The Good Relations Awards 2026 winners have been announced.
Since 2006, the Good Relations Award has highlighted exceptional achievement in promoting community relations, intercultural work and peacebuilding in Northern Ireland.
Previous Award winners have come from all parts of the region and worked in a wide variety of settings including women and peacebuilding, faith-based work, youth work, community development, cross community work at interfaces, and ethical remembering/commemorative work in a history of conflict.
Good Relations Awards 2026
The Good Relations Awards 2026 winners have now been announced. There were seven award categories in our Awards programme, and it was delivered in partnership with The Executive Office.
Brian Dougherty MBE received the Community Relations Council Exceptional Achievement Award for Peacebuilding in recognition of more than 25 years dedicated to peacebuilding and community development across the region.
Brian, as Chief Executive of the North West Cultural Partnership, has championed cultural expression as a platform for dialogue and reconciliation, helping communities engage constructively with identity, heritage and shared cultural space.
Read the Good Relations Awards 2026 press release.
Find out more about the winners on our dedicated website: https://goodrelationsawards.com/
Previous Winners
Here’s the complete list of all previous winners of the Community Relations Council Exceptional Achievement Award (peacebuilding):
- 2026 – Brian Dougherty MBE
- 2025 – Kathy Wolff
- 2024 – Betty Carlisle MBE
- 2023 – Angila Chada
- 2022 – Dr. Eamon Pheonix
- 2021 – Baroness May Blood
- 2020 – Paddy White
- 2019 – Marion Jamison and Charmain Jones (joint winners)
- 2018 – Eileen Weir
- 2017 – Fr. Gary Donegan
- 2016 – Fr. Martin Magill and Rev. Stephen Stockman (joint winners)
- 2015 – Maureen Hetherington
- 2014 – Chris O’Halloran
- 2013 – Jackie Patton with Michael Doherty (joint winners)
- 2012 – Paul McCrory
- 2011 – Rab McCallum and Michael Acheson (joint winners)
- 2010 – Dr David Stevens and Mary Kelly (joint winners)
- 2009 – Renee Crawford and Jean Brown (joint winners)
- 2008 – Anne Carr
- 2007 – Derick Wilson
- 2006 – Eamonn Deane