The Good Friday Agreement and many years of peacebuilding work have mitigated conflict in Northern Ireland and provided a path to a shared future. But Brexit border arrangements and mounting discontent are jeopardizing the region's hard-won victories.   

This event delves into strengthening positive peace in Northern Ireland and creating an optimal environment for human potential to flourish. It also builds the case for developing a Northern Ireland Peace Index, a report that will provide an empirical assessment and overview of key trends, patterns, and drivers of peace and positive peacefulness in Northern Ireland and provide a valuable monitoring tool to assess changes in peacefulness across different cities and counties over time.

This event will be hosted by Professor Richard English and includes a conversation with Claire Hazelden and Serge Stroobants.

Refreshments will be served from 5.00pm.  The event will start at 5.15pm.

Professor Richard English  

Director 

The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice 

The Mitchell Institute was established in 2016 to respond to the unprecedented global challenge of building a peaceful, inclusive and secure world.  The Institute brings together researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, peace-builders and students from diverse backgrounds and international locations who share their multiple perspectives.  It is a flagship for interdisciplinary research and collaboration with internationally renowned partners and researchers on 4 priority themes:

• Legacy 
• The Politics of Security and Peacebuilding 
• Rights and Social Justice
• Religion, Arts and Peacebuilding 

Claire Hazelden 

Research Analyst 

Northern Ireland Executive Programme for Tackling Paramilitarism, Criminality & Organised Crime

The cross-Executive Tackling Paramilitarism, Criminality and Organised Crime programme is active across all of Northern Ireland to support people and communities who are vulnerable to paramilitary influence and harm, with commitments being delivered collaboratively by government departments, statutory agencies and partners in the voluntary and community sector.  

Serge Stroobants 

Director of Europe and the MENA region 

Institute for Economics and Peace

The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) is an independent, non-profit think tank dedicated to shifting the world’s focus to peace as a positive and tangible measure of human well-being and progress.

The IEP is best known for the Global Peace Index, the world’s leading measure of international peacefulness used by academics, intergovernmental organisations and many governments around the world.