12 February 1998 Edition
Eigse asks: What Price Peace?
Féile an Phobail's Winter School, Eigse an Phobail, this year asks, what price peace? Which demands are non-negotiatable? What concessions does each side - and more importantly, the public - believe are necessary or possible?
The main debate, entitled `Consenting to a Settlement - Where to Draw the Line?', takes place on Sunday 22 February at 2.00pm in Springvale Training Centre on Belfast's Springfield Road. The panel will include a Minister from the Dublin government, Mitchel McLaughlin from the Sinn Féin talks team, Brid Rodgers from the SDLP talks team and Sunday Business Post journalist Frank Connolly.
Eigse has also invited a spokesperson from the Ulster Unionist Party but it is not known if the invitaion will be accepted. It has been a proud record of Eigse that they have gone to great lengths over the years to invite spokespeople from Unionist positions. They have been hampered by the unwillingness of the Unionist leaderships to engage in this type of public debate.
On Saturday 21 February the panel debating `How Should We Remember the Victims of Conflict?' includes Frank La Rue, a Guatemalan human rights lawyer, Monsignor Raymond Murray, long-time campaigner on human rights, Chair of Relatives for Justice and a member of the Campaign for the Right to Truth, lecturer Bill Rolston, author of a recent pamphlet which looked at truth processes in other parts of the world and drew lessons for the Irish situation, and Jane Leonard, author of a Community Relations Council pamphlet, `Memorials to the Casualties of Conflict - Northern Ireland 1969-1997'.
Saturday's debate is also in the Springvale Training Centre at 2.00pm. Lunch is available on both days at the same venue at 12.30pm.
For further information, phone Feile an Phobail on Belfast 313440.
The main debate, entitled `Consenting to a Settlement - Where to Draw the Line?', takes place on Sunday 22 February at 2.00pm in Springvale Training Centre on Belfast's Springfield Road. The panel will include a Minister from the Dublin government, Mitchel McLaughlin from the Sinn Féin talks team, Brid Rodgers from the SDLP talks team and Sunday Business Post journalist Frank Connolly.
Eigse has also invited a spokesperson from the Ulster Unionist Party but it is not known if the invitaion will be accepted. It has been a proud record of Eigse that they have gone to great lengths over the years to invite spokespeople from Unionist positions. They have been hampered by the unwillingness of the Unionist leaderships to engage in this type of public debate.
On Saturday 21 February the panel debating `How Should We Remember the Victims of Conflict?' includes Frank La Rue, a Guatemalan human rights lawyer, Monsignor Raymond Murray, long-time campaigner on human rights, Chair of Relatives for Justice and a member of the Campaign for the Right to Truth, lecturer Bill Rolston, author of a recent pamphlet which looked at truth processes in other parts of the world and drew lessons for the Irish situation, and Jane Leonard, author of a Community Relations Council pamphlet, `Memorials to the Casualties of Conflict - Northern Ireland 1969-1997'.
Saturday's debate is also in the Springvale Training Centre at 2.00pm. Lunch is available on both days at the same venue at 12.30pm.
For further information, phone Feile an Phobail on Belfast 313440.