The formation of the Belfast Conflict Resolution Consortium (BCRC) in 2007 came as a result of over 12 months discussions between republican, loyalist and community activists engaged in conflict management at Belfast’s interfaces. These discussions focused on the need to provide a citywide approach enabling longer term strategies rather than short term isolated actions at [...]

General Terms The Troubles: Name given to the period of armed conflict in Northern Ireland, from the late 1960s and usually taken to have ended with the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. Loyalist/Unionist: Supporters of the continuing status of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom. Generally, though not exclusively, an ideology held by Protestants within [...]

9 November 2009: John Peacock of YouthLink explains how a group of Northern Irish young people marked the fall of the Berlin Wall at a Belfast Peace Wall Following on from the discussion paper ‘A Process for Removing Interface Barriers‘ by Tony Macaulay last year, a group of youth workers working in interface communities in [...]

Meeting With the Enemy As part of the 2010 Independent Christmas Appeal, David McKittrick reports on how Healing Through Remembering are healing old wounds by bringing former foes together Healing Through Remembering brings together people affected by the conflict in and about Northern Ireland, and gives them the opportunity to share their experiences and opinions. [...]