Events

Upcoming Events

  • The CWC Harnessing Equality for Lasting Peace (HELP) project and Community Dialogue in association with the North West Community Network are hosting a seminar entitled Has Cross Border Co-operation and Partnership enhanced the work of Peacebuilding? in The Station House Hotel, Letterkenny on Friday 21st October from 9.30am to 2.30pm. 

    Speakers: Stewart Morris: Donegal YMCA, Ali Mc Allister: Rural Enablers and the host organisations (Community Dialogue, North West Community Network and Donegal CWC) will give short presentations on their experiences of cross border co-operation and partnership.

    Guest Speaker: Ruth Taillon: Centre for Cross Border Studies will present Impact Assessment for Cross-Border Cooperation: an integrated method for capturing the social, economic, environmental and cooperation impacts of cross-border projects and programmes.

 

Recent Events (Steps into Dialogue PIII Project) 

  • The Inner East Outer West Project has just been completed and proved hugely successful. This was a project delivered in partnership with Suffolk Lenadoon Interface Group (SLIG), East Belfast Mission, Short Strand Community Forum and Belfast Interface Project. This involved a series of single identity sessions, cross community sessions across each interface and culminating in a residential which brought all the participants from east and West Belfast together. It provided members of interface communities with the opportunity to share their experiences, challenge perceptions, learn and deepen understanding of each other.

    Inner East Outer West Project Participants
     
  • A fact-finding visit by students from West Virginia University took place on 26 May 2011 and was hosted by Community Dialogue at Farset International.
     
  • An Annual return visit by students from the University of Bradford Centre for Conflict Studies took place on 3 June 2011 and was hosted by Community Dialogue at Farset International.
     
  • There was a visit to Belfast by students from Southern Methodist University in Texas which was hosted by Community Dialogue and the Open Hands project in West Belfast.

    Students From Southern Methodist University at West Belfast Peace Wall
     
  • Jim O’Neill, Dialogue Development Worker, gave a series of dialogue workshops at a summer school organised by the University of Limerick entitled Renewing Local Democracy through Civic Engagement.
     
  • A Residential between Parkmore and Drumbeg Residents Groups, Lurgan took place on 8/9 April 2011.
     
  • A cross border seminar was held in Derry/Londonderry in April organised in conjunction with Donegal Community Workers Co-operative and the North West Community Network on the theme of Critical Conversations around cross border community development and peace building.
     
  • The Banner Project was completed in June. This involved a series of dialogue sessions between women on both sides of the border who completed a series of banners depicting the history and culture of their various townlands.

    Women From Newtownstewart Displaying Their Banner

Other Events

  • The Belfast City Council funded Project, ‘Cartoons in Conflict’ ended in May 2011 with dialogue events and exhibitions over the year in various venues such as the Jewish Synagogue, 174 Trust, Duncairn Community Centre and the Belfast Friendship Club.
     
  • The cross border project funded through the CAN Sligo Partnership staged a very successful cultural evening, with food and music provided both by Sligo resident asylum seekers and local people. There was also a dialogue event which was attended by participants from the CAN Partnership who visited Sligo.