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Executive

(elected at AGM 03 December 2008)

Kathy Wolff (Chair)
Sinead O'Regan (Vice Chair)
Mark Chapman (Treasurer)
Carol Lundy
Lynn Moffett
Fiona Murphy 

Staff

PEACE III "Steps into Dialogue" Project Staff

Co-ordinator: TO BE APPOINTED
Dialogue Development Worker: Jim O'Neill
Temporary Senior Administrator: TO BE APPOINTED

Profiles

Kathy Wolff

Kathy Wolff

Kathy Wolff is Coordinator of the Newtownabbey Community Relations Forum, which was formed over 10 years ago. She has been working with them for 2 years, but was previously a member for 5 years.  Kathy is also a member of the Ballyclare May Fair, Treasurer of Ballyduff Community Group, a District Police Partnership member, Vice-Chair of the local Ballyclare Police Forum, Chair of Kilbride Viewpoint (local women's group) and a member of Newtownabbey Women's Forum. Kathy is a granny with 4grandchildren. She was widowed 14 years ago. She sees Community Dialogue as the way forward.

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Sinead O’Regan              


Sinead O'Regan

Sinead has over 10 years experience in the field of training, mentoring and employability and has developed expertise and key skills in developing and managing innovative, cutting-edge employability programmes aimed at those hardest to reach and hardest to help.  Sinead established and currently manages Job Assist Centres West Belfast.  JAC West Belfast strives to challenge the exceptionally high levels of unemployment, economic inactivity and poverty in the area by providing mentoring and support to those furthest from the labour market, to remove barriers to employment and ultimately to gain and sustain meaningful employment. 

In a voluntary capacity, Sinead is an Executive Board member of Community Dialogue, and also Newhill Community Association.  Additionally, Sinead is a supervisor with the George Williams College, providing professional development supervision to students on diploma/degree courses in Youth & Community. 

At home Sinead lives with her husband Jim and cats Honey and Bunny.  In her spare time, Sinead immensely enjoys experiencing foreign climes, cuisines and cultures and travels as much as time and resources will allow. 

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Mark Chapman

Mark Chapman has done peace work in Iraq, Jordan, Palestine and Sri Lanka. He is a member of the Society of Friends and in recent years worked for the Friends out of their Belfast centre. During the late 1980s and 1990s he taught in London and before that worked in computers in Liverpool.

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carol Lundy

Carol Lundy



Carol has been employed for the last 8 years as Finance Manager in Shankill Women's Centre.  Previously she worked in the Ulster People's College as finance officer which she did for 10 years.  Prior to that she had a 10 year career break to raise a family of 4.

Carol has been involved with Community Dialogue from its inception in 1997 when she processed payroll on a voluntary basis until CD received funding.  She then became a participant in dialogue sessions and is now a voluntary Board member.

 

In her spare time Carol reads factual books, mostly on politics and history, and likes to travel as far and wide as possible.

 

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Lyn Moffett


Lynn Moffett


Lyn has worked in the fields of conflict resolution and community cohesion since 1991, when she first took up a post in the Centre for the Study of Conflict at the University of Ulster.  She subsequently worked as Project Liaison Officer for INCORE, the International Conflict Research Institute at UU.  

In 2002, Lyn became coordinator of Kilcranny House, a residential centre dedicated to peace and reconciliation, which had been set up by the Nobel Prize winning group, the Peace People.   While at Kilcranny House Lyn developed, managed and delivered a long-term Community Relations in Schools programme; a community relations support programme; and the Community Relations Innovative Support Project, which provided community development support to youth and community groups  as well as opportunities to engage in meaningful single identity and  cross-community work designed to improve community cohesion.

Lyn has over twelve years experience of training and facilitation in both the community and statutory sectors, working with youth and community groups, schools, the PSNI, and council officers. She has devised and delivered training in prejudice awareness, cultural identity, political awareness, communication skills, campaigning and lobbying, community development, Dealing with the Media, Democracy, Tackling Discrimination and Implementing Equality, anti-racism, anti-sectarianism, team building, and environmental awareness.  Lyn has also delivered programmes in Leading Communities, Us and Them, Seeing Sense, Alternatives to Violence and Towards Understanding and Healing- Train the Trainers .

Lyn is a trained Dialogue Facilitator, and has moderated dialogues on policing and justice, flags and emblems, parades, dealing with the past, prisoner releases, paramilitary intimidation inter alia on behalf of organizations such as Kilcranny House, Community Dialogue, Coleraine Borough Council, Moyle District Council, the Junction and Towards Understanding and Healing.  She has also facilitated dialogues and storytelling encounters for a number of organizations who work with victims and survivors of the Northern Ireland conflict. Lyn is a trained mediator and has facilitated agreements in a number of community conflicts relating to the flying of flags, the replacement of murals and parades in the Causeway area.  In addition, she has practical experience of facilitating village communities engaged in the removal of paramilitary murals and ‘re-imaging’ their community. Lyn was a member of Coleraine Strategic Partnership and is currently a social partner on the NE Peace III Partnership.


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Fiona Murphy

Fiona is currently working for Victims and Survivors Trust (VAST) Falls Road. The core focus of this job is to coordinate a small team of staff and volunteers aiming to meet the needs of individuals and families victimised and traumatised as a direct result of the conflict in the North Ireland. 

Prior to her work with VAST, she worked as a community consultant for 4 years.  Starting as a junior consultant, she quickly established a strong database of clients and progressed through the ranks and was promoted to junior partner status in September 2008.

Although Fiona continues to work as a casual consultant she felt drawn to the community sector and wanted to pursue a role where she could help the most vulnerable people within her own native community of West Belfast.

Fiona is currently involved in a number of community/voluntary groups including, Community Dialogue, Women in Sport and Physical Activity (WISPA Shankill Road) and the health sub group of the West Belfast Partnership Board.

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Jim O'Neill


Jim O'Neill


I have been a freelance evaluator and researcher for over 16 years before taking up my current post with Community Dialogue. Most of my work concentrated on the border areas, particularly working on projects funded under the Special Support Programme for Peace and Reconciliation. I have also been involved in a wide range of projects from trade union, community development and global education.

I co founded and am currently co chair of Towards Understanding and Healing, an organisation that uses a story telling process and positive encounter dialogue involving various key players in the Northern Ireland conflict, such as ex security forces, ex paramilitaries and victims/survivors who come together to share their stories. I am also a member of the management committee of the Junction Community Relations Centre in Derry, which has been the hub of community relations activity both in the North West and further afield.

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