 781
9569, e-mail: make.trident.history@ntlworld.com
For general info on Faslane 365 see http://www.faslane365.org
- For views and news of the last demo at Shannon
see Indymedia
report.
PANA AGM
The AGM of the Peace And Neutrality Alliance (PANA) is about
to take place on Saturday 4th November at 2pm in the Royal
Dublin Hotel, O’Connell Street, Dublin, commencing with
a joint PANA/IAWM (Irish Anti-War movement) public meeting
with George Galloway MP and Ben Hayes of Statewatch. At 4pm
the PANA AGM will start (open but only members can vote).
Over ten years PANA has campaigned for an independent Irish
foreign policy, a reformed United Nations through which to
pursue that policy, and Irish neutrality. Membership is €35
waged, €10 unwaged, group membership rates on request.
PANA, Dalkey Business Centre, 17 Castle Street, Dalkey, Co
Dublin, ph. 01 – 235 1512 / 280 8247 / 289 4315, mobile
087 – 261 1597, e-mail pana@eircom.net
and web http://www.pana.ie
Pax Christi
Human Rights Day, 10th December, sees a special advent mass
celebrated by Bishop Raymond Field, President of Pax Christi
Ireland at Sacred Heart Parish Church, Donnybrook, Dublin
4 at 11.30 a.m. Meanwhile Pax Christi has produced bookmarks
featuring Francis Sheehy-Skeffington – enquire from
the office. Pax Christi Ireland, 52 Lower Rathmines Road,
Dublin 6, ph 01 – 496 52 93 and web http://www.PaxChristi.ie
Irish Human Rights Network
Human Rights Based Approaches to Development: Programme Cycle
Management will take place 1st - 7th September, 2007 at National
University of Ireland, Maynooth; this programme will explore
the principles, policies and practice underpinning human rights
based development and enhance participants’ skills.
International Human Rights Network (IHRN is a non-governmental
organisation supporting others in applying Human Rights Based
Approaches in their work since 1996.), Glenboy House, Oldcastle,
Co Meath, ph/fax: 049 - 8542934, e-mail info@ihrnetwork.org
web http://www.ihrnetwork.org
Emergence - A Festival
of Art, Consciousness & Ecology
This takes place from Wednesday 29th November to Saturday
2nd December (art exhibit extended until 22nd December) at
the Cultivate Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin, ph 01-674 5773.
The talks include The Irish Schumacher Lecture by John Lane,
"Living Simply and Creatively: Psychologically Preparing
for Climate Change", on Friday 1st December at 7.30 pm,
€12 in, and a symposium on Saturday 2nd December from
11 am - 5 pm on the theme "How can we transform our values
and thinking to respond to ecological crises?”, €35.
Fuller
details here.
Cap and Share
Feasta members have been involved in setting up a new campaigning
organisation, Cap and Share, to promote the idea that the
world's emissions of greenhouse gases should be capped –
limited – and the rights to the allowed amount of emissions
distributed on an equal per capita basis to everyone on the
planet. See http://www.capandshare.org
and anyone interested in getting involved should email energy@feasta.org,
or come to the Cap & Share campaign meeting - the presentation
and feedback is on Tuesday, November 7th, at Cultivate in
Temple Bar at 7.30pm. Feasta, 10A Lower Camden Street, Dublin
2, ph 01-405 3615, fax: 01-405 4835, e-mail: mailto:feasta@anu.ie
and web http://www.feasta.org
You can join Feasta, designing systems for a sustainable future,
for €20, or €10 for concessions, giving you the
opportunity to support the foundation's work and entitling
you to two print newsletters, quarterly email bulletins, and
concessions on our events and publications.
Can the UN open new
doors? Is the UN still relevant in a changing world? is one
topic to be addressed by Noel Dorr, who was Secretary General
of the Department of Foreign Affairs (1987-95) and previously
Irish ambassador to London and Irish representative at the
UN in New York; another topic is the obstacles facing the
International Criminal Court. Hosted by the New Ireland Group,
the open public meeting takes place in the Canada Room, Queen’s
University, Belfast at 10.30 for 11.00 on Saturday 11th November
and finishes at 12.30 pm. Further details from e-mail sec.newirelandgroup@ntlworld.com
or on the website http://www.newirelandgroup.com
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