As part of the Imagine! Festival, the Peace Summit Partners wish to invite you to a seminar at 10 AM on Thursday 27 March 2025 in the Duncairn Centre for Culture & Arts, Belfast. The seminar will reflect on the principles and practice of Ethical and Shared Remembering, assessing progress and identifying actions for the next phase.
The session will tie into significant upcoming anniversaries in the peace process, including the 30th anniversary of the Belfast/Good Friday and the peace process, alongside the 60th anniversary of ‘The Day the Troubles Began’.
Speakers will include peace and reconciliation organisations, policy makers and government departments:
- Deirdre MacBride, who worked with the NI Community Relations Council and was author of the Principle for Ethical Commemoration for the Decade of Centenaries.
- Maureen Hetherington has been involved in peacebuilding initiatives in Derry/Londonderry and led a project on Ethical and Shared Remembering: Commemoration in a New Context: Remembering a Decade of Change and Violence 1912–1922.
- Stella Byrne, National Heritage Lottery Fund
- Sara McDowell, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography and expert on the impact of the practices and processes of memory on peacebuilding initiatives in conflict zones.
- Cate Turner, Healing Through Remembering
- Patricia Harkin and Julie Welch, from Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council who recently agreed a new memorial policy.
Book your place now: https://imaginebelfast.com/event/the-importance-of-ethical-and-shared-remembering/