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  • Devolution of Policing and Justice

    11 March 2010

    The Community Relations Council has welcomed the Assembly decision this week to support the devolution of Policing and Justice responsibilities to the NI Executive.
  • Live Issues Conference

    11 March 2010

    The Community Relations Council is holding its annual practitioners conference today at the Armagh City Hotel.
  • Shared Space - from Jargon to Action

    04 March 2010

    Getting real about shared space is the theme of an important event being held today (Thursday 4 March) at Farset International on the west Belfast interface and organised by the Community Relations Council.
  • CSI News Welcomed

    24 February 2010

    The Community Relations Council welcomes the announcement that the First Minister and deputy First Minister have agreed a community relations strategy for Cohesion, Sharing and Integration.
  • Community Relations Core Funding Awards announced

    22 February 2010

    The Community Relations Council (CRC) has announced 12 core-funding grant awards to voluntary and community sector organisations engaged in community relations initiatives. In total these awards are worth over £530,000.
  • Hillsborough Agreement Welcomed

    05 February 2010

    The Agreement between the DUP and Sinn Fein, endorsed today at Hillsborough Castle by the Prime Minister and the Taoiseach, has been welcomed by the Community Relations Council (CRC).
  • Randalstown Car Bomb

    08 January 2010

    The murder attempt on a police officer this morning in Randalstown is totally condemned by the Community Relations Council (CRC).
  • Action Call for a New Normality

    14 December 2009

    ‘The opportunity of our time is for ‘real action for a new normal’ not ‘back to normal’’ says Duncan Morrow, Chief Executive of the Community Relations Council, in the Council’s Annual Review which is published today (Monday 14 December).

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  • The Challenges of Peace

    14 December 2009

    The Community Relations Council today launched its latest research publication ‘The Challenges of Peace’ which summarises 11 research projects conducted under the EU Peace and Reconciliation Programme as a contribution to Peace-Building in Northern Ireland.
  • PEACE III Theme 1.1 Conference: Learning the Lessons, Planning for the Challenges Ahead

    11 December 2009

    The Consortium of Community Relations Council and Pobal held a Conference, “Learning the Lessons, Planning for the Challenges Ahead” on Thursday 10th December for the fourteen Local Authority led Peace and Reconciliation Partnerships in Northern Ireland and the six southern border counties.
  • New Community Relations Council

    18 November 2009

    The Community Relations Council has appointed 10 new Members to its Board following an open and public recruitment process. The new members join 12 existing Members.
  • Peace III: Working in Partnership

    16 November 2009

    The PEACE III Theme 1.1 team from the Community Relations Council and Pobal held a workshop on Thursday 12th November for the District Council Peace Partnerships to discuss partnership working. Attendees gathered at the recently renovated Town Hall in Portrush and enjoyed a presentation by Jean Brown of Suffolk Lenadoon Interface Group who talked about the initial struggles in partnership working but the overall benefits. Jean commented that once a partnership is formed and sustained everything else can grow and be achieved from there.
  • Shared Space

    22 October 2009

    The Community Relations Council has just published the eighth volume of its research journal Shared Space. Published twice a year the journal addresses themes of peace, conflict and community relations in Northern Ireland.
  • Promoting Peace

    05 October 2009

    ‘As we reach the fifteenth year of peace processing in Northern Ireland since the IRA and loyalist ceasefires of 1994 peace has proved to be a more complex and difficult process than can be imagined by pictures of former enemies united as leaders of a new dispensation.’
  • CRC expresses concern about proposed Victims and Survivors Service

    28 September 2009

    The Community Relations Council has expressed concern about the proposed victims and survivors service and is calling on victims groups to study the Executive’s proposals carefully as they will have significant consequences for the future of many groups.
  • Cohesion, Sharing and Integration

    16 September 2009

    Duncan Morrow responds to Hugh Orde's statement on Cohesion, Sharing and Integration.
  • Good Relations Strategy

    16 September 2009

    The Community Relations Council has responded to the release today by Sinn Fein of its Rights and Respect document which sets out the party’s approach to Cohesion, Sharing and Integration.
  • Lessons From Patten

    10 September 2009

    Ten years since the release of the Patten Report what lessons have been learnt from the process of change in policing in Northern Ireland and how can they help build a new public sector on the basis of a shared rather than a divided society?
  • Review of Victims Funding

    01 September 2009

    The Community Relations Council (CRC) is undertaking a review of funding for Victims and Survivors Groups. The Review Group includes representation from the Victims Unit, OFMDFM and the Commission for Victims & Survivors, Community Relations Council members and members of CRC's Core Funding Committee (Victims + Survivors).
  • Parades

    15 July 2009

    Duncan Morrow, Chief Executive of the Community Relations Council, says: ‘There is a horrible sense of déjà vu about all these events.  But one thing we should know: Differences about parades cannot be resolved through violence.  The evidence that violence around these issues deepens polarisation and prevents progress is evident from our history. 
  • Sectarian Attacks

    09 July 2009

    Sectarian Attacks The Community Relations Council condemns the attacks on four Catholic churches in Ballymena this morning.
  • Initial Response to Consultative Group on the Past

    06 July 2009

    Duncan Morrow, CRC’s Chief Executive, says: ‘Northern Ireland is a deeply divided society and the conflict which we have come through has created much suffering and hurt which will not be quickly or easily overcome. The Community Relations Council believes that in order for society to move forward in building a shared, inclusive and peaceful society we must deal effectively with our past. We propose that peace building is properly recognised as a process which allows communities to work through and beyond the legacies of the past. This will involve investing time and resources in building relationships which acknowledge both differences and interdependence.’
  • Loyalist Decommissioning

    Decommissioning, loyalist

    29 June 2009

    CRC Chief Executive Duncan Morrow says: ‘Putting weapons beyond use is a welcome decision by loyalist paramilitary organizations and we hope the process is taken to completion.  The threat which these weapons represented cast a shadow over the peace process and both Catholic and Protestant communities. With the armed threat gone loyalists and nationalists should be encouraged to develop better relationships between their communities and build for a shared future.’
  • Attacks on Romanians condemned

    17 June 2009

    The Community Relations Council condemns the racist attacks on Romanians in South Belfast this week. Duncan Morrow, CRC Chief Executive says:

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  • Sectarian Murder

    26 May 2009

    The Community Relations Council (CRC) condemns the killing of community worker Kevin McDaid in Coleraine on Sunday and the attack on his wife and neighbours.
  • Appointment of Community Relations Council Board Members

    19 May 2009

    The Community Relations Council (CRC) is seeking to appoint seven members to the Council from 1 September 2009. CRC is a sponsored body of Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister and is committed to leading change to end sectarianism and racism and to a shared and better future for all.
  • Jean Brown and Renee Crawford receive Community Relations Award

    01 May 2009

    Two women who reached across one of Belfast’s most contentious peacelines to bring polarised communities together, today (Thursday April 30, 2009) jointly received a prestigious award for their important work.
  • Sharing will boost the Economy say Business Leaders

    30 April 2009

    Business leaders will consider the potential for improved community relations to boost Northern Ireland’s future economic prospects at a conference in Newtownabbey today (Thursday April 30, 2009).
  • Division a bigger threat to future of NI economy than global crisis

    27 April 2009

    Business leaders support efforts to tackle segregation
  • Community Relations Week North West Launch

    22 April 2009

    The North West accounts for over one third of all events in the 2009 Community Relations Week programme which features a total of 140 events across Northern Ireland. Council areas represented at the North West launch in the Guildhall included Derry City Council, Coleraine Borough Council, Moyle District Council, Strabane District Council, Limavady Borough Council and Ballymoney Borough Council.
  • CR Week Plans Unveilled

    20 April 2009

    Preparations for Community Relations Week got underway today (Monday April 20)
  • The Challenge of Change

    24 March 2009

    “The Challenge of Change”, Interface Working Group (IWG) Conference in Belfast An important conference will be held on Friday 27 March 2009 in Farset International, Belfast. This has been organised by the Community Relations Council on behalf of the Interface Working Group, made up of key interface agencies and government departments.
  • Peace Rallies

    11 March 2009

    The Community Relations Council welcomes the trade union organised peace rallies held today around Northern Ireland to protest at the killings of members of the security forces carried out by republican dissidents.
  • Attack on PSNI

    10 March 2009

    The Community Relations Council (CRC) condemns the fatal shooting of a PSNI officer in Craigavon yesterday.
  • Community Relations Council condemns the attack in Antrim

    09 March 2009

    The Community Relations Council condemns Saturday night’s attack in Antrim, claimed by the Real IRA, which has led to the death of two soldiers and the injury of four others including two civilians.
  • What Made Now in Northern Ireland

    02 March 2009

    A new book has been published by the Community Relations Council which aims to give those who live and work here, and those visiting or looking at us from afar, a better understanding of the tangled web of history, politics and identity that has gone in to the making of Northern Ireland today.
  • “The Challenge of Change”, Interface Working Group (IWG) consultation events in Belfast

    27 February 2009

    A series of important public consultation meetings will take place next week in Belfast, leading to a conference at the end of the month, on the issue of interfaces. These have been organised by the Community Relations Council on behalf of the Interface Working Group, made up of key interface agencies and government departments.
  • Peace Lessons

    15 December 2008

    ‘Peace is an economic issue. The drive to prosperity is not an alternative to addressing division- the two must be tackled together.’ This is one of the lessons drawn by Duncan Morrow, Chief Executive of the Community Relations Council, in the Council’s Annual Review which is launched today (Monday 15 December).
  • Threats to Community Workers in North Belfast

    27 November 2008

    The Community Relations Council has condemned the threats issued this week against community workers and called for them to be withdrawn.
  • Still a Divided Society

    04 November 2008

    The Community Relations Council congratulated all those who acted to ensure that both the parade and protest on Sunday were largely peaceful and called on the government to publish its policy and strategy for good relations as a matter of urgency.
  • Homecoming Parade 2nd November

    30 October 2008

    The Community Relations Council today underlined the importance of peaceful and responsible behaviour by all those involved in parading or protesting on Sunday 2nd November, including all spectators.
  • Small steps help turn page to shared future

    13 October 2008

    Small steps being taken in the community to build a shared future have been captured in a new book compiled following a public consultation. The book of 100 Small Steps produced by the One Small Step Campaign includes examples of projects, initiatives and gestures taking place in communities across Northern Ireland to heal division and break down barriers. Senator George Mitchell wrote the book’s foreword. The book will be launched on Monday 13th October 08 at 7. 30 pm in the 174 Trust, North Belfast. Copies will be provided to libraries, schools and community groups.
  • Community Relations Council releases Annual Report

    09 October 2008

    The Community Relations Council has released on to its website its Annual Report for last year (2007-08). In his foreword to the Report the new Chair of the Council, Tony McCusker, said: ‘While the Council has a wide ranging role including advising the government on all good relations matters, it is its work in support of community-based initiatives which remains at the core of building a shared society here. The list of grants awarded and projects supported is a testimony to the commitment and initiative of ordinary people in Northern Ireland in their determination to help create a better society where there is mutual respect and understanding. The Council is proud to have supported them in their work.’
  • Gift of Time

    30 September 2008

    A Certificate Award ceremony took place on Tuesday evening 30 September in Corick House, Clogher, for those involved in the Accredited Befriending Volunteer Programme.
  • Stoneyford Beacon

    23 July 2008

    CRC is dedicated to building a fair, inclusive and shared society based on the principles of equality, respect for diversity and the interdependence of us all. Our funding is designed to build trust though supporting inter-cultural and inter-community relationships and preventing and reducing tension, violence, intimidation and threat.
  • Small Steps help turn page to a Shared Future

    02 July 2008

    Small steps being taken in the community to build a shared future have been captured in a new book compiled following a public consultation. The book of 100 Small Steps produced by the One Small Step Campaign includes examples of projects, initiatives and gestures taking place in communities across Northern Ireland to heal division and break down barriers. Senator George Mitchell, who wrote the book’s foreword, took delivery of the first copy off the press. The book will be launched and made available to the public after the summer.
  • Campaigner Receives Community Relations Highest Award

    30 April 2008

    Anne Carr peace campaigner, receives the Community Relations Award for Exceptional Achievement from Tony McCusker, Community Relations Council Chairman.
  • Ten Years after the Agreement - Reconciliation Postponed?

    30 April 2008

    As part of Community Relations Week the Community Relations Council is today (30 April) holding its annual policy conference at the Europa Hotel in Belfast. In the year that marks 40 years since the first civil rights marches, ten years since the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and one year since the restoration of devolution, the conference is using a good relations lens to ask what now lies ahead.
  • Community Groups Converge To Share Best Practice

    29 April 2008

    A special conference designed to share innovations and best practice in youth reconciliation work will take place in Belfast as part of Community Relations Week (26th April - 3rd May 2008).
  • Major economic push will fail without a shared society

    28 April 2008

    Efforts to create a world-class Northern Ireland economy will fail if division in society is not also addressed, according to the chief executive of Northern Ireland’s Community Relations Council (CRC). Speaking to mark Community Relations Week, which includes more than 140 events across Northern Ireland this week, Dr Duncan Morrow says that improving and expanding the economy must go hand-in-hand with a major push to end intimidation and segregation.
  • A Sustainable Peace?

    07 March 2008

    The Community Relations Council has published a book based on research conducted under the EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation (Peace II). Entitled ‘A Sustainable Peace?’ the publication contains articles by 12 researchers on themes covering politicians, former political prisoners, trade unions, the voluntary sector, interface conflict, truth recovery processes, and young people.
  • Homelands to Townlands

    18 January 2008

    Produced by Westway Films for UTV, with the assistance of the Community Relations Council and Northern Ireland Screen, “Homelands to Townlands” presents some of the very personal, human stories behind the cold facts and figures of immigration.
  • Programme for Government

    16 January 2008

    ‘Without a practical and detailed peace plan’, according to CRC Chief Executive Duncan Morrow, ‘the Programme for Government risks returning Northern Ireland to a culture of public denial and avoidance about sectarianism, discrimination and now racism’.
  • New CRC Council Members

    28 November 2007

    The Community Relations Council today announces the names of 10 new additional Council members who will be joining the existing members of its Board.
  • Expert in Conflict Transformation Visits Belfast

    23 November 2007

    John Paul Lederach.John Paul Lederach is Professor of International Peacebuilding at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana (USA) and is a Distinguished Scholar at the Eastern Mennonite University in Virginia, USA
  • Victims Groups discuss Dealing with our Troubled Past

    29 October 2007

    The Community Relations Council (CRC) hosts its fourth annual Victims Conference on 29th and 30th October in Enniskillen. In attendance will be over 50 groups working with victims and survivors of the Troubles.
  • Dealing with the Legacy of the Past

    08 October 2007

    Acknowledging the conflict of the past while also working for a future based on peace and justice is the theme of a week long visit to Northern Ireland by Professor Donald Shriver, President Emeritus of Union College, New York. Drawing on his practical experience of reconciliation in post-war Germany and Japan, in the USA after the civil rights campaign, and in Rwanda and South Africa, Professor Shriver has been an influential and critical thinker about issues of public acknowledgement, remembrance and commemoration in American society.
  • Attack Condemned

    21 September 2007

    The Community Relations Council was disturbed to learn that the Lisnaskea premises of the victim support group Firinne was destroyed last month in an arson attack and that this outrage has now been followed by death threats against the organisation’s co-ordinator Bernice Swift.
  • International Fund for Ireland announces funding of €13m for cross border Community Bridges Programme

    04 May 2007

    The International Fund for Ireland today launched its Community Bridges Programme with the announcement of €13 million (STG9 million) being made available to encourage community relations, reconciliation and cross border activities over the next 3 years.
  • Training Youth For Citizenship

    03 May 2007

    Building Democratic Communities Together is the theme of a research report launched today by the Community Relations Council and aimed at encouraging the training of young people in democratic civic practice.
  • Influential Community Worker's Exceptional Achievement Rewarded

    01 May 2007

    One of Northern Ireland’s most influential community relations activists has been rewarded for his 37-year career at the epicentre of efforts to build a shared future. Dr Derick Wilson, who began his career in 1970 as a youth worker in Sandy Row/Roden Street with the NI Community Relations Commission went on to pioneer the intellectual framework for today’s community relations activity, has today (Tuesday May 1) been presented with the Community Relations Council (CRC) annual award for exceptional contribution.
  • Policy Conference

    01 May 2007

    Macedonian expert to address Belfast event on conflict transformation
  • Hate Crime Initiative Launch starts off Community Relations Week

    30 April 2007

    An event to launch a Northern Ireland Housing Executive initiative to tackle hate crime will kick off the biggest week in the community relations calendar this morning (April 30). The event at Springfarm Community House within Antrim’s Springfarm estate is the first event in Community Relations Week 2007, which includes more than 150 events across Northern Ireland.
  • 150 events to take place during Community relations week

    20 April 2007

    The countdown to the biggest date in the community relations calendar beings today (April 20, 2007) at a showcase event for Community Relations Week. Thousands of people will participate in the programme of events between April 30 and May 6, which includes more than 150 events to highlight the vital work that goes on year round to help build a shared future.
  • Befrienders support for Victims of the Troubles recognised

    02 April 2007

    A Day of Celebration was held today (2 April) at Baronscourt with participants from the victims’ sector across Northern Ireland to mark the presentation of certificates for the newly accredited Volunteer Befriending Programme.
  • Party Manifesto Call

    05 February 2007

    The Community Relations Council has today called on all political parties in Northern Ireland to highlight good relations issues in their election manifestos.
  • Annual Report 2006

    19 December 2006

    The Community Relations Council has published its Annual Report for the year 2005-06. According to Duncan Morrow, the Council's Chief Executive, “While it is clear that there can be no long term sustainable reconciliation without real political decisions and agreement, the Community Relations Council's work in 2005-06 shows how much can be done in advance of such decisions.”
  • Shared Space, Issue 3

    08 December 2006

    The Community Relations Council has just published the third issue of its research journal Shared Space. The journal contains five articles and a book review.
  • ‘Are We Fit for the Future?’

    23 November 2006

    ‘Are We Fit for the Future?’. This is the title of a major conference organised by the Community Relations Council for over 180 community and voluntary activists whose business is the building of peace in Northern Ireland.
  • Breaking Down Barriers To Employment

    17 November 2006

    The report, which was officially launched by the CRC today, investigates social exclusion amongst young adults from interface areas of Belfast, focusing on unemployment as a feature of sectarianism and the ongoing legacy of conflict.
  • Interface Conference

    08 November 2006

    The Belfast Interface Project, in partnership with the Community Relations Council (CRC), is today (Wednesday) holding a conference ‘Belfast Interface Communities: Building A Shared Future’ at the Spires Conference Centre in Belfast.
  • Shared Living- Mixed Areas

    30 October 2006

    The Community Relations Council welcomes the launch today by the NI Housing Executive of a new mixed housing pilot project in Enniskillen.
  • Victims Conference

    23 October 2006

    The Community Relations Council (CRC) welcomes to Northern Ireland Dr Yael Danieli a clinical psychologist from New York, and an international expert in trauma treatment and prevention, who is attending a special CRC Victims and Survivors conference in Limavady this week.
  • Shared Living and Mixed Areas

    04 October 2006

    More needs to be done to support those wishing to live in mixed communities, where Protestants, Catholics and ethnic minorities live together in relative harmony. This is one of the conclusions of a research report published today by the Institute for Conflict Research with the support of the Community Relations Council, funded under the European Programme for Peace and Reconciliation.
  • Death of Dr James Hawthorne

    07 September 2006

    The Community Relations Council deeply regrets the sad news of the death after a brief illness of Dr James Hawthorne
  • Sharing over Separation

    05 September 2006

    As talks towards the restoration of devolution begin in earnest, the Community Relations Council (CRC) today calls on all parties to place the building of a Shared Future at the centre of their priorities. In the light of published government policy on ‘A Shared Future’ CRC also calls on government and all political parties to produce clear and measurable policy commitments together with the necessary resources to ensure that the vision of Sharing rather than Separation becomes the new reality.
  • Segregation not increasing

    24 May 2006

    Residential segregation in Northern Ireland between Protestants and Catholics has not increased for at least 15 years and probably has remained stable for an even longer period.
  • £6 million cash boost to support peace and reconciliation

    18 May 2006

    36 community organisations from across Northern Ireland are set to receive a total of more than £6 million in European Union funding through the Community Relations Council (CRC). The cash, provided through the extension of Peace II funding, is intended to help promote 'reconciliation for sustainable peace'.
  • Rooker Launches Good Relations Action Plan

    02 May 2006

    Community Relations Minister Jeff Rooker today unveiled the Government's vision for creating a shared, racism free, future for all the people of Northern Ireland.
  • North West community worker awarded for community relations achievement

    28 April 2006

    One of the North West and Northern Ireland's best known and longest serving community workers has been honoured with an inaugural award for 'exceptional achievement'. Eamonn Deane, director of Londonderry community organisation the Holywell Trust, was presented with the award by the Community Relations Council (CRC) at a special event at the Junction on Derry's Bishop Street today (Friday April 28).
  • Sharing over Separation

    27 April 2006

    The government and the Community Relations Council will today (Thursday April 27) be presented with 90 ideas for government to consider in the implementation of its Shared Future policy.
  • Sharing over Separation

    27 April 2006

    The government and the Community Relations Council will today (Thursday April 27) be presented with 90 ideas for government to consider in the implementation of its Shared Future policy.
  • Teacher Toolkit for Community Relations Launched

    26 April 2006

    Guidelines to support teachers across Northern Ireland in the delivery of community relations programmes are available today.
  • Education and Youth events focus on shared future

    25 April 2006

    The role of education and young people in building a more inclusive society for Northern Ireland will come into focus in the next few days. Community Relations Week, which began yesterday (Monday April 24), includes major events throughout the week (April 24-30) specifically looking at the role of young people and education in building a shared future.
  • Taoiseach adds support for Community Relations Week

    24 April 2006

    Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has added his support for the work that goes on year-round to build a shared future for Northern Ireland. Mr Ahern is backing the Community Relations Council's Community Relations Week, which begins today (Monday April 24). The week, which features more than 150 events across Northern Ireland, has already received endorsement from Prime Minister Tony Blair and US Special Envoy the Northern Ireland Peace Process, Mitchell Reiss.
  • Community Relations Week

    14 April 2006

    Prime Minister Tony Blair, and US special envoy to the Northern Ireland peace process, Ambassador Mitchell Reiss, have thrown their support behind the Community Relations Council's Community Relations Week.
  • From Aspiration to Action 2

    14 March 2006

    The Community Relations Council continued its series of 'From Aspiration to Action' seminars in Belfast today. These seminars will begin the process of devising possible implementation steps to action the aspirations of A Shared Future, Government's Policy & Strategic Framework for Good Relations in Northern Ireland.
  • From Aspiration to Action

    13 March 2006

    Today, Monday 13th March, the Community Relations Council's Chief Executive, Dr Duncan Morrow, launched a series of seminars in Belfast which will take forward the aspirations of A Shared Future, Government's Policy & Strategic Framework for Good Relations in Northern Ireland.
  • Who Cares for the Carers?

    01 March 2006

    Victims and Survivors groups heard today of a cash boost of half a million pounds (£0.5 million) to support their befriending work. The funds are being made available by the government's Victims Unit (OFMDFM) through the Community Relations Council (CRC) to promote one-to-one support of individual victims and survivors.
  • President visits Council

    20 February 2006

    The Northern Ireland Community Relations Council today offered a warm welcome to President Mary McAleese during her first visit to the Council's offices in Belfast. Accompanied by her husband Martin the President was received by Eamonn McCartan, Chair of the Community Relations Council, and by Duncan Morrow, its Chief Executive.
  • Crossings by Alex Webb @ Belfast Exposed Gallery

    02 February 2006

    Belfast Exposed launches its new 2006 gallery programme with an exhibition by noted Magnum photographer Alex Webb. For the past 25 years Webb has been documenting the narrow strip of land between the United States-Mexico borders, here cultural differences between the two countries are blurred and an atmosphere of transience and crossings dominates.
  • EU Grant Awards

    14 December 2005

    The Community Relations Council is pleased to announce its decisions on the award of £3.6 million of grants under the EU Peace II extension programme.
  • A Sense of Belonging

    22 November 2005

    A series of four half hour documentaries looking at the new cultures in Northern Ireland.
  • Live Issues III

    16 November 2005

    The Live Issues conference, held at the Canal Court Hotel in Newry,sought to challenge the perception that 'the other' community getseverything when it comes to funding and resources.
  • Shared Space

    13 October 2005

    The Community Relations Council has published a new research journal on peace, conflict and community relations in Northern Ireland. Called Shared Space the journal aims to publish articles based on current and recent academic research which will add to the process of learning to deal with conflict in a divided society
  • Launch of 'Beyond Sectarianism?: The Churches and Ten Years of the Peace Process'

    20 May 2005

    The Community Relations Council (CRC) is pleased to announce the launch of 'Beyond Sectarianism?: The Churches and Ten Years of the Peace Process', volume 1 of the 'Learning from Peace ll' Project.
  • A Shared Future

    21 March 2005

    The Community Relations Council (CRC) welcomes the publication and announcement today of 'A Shared Future', the Government's Policy and Strategic Framework for Good Relations in Northern Ireland.
  • Young people more optimistic about community relations

    10 March 2005

    Yong people are more optimistic about community relations, despite the increasing polarisation of politics in Northern Ireland in the last 18 months, a major research report revealed today (Thursday 10th March 2005).
  • 150 events to tackle sectarianism and racism in community relations week

    07 March 2005

    Thousands of people across Northern Ireland are today (Monday 7th March) set to engage in a major assault on sectarianism and racism during the biggest week in the community relations calendar. Community Relations Week, organised by the Community Relations Council (CRC), will feature over 150 events across Northern Ireland this week (7-13 March).
  • A Shared Future - still the only show in town

    07 March 2005

    One of the clichés of the last ten years in Northern Ireland is that the peace process is stronger and deeper than the political process. At the very least, this has to mean that the failure of politics to produce agreement on a shared constitution does not mean that there is an appetite for violence and killing, bombing and shooting as a way to resolve disputes. Even without political agreement on a way forward, there is nearly unanimous agreement that we must not go back. Despite years of polarisation and segregation, the bottom line is that there really is no alternative to sharing the future together.
  • NI Politicians Talk "Shared Future" with the US Consulate and Community Relations Council

    07 March 2005

    On March 8, the U.S. Consulate and the Community Relations Council will co-host an informal discussion at the Consulate offices with the five major political parties and a wide variety of civic leaders on how to move forward toward a "shared future." The event is part of "Community Relations Week," which runs from March 7-13 with events across Northern Ireland.
  • Victims and Survivors Conference - "Serving Victims, Serving the Community"

    07 March 2005

    The Community Relations Council, with funding support from the Victims Unit, has organised a residential conference for 7th and 8th of March 2005 for groups working with victims and survivors of the NI Troubles. This conference entitled ”Serving Victims, Serving the Community” is aimed at providing space for funded groups to focus on the current issues that affect them in Northern Ireland and gives them an opportunity to reflect on their work and network with other groups. The conference is taking place at Hilton Hotel in Templepatrick.
  • Live Issues Conference

    16 November 2004

  • Good Relations Framework Launch

    29 September 2004

    The publication, A Good Relations Framework- an approach to the development of good relations, will be launched by the Community Relations Council at Belfast City Hall on Wednesday 29 September 2004.
  • Working Towards a Shared Society

    28 May 2004

  • Annual Report Launch

    05 November 2003

    Launching the Community Relations Council's Annual Report for 2002-03 Dr Morrow paid tribute to the work that was currently being done to build a more peaceful society in Northern Ireland, but warned that 'reconciliation is a long slow process, not a single event.'
  • Anti-Racism in the Workplace Week

    04 November 2003

    The Community Relations Council recognises that racism is as big a problem as sectarianism in Northern Ireland and supports the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, the Irish Business and Employers' Confederation, the Construction Industry Federation and the Equality Authority in their Anti-Racist Workplace Week campaign. The week runs from November 4th - 8th 2002.
  • Visit by Peacebuilding Expert

    21 October 2003

    The Community Relations Council is hosting a major conference tomorrow (Wednesday 22 October) on peacebuilding for community relations activists in Northern Ireland. The guest speaker is the renowned international expert on conciliation and mediation, John Paul Lederach.
  • A Shared Future

    19 May 2003

    The Community Relations Council has organised a public consultation meeting to encourage voluntary and community groups to respond to the Government's proposals on improving relations in Northern Ireland . The meeting is taking place on Tuesday 20 May at the Fitzwilliam International Hotel at the Belfast International Airport .
  • Review of Community Relations Policy and Practice in Northern Ireland

    28 January 2003

  • £7 million cash-boost to bring "reconciliation for sustainable peace"

    16 December 2002

  • Building Community Relations

    10 December 2002

  • Community Relations Council to Administer £3 million Core Funding Scheme

    03 December 2002

  • Giving Sectarianism the Boot

    22 August 2002

  • Queen's and President's Award Winners

    25 June 2002

  • Too Young to Notice

    25 June 2002

  • Cultural Diversity Research Awards 2002

    22 January 2002

  • From Jerusalem to Belfast

    07 January 2002

  • Celebrating Religious Diversity at Hillsborough Castle

    11 October 2001

  • Changing Towards a Society Free from Sectarianism

    20 September 2001

  • Displaying Popular Belief

    29 August 2001

  • The Story of Us

    24 May 2001

    Getting Beyond Niceness
  • Creating Common Ground

    08 May 2001

  • Cultural Diversity Research Awards 2001

    01 March 2001

    Cultural Diversity Research Awards 2001
  • Churches Working Together

    09 February 2001

    Churches Working Together
  • Building a Shared Future: Community Relations Week

    01 February 2001

    Building a Shared Future: Community Relations Week
  • Launch of Multi-Faith Wallchart 2001

    18 December 2000

    Launch of Multi-Faith Wallchart 2001
  • Community Relations Report

    09 November 2000

    Community Relations Report
  • Impact of European Peace Funding

    31 August 2000

    Impact of European Peace Funding Community relations work: not easy but necessary
  • Celebrating Diversity

    30 August 2000

    Celebrating Diversity
  • Learning from the Peace Process

    14 June 2000

    Learning from the Peace Process
  • Cultural Diversity Fellowships

    18 May 2000

    Cultural Diversity Fellowships
  • Airport Prayer Room

    23 February 2000

    Airport Prayer Room
  • Defining Identity

    28 January 2000

    Defining Identity
  • Launch of Multi-Faith Calendar 2000

    20 December 1999

    Launch of Multi-Faith Calendar 2000
  • Review of Victims Funding

    15 March 2010

    The Community Relations Council is undertaking a review of funding for Victims and Survivors Groups. The Review Group includes representation from the Victims Unit, OFMDFM and the Commission for Victims & Survivors, Community Relations Council members and members of the Core Funding Committee (Victims + Survivors).
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