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The Peace Cairn - Quotations on themes of justice and non-violence. Based on an actual cairn project in Ireland.
South Armagh Farmers and Residents Committee - Campaigning for the demilitarisation of South Armagh. Includes map of army bases, overview and information about each, and discussion of the socio-economic problems caused to the area.
Youth Action Northern Ireland: Young Men and Violence - Information on a project by to develop an understanding of the relationship between young males and violent behaviour within contested societies in Northern Ireland.
TIDES Training - Committed to building the community infrastructure necessary for a lasting peace. Information about the company, its founders, current projects and contact details.
Ulster Project International - Aims to promote parity of esteem between Roman Catholics and Protestants. Includes background and overview of the organisation, together with an abridged timeline of the troubles, participant testimonials and details of how to get involved.
Expac - Ex-Prisoners Assistance Committee - Aims to assist all former prisoners, regardless of affiliation. Details of services provided, an e-book about coping with the post-release period, and news.
Richness In Diversity - An international conference addressing the theme of diverse groups and cultures working together in areas that have experienced deep conflict.
CAIN (Conflict Archive on the Internet) - Provides a wide range of information, resources and source material on the troubles from 1968 to the present.
INCORE Conflict Data Service - A guide to Internet sources on the conflict, including email-lists.
F. A. C. T. - Families Against Crime by Terrorism present victim profiles, news releases, organisation history and information on how to get involved.
Victims Unit - Raising awareness of, and co-ordinating activity on, issues affecting victims of the troubles. Includes information on trauma and publications on victims' issues.
Co-operation Ireland - Charity working to further the peace process. Includes events and news, plus information about education and community programmes.
Democratic Dialogue - Independant think tank with details of current projects, plus reports and staff profiles.
The Ulster Project, Kingsport, Tennessee - Limavady, N. Ireland - Ulster Project, Kingsport, Tennessee and Limavady, N. Ireland. Aims to promote peace and understanding between the Protestant and Catholic communities.
Institute for Conflict Research - A non-profit research organization investigating war, armed conflict, and ethnic violence. Features a calendar of events, lists of publications, as well as information and contact details for the Institute.
ECONI - Christian group aiming to address community division in Northern Ireland and the long term task of peace-building.
Photographs of Northern Ireland and the Conflict - Scenes of the province, particularly depictions of the conflict, including parades, banners, riots and wall murals.
The Troubles - Information about the British security forces' involvement in the struggle in Northern Ireland since 1969.
Irish Network for Nonviolent Action Training and Education (INNATE) - Umbrella group to support groups and individuals exploring nonviolent approaches to conflict issues. Includes background, annual reports and articles.
Victims and Survivors Trust - Dedicated to helping people move from being a victim to becoming a survivor. Site contains information on the organisation and projects to help the victims of the Anglo/Irish conflict, mainly in West Belfast, and reflections on how violence has affected the community.
One Small Step Campaign - Includes news, FAQs and contact information for the peace-building campaign.
Community Dialogue - Northern Ireland Conflict, Politics and Society - Publications, reflections and insightful questions on many aspects of the inter-community conflicts, and details of local groups and events from an organisation which aims to encourage meaningful dialogue between unionists and nationalists.
Massillon/Canton Ulster Project Photo Site - Photo from the Northeast Ohio organization that promotes understanding and friendship amongst Northern Irish young people.
LINC Resource Centre - A ministry of Nazarene Compassionate Ministries. Includes news, contacts and details of current preace-building projects.
Northern Ireland Veterans Association - Provides membership information, aims, relevant links, discussion forum and contacts.
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. -- Jean Anouilh We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Religious and Sectarian Conflict Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle A problem is a chance for you to do your best. -- Buke Ellington Religious and Sectarian Conflict God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. -- Anonymous Religious and Sectarian Conflict Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Religious and Sectarian Conflict Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. -- Christopher Morley The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley Religious and Sectarian Conflict My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Religious and Sectarian Conflict The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. -- Lou Holtz The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Religious and Sectarian Conflict Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Religious and Sectarian Conflict Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. -- George Santayana I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. -- Thornton Wilder Religious and Sectarian Conflict When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire. -- Gen. George "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Religious and Sectarian Conflict The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -- Yiddish Proverb There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Religious and Sectarian Conflict "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. -- Zora Neale Hurston An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. -- Sacha Guitry Religious and Sectarian Conflict The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. -- Virginia Woolf Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Religious and Sectarian Conflict "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! -- Mark Russell Religious and Sectarian Conflict A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Religious and Sectarian Conflict Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson Religious and Sectarian Conflict No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed Bluestone Religious and Sectarian Conflict Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Religious and Sectarian Conflict "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. -- Navaho saying A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Religious and Sectarian Conflict When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here. -- Samuel Hoffenstein A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde Religious and Sectarian Conflict "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Religious and Sectarian Conflict Hell is paved with good samaritans. -- William M. Holden If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers Religious and Sectarian Conflict
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