Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation

Summer School 2009

Glencree, Ireland

Co. Wicklow

What the South Needs to Hear – What the North Needs to Say

29-30 August, 2009

An opportunity to listen, discuss and reflect on the issues facing peacebuilders in the new Northern context, with informed speakers, a friendly atmosphere, and the beauty of the Wicklow hills. Saturday 29 August

12.00pm on Registration and Lunch

1.45pm Welcome:

David Bloomfield, Glencree

2.00pm Politics

TBA, SDLP

TBA, DUP

TBA, Sinn Fein

TBA, UUP

4.00pm Coffee

4.30pm Transitional Justice and Victims Issues

TBA

Reatha Hassan, SAVER-NAVER, Markethill, Co Armagh

Mark Thompson, Relatives for Justice, Belfast

6.30pm Conclusion

7.30pm Dinner in the Armoury Cafe

8.30pm After-Dinner Speaker: Nuala O’Loan

Sunday 30 August

8.30pm Breakfast

9.30am Communities in Transition (1): Ex-Prisoners and Ex- Paramilitaries

Avila Kilmurray, Director, Community Foundation NI

Gerry Foster, Teach na Failte, Belfast

TBA, EPIC, Belfast

11.15 Coffee

11.30am Communities in Transition (2): Women’s Changing Roles

Cliodhna Geraghty, South Armagh Rural Women’s Network

Reatha Hassan, SAVER-NAVER, Markethill, Co Armagh

Norma Shearer, Women’s Training Network, Belfast

1.30pm Conclusion

1.45 Lunch

Registration Form

• Full costs €150/ £120 includes all meals, accommodation on Saturday night in shared rooms, and fees. If you require further accommodation, please contact Geraldine – see contact details below.

• €15/£17 per person supplement applies for those who wish to book twin/double rooms, bringing the residential cost to €165 / £137 per person.

• The non-residential cost, which includes all meals and summer school fees, is €100/ £75.

A limited number of bursaries are available. Please tick the Bursary box below if you would like to apply for this.