Joe O'Donnell recently sat on the panel at Corrymeela for the CREDIT course which is designed for teachers who are currently involved in community relations work in their schools.

View our interactive database of Belfast interfaces, including descriptions, photographs and Google StreetView of all security barriers and defensive uses of space throughout the city.

News

New Mediation Service Offered

Belfast Interface Project and TIDES are jointly offering a new mediation service as part of a new project funded by SEUPB through Belfast City Council Community Safety Unit, to end of December 2013.

The project will offer mediation training – both accredited and unaccredited – and also mediation case work.

To register your interest in any of these services, please contact Arthur Magill on magilla@belfastcity.gov.uk or 028 9032 0202.

New Publication Available: Sharing Education in Interface Areas

The Institute for Conflict Research (ICR) and Belfast Interface Project (BIP) have recently (2013) undertaken research into the potential for sharing education in schools in interface areas of North Belfast.

Funded by the Integrated Education Fund (IEF), this research is part of a broader regional discussion on the nature of shared education, what this currently constitutes for communities and what the opportunities are for its development.

For access to this latest publication, please click on the link below:

Reviewing Belfast Interfaces with Belfast Met staff and students

John Mc Quillan (Belfast Interface Project ) reviews ‘ Belfast Interfaces- Security Barriers and Defensive Use of Space’ a piece of research carried out by BIP and the Institute for Conflict Research to identify and classify the known security barriers and associated forms of defensive architecture in residential areas of Belfast, with Belfast Met’s staff and students in Titanic Quarter’s College on March 7^th, 2013.

Stories of Hope - Event

Belfast Interface Project, Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre and Tell It In Colour present a night of storytelling with young people enaging in the Leonardo Mobility Project.

Young people from across Belfast's interface communities have completed a programme of training in Belfast and an 8 week placement in Valencia, Spain with a focus on Hospitality and Tourism. 'Stories of Hope' is a night where the young people will share their experiences and celebrate their acheivements. Musicians More Than Conquerors will be performing and refreshments will be served.

Belfast Metropolitan College marks Community Relations Week with BIP

Belfast Interface Project recently participated in an event organised by Belfast Metropolitian College to mark Community Relations Week (20th - 26th May 2013).