When:
9th May 2018
Where:
Rural Community Network
38a Oldtown Street,
Cookstown,
Co Tyrone, N. Ireland
BT80 8EF
Tel: 028 8676 6670
email: teresa@ruralcommunitynetwork.org
This is a collaborative ESRC-funded research project between the Law Schools of Queen's and Ulster University and the Committee on the Administration of Justice.
The project will examine the consititutional, conflict transformation, human rights and equality consequences of Brexit.
NI (along with Scotland) voted to remain in the European Union (EU); it is the region of the United Kingdom (UK) most likely to be negatively affected by the decision to leave the EU. It is now evident tha the transformation of constitutional and legal relationships between NI, the Republic of fIreland and Britain flowing from the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement 1998 was premised on background assumptions about common membershipof the EU. The UK wide vote to leave the EU is thus profoundly unsettling for the peace process, and it has already proved constitutionally destabilising in and beyond NI.
This project will particularly focus on the Northern Ireland peace process, North-South relations, border controls and fre movement in and between NI, the Republic of Ireland and Britian, xenophobia and racism in NI, the impact on socio-economic rights and the wider human rights and equality issues.