Summer Institute in Northern Ireland: Lessons in Community Peacebuilding
Jul 8, 2022
- Jul 18, 2022
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McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies
Northern Ireland, UK
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The summer institute will focus on the enormous achievements of local activists and agencies in bringing Armagh to its current state of peace, through years of community dialogue, negotiation, and the formation of new institutions and processes.
Representing a chance for participants to engage with local peacebuilders, this ten-day program aims to deliver mutual benefits for participants and locals. Participants learn about the Northern Ireland conflict, get an intimate perspective of the methods and practices used to address this dispute and in dialogue with local practitioners and critically evaluate their effectiveness in Northern Ireland and their utility in other contexts.
The program will be led by Professor Marie Breen-Smyth, a native of Northern Ireland who has written extensively about conflict in a range of settings. The institute’s faculty contains a range of experts and practitioners from Northern Ireland and the US and is organized in partnership with a consortium of local residents, International Peace Education Resources (IPER). This local consortium will organize the logistics, participate in classes and visits with the US participants.
The ten-day institute will focus on the achievements of the past and the key contemporary challenges still facing peacebuilding in Northern Ireland: dealing with the past and provision for victims: memorials; parading; flags and paramilitaries. A background and overview of the Northern Ireland conflict will be provided at an event this fall (date TBD) for potential participants on campus prior to the field visit to Northern Ireland. The program will begin with a survey of all these issues, with expert speakers on each topic and then focus in more detail on two of these issues: dealing with the past and parading.
Participants will stay in en-suite accommodation in the family-run Charlemont Hotel in the City Center where classes will also be held. In addition, the program includes visits to Belfast with a tour of the city’s peace lines and political murals and a visit to the ancient city of Derry/Londonderry. Other trips and visits can be organized and advice offered for participants with particular interests, program permitting.
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Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security and Global Governance
John W. McCormick Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies
University of Massachusetts Boston
Presents
Summer Institute in Northern Ireland: Lessons in Community Peacebuilding
Engage in a life changing intellectual journey.
Encounter inspirational community change makers.
Explore three beautiful cities, Derry Londonderry, Armagh, and Belfast while learning from local peacebuilders.
Magee College, Derry Londonderry
Program dates: July 8-18, 2022
Learn more about this unique study abroad opportunity. Program participants learn about the Northern Ireland conflict, get an intimate perspective on the methods and practices used to address this dispute, and interact with local practitioners who have worked to achieve the current state of peace in the region. Students who attend the institute can earn three to six credits and the institute is open to both undergraduate and graduate students. Please email conresglobal@umb.edu for more information about this exciting program.
Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security and Global Governance
Phone: (617) 287-7489
Email: conresglobal@umb.edu