In a work capacity, I was invited to attend the Spirit of Enniskillen's annual Together schools conference at the Wellington Park Hotel, which brought together over 100 Year 13 pupils from 20 schools across Northern Ireland, to explore and…

OFMDFM Junior Ministers Martina Anderson and Jonathan Bell sponsored a panel discussion marking Inter-Faith Week, organised by the Northern Ireland Inter-Faith Forum: "Accommodating faith and diversity in Northern Ireland".

The panel discussion was chaired by Liam Clarke, and the panellists were: Steven Agnew MLA, Sammy Douglas MLA, Anna Lo MLA, and Conall McDevitt MLA.…

Community Relations Council have recently uploaded their final video from CR week's Policy Confrence Reconciling the Books: The Case for Sharing - its worth a look as is some of the others including Nigel Roberts ( Co Director or the World Development Report 2011) interview

As a Politics undergraduate I was forced to trawl through the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey for an assignment on the SPSS system. Now, a few years after graduating, I can look at the recent results without enduring the pain of trying to understand what a chi square is. 

First of all, some encouraging statistics: 62% of people in Northern Ireland think relations between Catholics and Protestants have improved.…

On Thursday 26 May, the Community Relations Council hosted ‘Reconciling the Books: The Economic Case for Sharing’. The event, chaired by BBC’s Yvette Shapiro, saw community and political leaders come together to discuss what Northern Ireland needs for a stable economic future.



Opening the conference, Tony Kennedy, chair of CRC’s policy and communications committee, spoke of the need to make community relations part of a government programme. He described how mutual…

Just two days before the Assembly election, six candidates from the East Belfast constituency hold a hustings event about Northern Ireland’s shared future in Belfast’s Knock Presbyterian Church. Mark Simpson as a host and an active audience quiz them during two hours about their views on cross-community and some bread and butter issues.







Thanks to Knock Presbyterian Church for the audio recording (via Alan in Belfast).



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Peter Emerson, the founder member of the NI Green Party and, according to Professor Arend Lijphart of California, “one of the world’s top experts on election rules,” urges all members of the Green Party and indeed…

On Saturday 16th April in the Ulster Hall’s Group Space, young people from North Belfast involved in a Public Achievement cross-community youth programme launched a series of short films they have made to highlight the lived experiences of young people in interface communities. Our…

An HTR documentary journey about telling stories from the conflict

A documentary journey in response to the Belfast Sarajevo Initiative was held at the Queen's Film Theatre.  Called ‘We Are Not Afraid’ and organized by…

By Jordi Gabarro Llop for Northern Ireland Foundation

Saturday 2nd April 2011. Ronan Kerr, a 25 Catholic police officer, only graduated from police training college three weeks ago, is killed in a car-bomb explosion. He is the second policeman to have been killed since the…

By Lucy Proudlock for Northern Ireland Foundation

Irish Peace Centres (IPC) hosted a ‘Creative Fringe’ event at the Alliance Party Conference last month. They used different mediums, including a ‘Question Time’-type session with a panel of speakers, to share ideas on how to make peace…

By Rebecca Curran for Northern Ireland Foundation

On Saturday January 29th, I took a venture into a place I did not think I would go on a social visit. Upon meeting with two of my school friends, I decided to feed my curiosity and visit the Frankie Quinn photography exhibition that was…

By Lucy Proudlock for Northern Ireland Foundation

The Alliance Party’s forty-first annual conference, entitled “A Northern Ireland that Works”, took place last month at Dunadry Hotel. Following the theme of most speeches during the day, conference closed following its second motion: “Shared…

By Lucy Proudlock for Northern Ireland Foundation

The Federation of Small Business hosted a panel-led audience discussion at the Alliance Party Conference last month. Speaking, were Angela McGowan, Chief Economist for Northern Bank; Siobhan McAleer, founder of the Mortgage Shop; Seamus…