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 An integral part of its support to funded groups as well as contributing to the peace building knowledge and skills of its Partnership, the Co Louth Peace and Reconciliation Partnership developed a peace building learning and support programme. One of the key learning experiences of the work included a visit to Belfast to gain a more indepth appreciation and understanding of diversity and culture as experienced by urban communities throughout the city.
This visit was facilitated by Dr Dominic Bryan, Head of the Irish Studies Department at Queen’s University, who focused on a number of issues including shared and contested space and what that meant for many communities throughout the city; flags and emblems and their significance at particular times of the year. The session exposed participants to matters which they were not aware of as well as raising challenging issues.
The tour of the political murals throughout the city - both Nationalist/Republican and Unionist/Loyalist, and to many places which people had not visited before including Peace Walls in interface areas which both separate and segregate communities in Belfast.
This learning event proved to be thought provoking and stimulating for participants, some of whose families had been displaced from parts of the North during the Conflict as well as internationally displaced people who were at last able to appreciate the concept of 'internally displaced' communities in Ireland and the impact of the Northern Ireland conflict on communities in Co Louth.
Stephen Ojo of the Eagles Wings Youth Group in Drogheda who had never visited Belfast before commented ' ?????'
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