Mediation service launch
by PRG
The Peace and Reconciliation Group (PRG) are pleased to announce
the setting up a local Mediation Service in the city due to
getting funding from Peace 11. The group will provide a comprehensive
Mediation Service and a complete Conflict Management Training
Programme from their offices at 18 / 20 Bishop Street, Derry
/ Londonderry. PRG’s mediators are carefully selected
and trained. Michael Barr who is an accredited mediator and
has just recently received his certificate from the Family
Mediators Association has been appointed as Mediation Service
Co-ordinator, The panel of Mediators can deliver / design
accredited and non-accredited programmes for specific groups,
organisations and from the business sector to suit their needs.
There is normally a cost for the mediator’s time although
in some circumstances the funding bodies may meet the cost.
In respect of our training programmes, costs can be negotiated
with respective groups. If you feel this service can be of
any help to you please ring Michael Barr at the PRG office,
028 - 71 369206. PRG, 18/20 Bishop Street, Derry/Londonderry
BT48 6PW, website http://www.peaceprg.co.uk/
Mediation Northern Ireland
(MNI) courses
Open access courses from Mediation Northern Ireland coming
up include: Handling Life’s Conflicts (14th, 21st February),
fee £240; Foundation Training in Mediation (OCN accredited
Level 2, 1st, 2nd, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th March), £770;
Handling Aggression (27th February), £175, appropriate
to a variety of settings. Courses run from 9.30 – 4.30.
For details and booking, contact Máire at MNI, 83 University
Street, Belfast BT7 1HP, ph 028 – 9043 8614 or e-mail
info@mediationnorthernireland.org
Website http://www.mediationnorthernireland.org
Quaker House Belfast:
Moving, recruiting
When the project was established in 1982, Quaker House was
situated in a quiet area where discrete meetings could be
held. The work has developed considerably so it was felt time
to move to premises more appropriate to current programme
and, during the last 5 years, the area has changed dramatically.
After lengthy discussions, the Quaker House Management Committee
decided to move and relocate in a city centre office alongside
other NGOs. This took place in early November 2007 and the
Representative, Anne Bennett, is in the new office. The e-mail
address has changed: representative@quakerhousebelfast.org
Quaker House, 40 Linenhall Street, Belfast, BT2 8BA. Ph 028-
90249293.
Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland - Quaker House
Belfast project is looking for either one individual or for
two people job sharing for up to 3 years with peacebuilding
experience of post conflict situations and of Northern Ireland.
Further information is available from http://www.quakerhousebelfast.org
Closing date for completed applications is Wednesday 28th
February 2007.
Power and the Other
Dublin Peace Committee’s 2nd seminar is on ‘Power
and the Other’, at Irish School of Ecumenics, 683 Antrim
Road, Belfast on Saturday 24th February, starting at 10.00
with coffee, 10.20 first speaker, ending 4.15 pm. Speakers:
Dr. Mamoun Mobayed, psychiatrist lecturing at Queen's University
Belfast, Chair of NI Muslim Family Organisation and Chair
of NI Interface Forum; Martina Weitsch, Quaker Council for
European Affairs, Brussels, Belgium; Mannete Ramali, Ambassador
of Lesotho. Speakers will each approach the relationship of
a minority group to a larger group and how they approach such
a situation from their own experience and needs. For more
information: Sean McCrum, phone: 01 (00 353 1 from North)
- 679 3279, email: smccrum@eircom.net
Shell to Sea rallies
There is a national day of support on Friday 16th February
at Bellanaboy, Co Mayo to show the support of the country
for the community of Erris in its opposition to Shell; see
website at http://www.corribsos.com
and click on ‘Protests and events’. There will
be buses from Dublin and Belfast. There is a national demonstration
in Dublin on Saturday 23th February at 2 pm, assembling at
Parnell Square. The website includes a list of contacts around
the country.
Afri: ‘Politics
of moral force’, climate change
Afri recently published a short, 16 page (A5) pamphlet entitled
“The Politics of Moral Force – Davitt and Saro-Wiwa”,
written by Mark Garavan. It is available at €3 (€2
goes to Shell to Sea campaign, €1 for publishing costs).
They are organising an event for young people, ‘(Re)Thinking
action on climate change’ from 11 – 4 on Wednesday
14th March at the Cultivate Centre, Temple Bar. Dublin; details
from the Afri office. Afri, 134 Phibsborough Road, Dublin
7, ph. 01 – 8827581, e-mail; afri@iol.ie
and website http://www.afri.ie
Corrymeela: website,
events, couple wanted
Corrymeela’s website at http://www.corrymeela.org
gives a full run down on upcoming open events at the Ballycastle
Centre and at Knocklayd, including a retreat on ‘The
Two Sides of St Patrick’ from 16th – 18th
March, and ‘Radical Love’, 18th –
20th May for members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender
communities; the Knocklayd programme includes a wide variety
of events. You can also sign up on the website to receive
e-mail news from Corrymeela. Corrymeela are also requiring
a new resident volunteer couple for Knocklayd starting in
August 2007 -contact Anne McDonagh at 028 9050 8080 or by
e-mail at annemcdonagh@corrymeela.org
‘Friends of Corrymeela’, who pay a minimum subscription
of £24/€36/$40 waged or £12/€18/$20
unwaged, receive ‘Corrymeela’ magazine 3 times
a year. Corrymeela, 8 Upper Crescent, Belfast BT7 1NT.
Norn Iron group at Faslane:
5 arrested
The Belfast-based Make Trident History group provided the
core for a Northern Ireland expedition to Faslane Trident
missile base in early December. Despite some atrocious weather,
the group made their mark in different ways, including a lock-on
lie down protest on the road near the main, South Gate. Five
people were arrested for ‘breach of the peace’
(beside a nuclear missile base!) and held overnight as a result
of the lock on: Ann Patterson, Philip Mangold, Mairead Corrigan
Maguire, Miriam Turley and Mark Chapman, but, like the vast
majority of blockaders they have not been charged. The group
will be returning – get in touch. E-mail make.trident.history@ntlworld.com
or ph. 0773 – 7819569; the Faslane 365 website is at
http://www.faslane.365.org
‘Making peace with the past’
open meetings
Healing Through Remembering and its Truth Recovery & Acknowledgement
Sub Group are hosting a series of open meetings to facilitate
a wide and informed discussion on options for truth recovery
following the publication of Making Peace with the Past: Options
for truth recovery regarding the conflict in and about Northern
Ireland The meetings will consist of a brief presentation
on the report followed by an open discussion session. All
are welcome to attend and participate in the discussion.
Dates for the meetings as follows:
Belfast meeting took place 5th February;
Monday 12th February.
Armagh, St. Patrick's Trian @ 7pm; Tuesday
20th February.
Newry, Newry Arts Centre @ 7pm;Tuesday 27th
February.
Dungannon, Community Relations Council @
7pm; Monday 5th March.
Ballymena, Seven Towers Leisure Centre @
7:45pm; Tuesday 13 March.
A shared future with
Meath Peace Group
The next meeting is on Monday 12th February at 8 pm: ‘A
Shared Future: challenges for interface areas’, venue
St Columban’s College, Dalgan Park, Navan, Co. Meath.
Speakers from Institute for Conflict Research, Belfast, Belfast
Interface Project, Ulster Political Research Group and Intercomm
(North Belfast). For further details: contact meathpeace@hotmail.com
or phone 01 – 8259438. See also website: http://www.meathpeacegroup.org
Irish School of Ecumenics
(ISE); comings and forthcomings
There is a wide variety of news from the Irish School of Ecumenics
(ISE) where new appointments in the last year have included
Dr Terry Duffy to International Peace Studies and Dr Gladys
Ganiel to Reconciliation Studies; Eileen Gallagher is working
part-time as an Inter-Church Fora Field Officer with the Education
for Reconciliation programme in the North.
The ISE Trust is appointing an Executive Secretary
for a 3-year fixed period to develop relationships between
the Irish School of Ecumenics and individuals, churches and
other bodies dedicated to ecumenism, reconciliation and peace,
both in Ireland and abroad, and to develop and oversee its
fund-raising activities. Management experience at a senior
level is a requirement and the closing date is 23rd February.
Queries to isedir@tcd.ie or ph. 01-2601144, ext. 101.
Forthcoming international events include Globalisation
and Ethics seminars, in Dublin on 21st - 23rd February when
speakers include François Houtart and Lieve Troch.
From 3rd – 5th July, The European Slave Trade: Character,
Causes, Challenges conference will take place in TCD. Website
http://www.tcd.ie/ise
The Organic Centre,
Rossinver, Co Leitrim
Located at Rossinver, 8 miles from Manorhamilton, and established
in 1995, the Organic Centre aims to provide training, information
and demonstrations of organic gardening, growing, farming
and sustainable living. It has a wide variety of different
kinds of gardens, a wetland sewage disposal system, a shop
with seasonal plants, vegetables, tools and a mail order seeds
sale, and also houses The Grass Roof Café , which is
open at weekends and organises food events throughout the
year.
The Centre is open all year round from 10am
to 5pm, except Christmas and New Year. Admission charge for
the gardens and events (from 19th March to 30th September)
is €5 adults, children and Friends free, €3 concessions.
As well as more than 120 courses on growing and soil fertility
and rotation, there are courses on ecological housing, sustainable
energy, relearning lost skills, and a conscientious lifestyle.
Some courses are run in Co Clare especially for people in
the south of the country and also in Co. Wicklow. Course fees
in Leitrim are typically €85 for a day. Educational tours
for groups can be booked on request. A full programme is available
free on request; or you can visit their well-designed website
at http://www.theorganiccentre.ie
which includes an order form which can be downloaded. You
can support the work in The Organic Centre by becoming a friend,
annual individual membership €30.
The Organic Centre organizes Community Food
Projects in conjunction with the HSE in the Northwest and
Peace and Environment Projects funded by Peace II Programme
Cross-Border Consortium. More information available from the
project Coordinator Hans Wieland at the centre.
Contact: The Organic Centre, Rossinver,
Co Leitrim. Tel: 071 - 98 54338, fax 071 - 98 54343, and e-mail
organiccentre@eircom.net
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