Sustaining hope for peace: Global Conflict 2018

Sustaining hope for peace: Global Conflict 2018 by Allan LEONARD 23 August 2018 In partnership with the University of Chicago and its Pearson Institute, Queen’s University Belfast hosted a two-day conference, “Global Conflict: The Human Impact”. This report recounts the first day’s events, which focussed on sharing learning from the peace processes in Northern Ireland... Continue Reading →

There are eight uncanny similarities in the upcoming plebiscite across Colombia on 2nd October, with ours of May 1998: 1. There will be a focussed, sharp six-week campaign only; partly, like us, to avoid ‘unravelling’, but also presenting challenges in communicating a 20,000 word complex, sometimes ‘constructively ambiguous’, legal-jargon text to a confused and uncertain... Continue Reading →

How does Colombian peace deal compare to Good Friday/Belfast Agreement? (Stratagem)There are eight uncanny similarities in the upcoming plebiscite across Colombia on 2nd October, with ours of May 1998:There will be a focussed, sharp six-week campaign only; partly, like us, to avoid ‘unravelling’, but also presenting challenges in communicating a 20,000 word complex, sometimes ‘constructively... Continue Reading →

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