I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, ‘Debating the Past in the Northern Ireland Assembly?’
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Thursday 29 September in Belfast – Looking for an Evening Out? Spoiled for Choice
There are four events scheduled for Thursday 29 September in Belfast that are of great interest to me, and therefore also potentially of interest to readers of this blog. The biggest problem is how to choose where to go! Concerned citizens of Belfast and beyond can choose from the following: A Screening of ‘Unheard Voices’ [...]
The End of Irish Catholicism?: Talk at Queen’s Religious Studies Research Forum 20 October
Last week I presented a paper at the European Sociological Association conference in Geneva, titled: ‘The End of Irish Catholicism?: Exploring Extra-Institutional Spaces for Faith.’ I’ll be speaking again on the same topic on Thursday 20 October at 5.15 pm at the Peter Froggart Centre at Queen’s University Belfast. My talk is one in a [...]
Platform for Change Event on Dealing with the Past – 5 September in Belfast
Platform for Change has organised an event on Dealing with the Past for Monday 5 September at 7.30 pm in the Black Box, Belfast. I have written a post about it on the Slugger O’Toole blog. The chair of Platform for Change is Dr Robin Wilson, who is also a research associate with my School. [...]
Do Words Matter? New Post on Slugger O’Toole
I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog: Do Words Matter?: Book Review of Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution – Debating Peace in Northern Ireland. The book is edited by Katy Hayward and Catherine O’Donnell and I contributed a chapter, co-authored with Amber Rankin, on the DUP.
Fr Gerry Reynolds on the Eucharistic Congress – A Kairos for All? Ecumenical Event at Clonard Monastery on 14 September
In previous posts I’ve mentioned the International Eucharistic Congress, scheduled for Dublin in June 2012. It seems to me that the Congress is an opportunity for the Irish Catholic Church, embroiled as it is in the fall-out from the child sexual abuse scandals, to reach out both to disaffected (former) Catholics and Christians of other [...]
Michael Bennett on the Major Christian Task of Reconciliation
I’m always heartened when I see graduates of our Master’s in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation applying our course material in their work once they graduate. Yesterday’s guest post by Joram Tarusarira was one example of that. Today Fr Michael Bennett provides another example in the form of an article titled simply, ‘Reconciliation,’ published in the [...]
Reconciliation – The Missing Ingredient in Peace and Conflict Resolution Studies? Guest Post by Joram Tarusarira
Last month I participated in a summer school at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany, titled ‘Societies in Transition: Sub-Saharan Africa between Conflict and Reconciliation.’ One of the many pleasures of attending the summer school was catching up with former students, including Joram Tarusarira from Zimbabwe, who completed his master’s in Reconciliation Studies with us [...]
Comparative Perspectives on Societies in Transition – Sub-Saharan Africa between Conflict and Reconciliation: Lessons for Northern Ireland?
I spent ten days last month at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany, at a summer school titled ‘Societies in Transition: Sub-Saharan Africa between Conflict and Reconciliation.’ Between students and the plenary speakers there were about 30 people there, from, I think, 18 different countries. My presentation was on ‘Zimbabwe: Exploring Reconstruction and Reconciliation.’ Other [...]
Learning from 1798: Northern Ireland’s Upcoming Decade of Commemorations – New Post on Slugger O’Toole
I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, ‘Learning from 1798: Northern Ireland’s Upcoming Decade of Commemorations.’ It is commentary based on a review of Tom Dunne’s controversial book, Rebellions: Memoir, Memory and 1798.
About me
Welcome to Building a Church Without Walls, a website for people who are excited about how Christianity is developing in the 21st Century. I am a Lecturer and Coordinator of the Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation Studies Programme at Trinity College Dublin at Belfast (the Irish School of Ecumenics).
Please note this is my personal site. All views are my own and are not representative of TCD.
