Our Programmes

Capturing and Sharing the Learning

Reflective, action-based research
Core Group

Participants with leadership potential/roles in communities embark on journey of deep dialogue
Faith and Peace

Uncovers the role of faith in cultivating positive relationships between people, and addressing divisions caused by faith
Good Relations Training

Accredited and non-accredited training
Pilgrim Trail

Group storytelling out of which relationships are built with the ‘same’ and the ‘other’
Planting Seeds, Cultivating Peace

Spread the learning and deepened relationships from the core group process within participants’ local areas
Re:Mapping

Single-identity programme, occurring as part of a parallel process across an interface/generation/locality/national identity divide
Leading Ladies

Leading Ladies builds the capacity of women to step into their own leadership at their own level

Pádraig Ó Tuama's blog

Holding the Tension Wisely

Submitted by Pádraig Ó Tuama on Tue, 15/11/2011 - 15:48

From June 1-2 of 2011, the Irish Peace Centres held a working conference at the Corrymeela Centre in Ballycastle, Co. Antrim. The conference, “Religious Ethics and Human Rights working conference”, brought faith leaders, faith practitioners and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) advocates together for discussion.

LGBT experiences of Faith & Church in Northern Ireland.

Submitted by Pádraig Ó Tuama on Sat, 03/09/2011 - 15:33

In early 2011, the Irish Peace Centres put out a tender for researchers to write a report on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender peoples' experiences of Faith and Church in Northern Ireland. This report is now avaiable as a download.

Furthermore, this report will be launched at 3.30pm on Wednesday, September 7th, 2011 at the Crescent Arts Centre in Belfast.

IPC's Faith & Peace work reflecting on Ronan Kerr, Lent & Judas.

Submitted by Pádraig Ó Tuama on Mon, 11/04/2011 - 10:57

If you head on over to the Being Blog, you'll find a link to a piece I wrote on Ronan Kerr.

In the meantime, let me give laudation and praise and goodness to those same folks who produce the finest first-person engagement with religion, ethics, meaning and ideas on the radio.

Let them have bread.

Submitted by Pádraig Ó Tuama on Tue, 27/07/2010 - 11:43

A few years ago, I was co-ordinating a dialogue programme between leaders of the Christian and Muslim faiths in Belfast on the question of the meaning of Forgiveness in the sacred texts of each faith.

I had become aware that certain publicly voiced stereotypes were prescribing to each sentiments that the faithful of each faith would both deny with their words and defy with their actions.

So, for four Wednesdays, we gathered. I was keen to make it a warm space of welcome, and wondered how to do it.

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