‘It’s not about quotas: integrated education adapting to new social contexts

‘It’s not about quotas’: integrated education adapting to new social contextsby Allan LEONARD4 March 2025 The 2025 Dunleath Lecture, hosted by the Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education (NICIE), delved deeply into the ongoing challenges and evolving perspectives surrounding integrated education in Northern Ireland. Held at Ulster University’s Belfast campus, the event featured key speeches from notable figures... Continue Reading →

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Monitoring peace progress in Northern Ireland: a wellbeing framework

Monitoring peace progress in Northern Ireland: a wellbeing frameworkby Allan LEONARD4 March 2025 While much of the media coverage of the launch of the Northern Ireland Executive’s latest Programme for Government (PfG) rightly focused on the specific, quantifiable targets (or lack thereof), a complementary “wellbeing framework”, with dozens of regularly updated metrics, has received little comment. The... Continue Reading →

05/03/2025 0

Belfast Stories: a vision for inclusivity and growth

Belfast Stores: a vision for inclusivity and growthby Allan LEONARD13 February 2025 Organised by NICVA, about 20 members of the voluntary, community, and social enterprise sector toured the landmark art-deco former Bank of Ireland building at the top of Royal Avenue, to learn more about Belfast City Council’s Belfast Stories, a project that will be a public... Continue Reading →

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Peacemakers’ ball: woven Belfast stories

Peacemakers’ ball: woven Belfast storiesby Allan LEONARD8 February 2025 In coloured chalk on a black board, a sign outside Belfast’s city centre communal space at 2 Royal Avenue invited passersby to come in and participate in Peacemakers, a craft exercise to make stitches with alternating colours of yarn on an oversized French loom, then return to... Continue Reading →

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Peace process as ‘a long, slow murmuration’: the Mark Durkan interviews

Peace process as ‘a long, slow murmuration’: the Mark Durkan interviewsby Allan LEONARD27 January 2025 The John and Pat Hume Foundation organised three events to launch a book by Graham Spencer — The SDLP, Politics and Peace: The Mark Durkan Interviews. Dawn Purvis chaired the event held at Ulster University, interviewing both author and subject, revealing insights from... Continue Reading →

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The afterlife of Troubles’ memories

The afterlife of Troubles’ memoriesby Allan LEONARD10 December 2024 Why do survivors of the Troubles conflict in Northern Ireland recall what they do when providing their oral histories to interviewers? What is the collective effect? In a seminar, “The Afterlife of Feelings in Oral Histories of the Troubles”, Ulster University INCORE visiting professor Graham Dawson... Continue Reading →

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Policing divided societies: Kosovo and Northern Ireland

Policing divided societies: Kosovo and Northern Irelandby Mihane HOXHA and Allan LEONARD29 November 2024 Would further exchanges between the police services of Kosovo and Northern Ireland be beneficial, or have recent challenges proved too great? Olga Stefanović is from the Serbian community, from the village of Lešak in the Leposavić municipality (in northern Kosovo). She... Continue Reading →

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‘Nothing for the likes of us to be afraid of’: Me Oul Segocia review

‘Nothing for the likes of us to be afraid of’: Me Oul Segocia reviewby Allan LEONARD13 November 2024 “We’re quiet, decent folk. There’s nothing for the likes of us to be afraid of,” says Danny, who wants to assure his fiancée Eileen that the increasingly deteriorating security situation in their neighbourhood won’t seriously affect them... Continue Reading →

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Kosovo revisited: crucial role of civic conversations remains

Kosovo revisited: crucial role of civic conversations remainsby Allan LEONARD5 September 2024 On the desk of my hotel room in Pristina was a postcard inscribed, “Dear Allan, Welcome back to Kosovo! As a returning visitor we’re sure you’ll enjoy your time here!” It was signed “AJK Team”, from the Association of Journalists of Kosovo, the... Continue Reading →

01/10/2024 0

Impossible Peace: a conversation with Brian Rowan

Impossible Peace: a conversation with Brian Rowan by Allan LEONARD 5 September 2024 In a room packed with dozens of guests at the newly established Black Mountain Shared Space, journalist Mervyn Jess facilitated a conversation with Brian Rowan about his Impossible Peace project, to marry old cassette tapes with a document archive to mark the... Continue Reading →

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‘Imagine a time we can draw hope together’: dreams and visions from Korean children

‘Imagine a time we can draw hope together’: dreams and visions from Korean children by Allan LEONARD 8 January 2024 From 8–12 January, Ulster University hosted at its Belfast York Street campus an exhibition of drawings by children of Korea and its diaspora. The drawings were created as part of programmes in partnership with Okedongmu... Continue Reading →

17/01/2024 0

‘A floating process’: drafting the Downing Street Declaration

‘A floating process’: drafting the Downing Street Declaration by Allan LEONARD 6 December 2023 The thirtieth anniversary of the Downing Street Declaration was marked by a panel discussion organised by ARINS (Analysing and Researching Ireland, North and South) and held at the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) in Dublin. RIA member Professor Katy Hayward chaired the... Continue Reading →

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