The 25 Years on From the Good Friday Agreement: Gendered and Grassroots Approaches to Peacebuilding conference marks the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday/ Belfast Agreement in Northern Ireland. It centers the often overlooked efforts that operate at the intersections of gender, class, transitional justice and peace-building. For the first time, 20 working-class women from cross-community grassroots organizations in Northern Ireland, will travel to Boston to be in dialogue with students, scholars, practitioners, members of civic society, and the extended Irish and Northern Irish community. The conference focus is to encourage the development of new and mutually beneficial relationships that will extend beyond the conference.

The conference program cuts across a range of approaches, including round table “Conversations,” informal workshops, slam poetry, film, and first-hand accounts from conflict survivors. We invite students, scholars, practitioners, members of civil society as well as those curious about “post-conflict” NI to join us for this unprecedented event. Register here.

Topics of the conversation include:

• Gender, Civic Society and Peacebuilding: Dispatches from the Ground
• Gender and Restorative Justice: Empowering the Grassroots
• Trauma and Healing: Grassroots Solutions
• Framing Narratives: Sectarianism, Racism & Displacement
• Social Justice and Policing: Who is Serving Whom?
• Educational Achievement in Contested Spaces: Who Suffers Most?

The organizers would like to extend sincere thanks to their sponsors, including CISS.  A full list of the generous sponsors is available here.