Location: Belfast
Date: 7 November 2018
Time: 13:00 - 15:00
How do local communities repair themselves after a violent political conflict?
After a peace agreement is reached, the headlines cease and people start to get on with their day-to-day lives. However, hostilities between communities can linger on, particularly in areas that suffered human rights violations. How do communities move on and put the past behind them?
This event examines the answers to some of these questions. Researchers will talk about the Transitional Justice Grassroots Toolkit, which was initially designed to facilitate a local conversation about transitional justice between political ex-prisoners and former members of the Irish Republican Army, the Ulster Defence Association and the Ulster Volunteer Force in North Belfast. The toolkit was devised by and for local communities wishing to move past their differences, as a way of supporting, informing and strengthening local action for peace. Hundreds of local people took part, and the toolkit has been translated into Arabic, English and Spanish for others to use in their own setting.
This event about the toolkit programme will be of interest to community workers, NGOs, policymakers and academics who are interested in social justice in troubled and fragile states.
Further information
- Venue: The MAC Belfast, 10 Exchange Street West, Belfast BT1 2NJ
- Contact: Eilish Rooney (email: e.rooney@ulster.ac.uk)
- Register to attend on the event website
- Twitter: @ESRCFestivalNI
This event is organised by Ulster University.