Northern Ireland Community Relations Council - Services - Community Relations Groups

Contact: David Holloway

LINC Resource Centre
218 York Street

Tel: 028 9035 1450

E-Mail: admin@communitydialogue.com

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Aims and Objectives

Strategic Aims for 2009-2012

1. To reinvigorate the membership base & develop an efficient and reflective learning organisation.

2. To promote & deliver dialogue processes that embrace best practice.

3. To develop & maintain a team of dialogue practitioners.

4. To create better understanding of policy documents that affect our lives.

Strategic Objectives for Aim 1:

1.1 To update & consolidate all databases.

1.2 To recruit new members & partners groups.

1.3 To communicate & engage with the members.

1.4 To raise the profile of the work of the organisation.

1.5 To develop spaces for reflection & learning.

Strategic Objectives for Aim 2:

2.1 To promote & deliver the ‘Dialogue on the Ground’ Project.

2.2 To facilitate a series of dialogues around interface barriers.

2.3 To learn from our own practice & the practice of others.

2.4 To share good practice in dialogue.

2.5 To explore & promote innovation in dialogue practice.

2.6 To evaluate effective & inclusive dialogue & post dialogue practice

Strategic Objectives for Aim 3:

3.1 To recruit a panel of dialogue practitioners.

3.2 To provide training for the panel of dialogue practitioners.

3.3 To develop a training manual/handbook for dialogue practitioners.

3.4 To provide support& team building to the panel of dialogue practitioners.

3.5 To continue to research the training & support needs of practitioners.

3.6 To continue developing a range of progressive training opportunities for dialogue practitioners.

Strategic Objectives for Aim 4:

4.1 To deliver the ‘Unravelling the Jargon’ Project.

4.2 To identify key policy documents to address.

4.3 To make key policy documents accessible & understandable.

4.4 To explore the use of a range of different media to use to make policy documents more accessible to all.

4.5 To network with a wide range of groups & organisations around policy.

4.6 To develop a service for policy consultations

Projects and Activities

Quickfire Dialogue Sessions

Initial Dialogue ‘feeler’ sessions took place at the Baron Hall Newtownabbey, The Junction Derry/Londonderry, Moygashel Dungannon

Consultative Group on the Past Unravelling the Jargon document series of consultations

Beads Workshop with the Kilcooney Women’s Group

Women in Search of Peace Dialogue session

Bordering on the Possible cross border peace building Dialogue

Crevagh Women’s Group and Families beyond Conflict 2 Dialogues

Strabane and District Community Network 2 Dialogues

Visit by African delegation on behalf of British Council Dialogue between delegates and peace activists from Ireland

Consultation on Parading legislation

Ex Border Service Personnel of ex servicemen from Donegal who served along the border during the Nortern Ireland conflict 2 Dialogues

Cartoons in Conflict exhibition from the Middle East incorporating 3 Dialogues in Belfast and derry

Six Week Sessions

Ard Carn Men’s Group

Ard Carn Women’s Group

Ard Carn Women’s Group and Connswater Women’s Group

Drumbeg Residents Association and Parkmore Residents Association Lurgan

Northern IrelandCommunity for Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Women’s Common Path Network Turf Lodge Belfast

Banner Cross Border Project involving women from Raphoe Donegal and Castlederg Tyrone

Residentials

2 Facilitators Residentials

Banner Project Residential

Women’s Common Path Network

Women in Conflict involving 5 women’s groups throughout Northern Ireland

Drumbeg Residents Association

Unravelling the Jargon

Documents published to date have included the following:

Consultative Group on the Past

Policing and Criminal Justice

St. Andrew’s Agreement

Hillsborough Agreement

Social Apartheid: Is this what we really want?

Community Relations Council

Community Dialogue

Aims and Objectives

Projects and Activities