Saturday, April 25th
St Columban’s College, Dalgan Park (10am-5pm).
Places limited; booking essential
09.30-10.00: registration/tea and coffee

Session I (10.15): ‘Dealing with the Past’ and Healing on these Islands (panel discussion: Rev. Dr Harold Good, Brian Feeney, Seymour Crawford. Chaired by Michael Reade, LMFM)

Session II (12 noon): ‘Peacebuilding in practice’ (presentations from groups involved in: community and North-South dialogue, inter-church dialogue, victims’ support and shared heritage: Cookstown Inter-Church Forum, Cavan Family Resource Centre, Department of Foreign Affairs Reconciliation Fund and others. Chaired by Roy Garland (Irish News columnist and founder member of the Guild of Uriel, a cross-border, cross-community dialogue group founded in 1995.)

Session III (2.30pm): ‘Empowering young people’ (presentations and discussion on programmes for young people in NI and the Republic - dealing with conflict, mediation, non-violence, identity, prejudice awareness and human rights). This will include a presentation on the Meath Peace Group transition year programme which has been running in various Meath secondary schools since 1995: speakers: Rob Farmichael (INNATE), Sean O Baoill (MNI and Meath Peace Group schools facilitator), Billy Tate (Belvoir Park primary school), Ronnie Hassard (Ballymena Academy), Anne Molloy (Amnesty), Joe Murray (AFRI), Michael O’Sullivan (St Columban’s Dalgan Park)

Booking essential: email: meathpeace@hotmail.com

Seminar funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs Reconciliation Fund