30/06/2016
We were asked to contribute to a class looking at Northern Ireland as a case study of a society coming out of conflict. We provided various handouts produced by the Community Relations Council but used videos from the Creating Community resource to illustrate the background of the troubles and the role of religion and politics. After the break we talked about Corrymeela and its approach to peace building and reconciliation. Some of the students were taken with the ideas of story telling, safe space and the building of relationships. They asked about how to start telling stories which led us into such things as walking debates, use of objects and puppets, safe space and rules of engagement such as speaking for oneself etc. From the class responses it was clear that racism is an issue for many of the students. Work to be done there then!
Thank you to Neil Lewis for inviting us to take the class.