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The PEACE III Programme for Co Louth has
been operational since 2008 and is being implemented by the Co Louth
Peace and Reconciliation Partnership . Phase I of the Peace III
Programme, worth €2.8million has supported a range of peace building
activities focusing on the needs of minority communities – faith and
ethnic minorities, young people, older people, and the cross border
community. The peace programme in Co Louth has covered the geographical
area of the local authority. The county borders with Monaghan to the
east, Armagh to the North and to the east, divided by Carlingford Lough
and the Newry Canal in County Down.
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As a result of the Northern conflict, Co Louth has a number of unique characteristics:
- Significant numbers of displaced people who moved from the North/Northern Ireland because of the conflict and who were eventually housed in local authority housing estates, particularly in Dundalk – Cox’s Demesne and Muirhévnamor. For the most part this movement took place in the 1970’s and 1980’s;
- There are remote and isolated rural areas to the north and east of the county where large military installations present throughout the Conflict have left their legacy (Harvey et al, 2005). Areas such as Shelagh, Hackballscross and Culloville to the east; and to the north the rural mountainous area of the Cooley Peninsula;
- There are small areas of minority faith communities throughout the rural and urban areas of the county - in the Cooley Peninsula, Dundalk and Drogheda areas in particular.
- During the last decade there has been a very significant influx of international migrant communities settle in the area. For the most part these communities comprise refugees and asylum seeking people from Africa. They too have settled for the most part in the county towns of Dundalk and Drogheda.
The peace programme in Co Louth is now entering a Phase II (2011-2013) with a renewed focus on those target groups and communities. Phase II builds on the Phase I programme and is the result of an extensive community engagement process which took place during 2010.
The purpose of this new programme links in with the aim of the overall Peace and Reconciliation programme, namely ‘to reinforce progress towards and peace and stable society and promote reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the Border Region of Ireland’.
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