@OsborneTweets @NI_CRC @IEFNI @MartinJMagill @RuralCommNet @QuintinOliver @corrymeela @Stoxo @ErvineLinda @HolywellT @VIEWdigital "Peace needs pushed up the Hill" #greatpun #sotrue #peacebuilding #SharedFuture
“To change the riverflow of history”: Constitutional pasts and futures
“To change the riverflow of history”: Constitutional pasts and futures by Allan LEONARD 8 May 2018 Political and legal scholars, peacemakers and peacebuilders convened at the Royal Irish Academy to review and discuss potential constitutional relationships between Ireland and the United Kingdom, especially vis-a-vis Northern Ireland and the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and the import of... Continue Reading →
Do wars really end? A Mother Brings Her Son to be Shot (Sinead O’Shea)
Do wars really end? A Mother Brings Her Son to be Shot (Sinead O’Shea) by Allan LEONARD 19 April 2018 A Mother Brings Her Son to be Shot, a film directed by Sinead O’Shea and screened at the Belfast Film Festival at the Queen’s Film Theatre, is a story about Philip O’Donnell Jr and his... Continue Reading →
Ensuring trustworthiness, quality and value in all our work
Ensuring trustworthiness, quality and value in all our work by Allan LEONARD 12 April 2018 The Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) hosted an information seminar at Belfast City Hall, for staff from government organisations in Northern Ireland who have responsibility for statistics in their work (creating and/or applying). The audience was welcomed by... Continue Reading →
Ephemera to direct our future: Introduction to the Peter Moloney Collection
Ephemera to direct our future: Introduction to the Peter Moloney Collection by Allan LEONARD 10 April 2018 Peter Moloney, who collected Troubles-related ephemera for over 50 years, presented a personal lecture on how it began, why he decided to donate it all to the Tower Museum, and how he’ll keep on collecting. The negotiation to... Continue Reading →
Reflected Lives: broadening the canvas of the past
Reflected Lives: broadening the canvas of the past An oral history project at a Belfast interface by Allan LEONARD 10 April 2018 Joe O’Donnell (Strategic Director, Belfast Interface Project) told the audience that the auspicious date for today’s exhibition launch was no accident. With reference to the much-publicised conference at Queen’s University Belfast, featuring key... Continue Reading →
Coming to terms with our interdependencies #GFA20
Coming to terms with our interdependencies #GFA20 by Allan LEONARD 10 April 2018 On the 20th anniversary of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, it is easy to neglect the peace process that preceded it. My reference point is the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement, because I learned about the efforts of then Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald the year before,... Continue Reading →
Peacebuilders reunion @revhayab @MoakleyChairUMB @QuintinOliver @ForumCities @stratagemint @GlobalPeace #Kaduna #Nigeria #peacebuilding
“Poetry and photography share a lot in common,” she adds. “They both address what cannot be seen, and they both communicate in fragments. A photograph is not a film, and a poem is not a novel.” #photography #photojournalism #poetry #peacebuilding https://x.com/aftermathproj/status/966707580293726209
Using our past better: Launch of Divided Society
Using our past better: Launch of Divided Society by Allan LEONARD 22 January 2018 Twenty and two years in the making, the Linen Hall Library launched its website, Divided Society, which features documentary material in its Northern Ireland Political Collection, of the peace process during the 1990s, with over 500 journal titles available. It is... Continue Reading →
Rewrite our future! Washington Ireland Program Thanksgiving Ball 2017
Rewrite our future! Washington Ireland Program Thanksgiving Ball 2017 by Allan LEONARD 25 November 2017 The Thanksgiving Ball has become an annual tradition of the Washington Ireland Program, held at this time of year in recognition of the generosity of families in America who host visiting participants. Tonight’s event, with several hundred attending at the... Continue Reading →
Peace by piece: Launch of interface exhibition @DoJ_Interfaces
Peace by piece: Launch of interface exhibition @DoJ_Interfaces by Allan LEONARD for Shared Future News 20 November 2017 Ulster University’s York Street campus, home to the schools of art and architecture, served as a fitting venue for the launch of an interface exhibition sponsored by the Department of Justice and featured ongoing community-based projects as... Continue Reading →