NI Rural Women’s Network partnered with Rural Community Network will be screening – ‘Wave Goodbye to Dinosaurs’.
‘Wave Goodbye to Dinosaurs’ is the extraordinary story of the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition, a cross-community party formed in 1996. by local working and middle class women.
Frustrated with the stalemate of local politics, the women ran a door-to-door campaign to win 2 seats at the historic peace talks, which culminated in the Good Friday Agreement.
Timely and inspiring, Wave Goodbye to Dinosaurs is a compelling example of how grassroots activism can bring about real change.
Thursday 23rd September from 7pm – 8.30pm (via zoom)
Please register using the link below.
Youth work staff and young people will take part together as part of the Mid Ulster Youth voice group to promote Good Relations by engaging in a range of activities and events throughout GR week.
This will include an online social media campaign, addressing cultural barriers, celebrating success and diversity within Mid Ulster and promoting GR within schools and youth settings.
RCN’s Chair John Waddell and Director Kate Clifford commended the Community Relations Council for its support to RCN and the peace process over the last 30 years as part of Good Relations Week 2020.
Churches and faith based organisations…their role in peace building in rural communities
This is one of a series of research/discussion papers which highlight the experience and learning from the activities of the Rural Enabler Programme 2010-2013. This paper highlights the work with churches and faith based organisations in peace building in rural communities
A community conversation on Flags and Emblems across Northern Ireland
Contested Spaces in Urban, Rural and Cross Border Settings.
A report commissioned by Community Relations Council and Rural Community Network
This publication is the culmination of a series of research papers carried out jointly by the Community Relations Council and Rural Community Network in 2006. It provides a rural lens on issues of segregation, exclusion, sectarianism and racism and explores how these manifest differently in rural communities. The publication also includes a series of recommendations that provide a framework by which to develop solutions.
The thematic areas explored include: Community Development and Community Relations Flags and Emblems Housing Interfaces Race and Ethnicity Children and Young People and Rural Institutions.
This report is the third and final one in a series which sought to document the experiences of minority communities in rural Northern Ireland. Co Fermanagh was selected as the research area and the research set out to provide an insight into how ethnic minority communities experience life in Northern Ireland and how the majority community receives and treats minorities in its midst. The report does not attempt to comprehensively represent in any way the stories or lives of any of the communities interviewed.
One of a number of policy discussion documents prepared for Rural Community Network by Dr Sally Shortall of Queen&rsquos University. Women&rsquos opportunities for participation and recognition in rural Northern Ireland, in decision making, in rural development and farming, are well below many of our European counterparts. This paper provides an illustration of the reality that in some societies, it is the least powerful who experience the consequences of unbalanced policy initiatives.