New Festival Aims to Spark Ideas on Politics and Culture
Over 35 events at Northern Ireland’s first festival of ideas & politics during 9-15 March The inaugural Imagine! Belfast Festival of Ideas & Politics was launched at Belfast City Hall […]
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Dignity Leadership Training with Dr Donna Hicks, Harvard
The need has never been more urgent for people in leadership positions to be educated in matters related to dignity. The desire to be treated as something of value is […]
Lord Alderdice speaking in a debate in the House of Lords on the role of soft power and non-military options in conflict prevention.
Moved by The Archbishop of Canterbury – That this House takes note of the role of soft power and non-military options in conflict prevention. Lord Alderdice (LD): My Lords, like […]
Lecture by Dr Ofrit Liviatan, Harvard University
Lecture by Dr Ofrit Liviatan, Director, Freshman Seminar Program and Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University, USA. Including the respondents: Lord Alderdice, Professor John Brewer (ISCTSJ, QUB) and Professor Richard […]
One Step Forward: Acknowledging the Past and Building Peace by Andrew Dusek
“You’re very welcome to Belfast. We love visitors—it’s each other we hate.” This guileless greeting perplexed me during my first visit to Northern Ireland in the winter of 2010. It […]
Relationships, identity and the importance of language by Héctor Portillo
I met Lord John Alderdice and Jeffrey Donaldson this October, when they came to our Conflict Resolution Theory course at The Fletcher School to give a talk about their experiences […]
Cultivating a relationship of trust by Kristin Bushby
“The next generation of successful political leaders in Northern Ireland will play to their best hopes, instead of their worst fears.” These words stood out to me during a recent […]
Working with the trauma and wounds by Rabia Altaf
The lecture given by Lord Alderdice and MP Donaldson to Fletcher students had a profound impact on all of us: to hear practitioners of peace building who had a personal […]
CDPB report shows NI benefits from immigration
Northern Ireland is benefiting from immigration. A major new study published today has revealed the substantial economic and social benefits that newcomers bring to our society. Commissioned by the Centre […]
CDPB endorses #CommonPlatform response to the Racial Equality Strategy
Centre for Democracy and Peace Building and the Unite Against Hate campaign endorsed the Common Platform paper and welcomed the partnership approach in addressing racial inequalities in our society. Recent months […]