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Description: Northern Ireland is becoming more cosmopolitan, with more ethnic minorities coming here...
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Title: The Impact of Political Conflict on Children in Northern Ireland.
Description: This report draws on the findings of the project Community Conflict Impact on Children. The study aimed to collect evidence on the effects of the Troubles on children and young people throughout Northern Ireland.
View Document: CCICReport.pdf
Title: An Acceptable Prejudice? Homophobic Violence and Harrassment in Northern Ireland
Description: The issue of homophobic harassment and violence has come to the fore over the past year with the police seeking assistance from within the gay community in relation to at least two murders in Belfast. But this issue is a much more widespread and varied subject than extreme violent assault.
View Document: ICR_Homoph.pdf
Title: Analysis of Incidents of Racial Harassment Recorded by the Police in Northern Ireland.
Description: This report reviews the scale and nature of racial harassment and violence in Northern Ireland as evidenced by a review and analysis of all the racist incidents recorded by the police between 1996 and 2001.
The framework for the research was on one hand the Stephen Lawrence Report published in 1999 and which made a series of recommendations in relation to reporting, recording and responding to racist violence. And on the other hand it was a response to the growing recognition of scale of the problem of racial harassment in Northern Ireland at a time when minority ethnic communities and organisations were growing in size and visibility.
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Title: Human Rights and Community Relations: Competing or Complimentary Approaches in Response to Conflict?
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Title: Policing, Accountability and Young People
Description: This report draws on the findings of a survey of 1163 young people and discussions within 31 focus groups to explore their attitudes to and experiences of the various structures of policing in Northern Ireland: the Police Service of Northern Ireland, the Police Ombudsman and the Policing Board. This is the most extensive survey of its kind and the first to explore the attitudes of young people towards the reformed policing structures.
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Title: Young People and Politics
Description: This short paper describes the initial work of the North Belfast Community Research Project, a partnership between LINC Resource Centre, the Institute of Conflict Research and individuals from the Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist communities of North Belfast.
The aim of this partnership is to train community activists in research methods and to initiate a community based research programme in North Belfast. The paper discusses the background to the project, outlines the training programme and provides a review of the initial research project on the voting habits of young people.
View Document: NBCRG.pdf
Title: Interface Violence in East Belfast during 2002
Description: Throughout 2002 there was persistent and recurrent violence in the interface areas of East Belfast around the Short Strand.
This report draws upon a number of interviews with residents, community workers, elected representatives and statutory and voluntary organisations who provide their experiences and perspectives of the violence and disorder that affected both communities.
View Document: Interface Violence.pdf
Title: Creggan Community Restorative Justice: An Evaluation and Suggested Way Forward
Description: This evaluation of the CRJ Creggan Project commenced in Feb 2001 and was initiated by St. Columb's Park House (SCPH).
A number of young males took part in a focus group discussion. CRJ volunteers also agreed to participate in a discussion but requested that the discussion not be taped. Individual interviews were conducted with other local community based leaders including a school headmaster, a priest and various politicians. SCPH also assisted by conducting individual interviews with victims who had sought CRJ's help.
View Document: CRJReport.pdf
Title: Caring Through the Troubles
Description: This study investigated the impact of the Troubles and the potential ‘additional’ costs associated with the delivery of health and social care in North and West Belfast. A variety of research methods were implemented. Initially, two sets of data collected by the Cost of the Troubles Study (1999) were re-analysed. The first was a data set of deaths related to the Troubles and the second was data generated by a survey, which aimed to ascertain the overall impact of political violence on the Northern Ireland population. Existing data was also collected from the Eastern Health and Social Services Board, North and West Trust and South and East Trust. Data was also obtained from the Northern Ireland Housing Executive. Focus group discussions and in-depth individual interviews were conducted with North and West Trust workers.
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Title: Young People's experience of Policing, Violence and Community Safety in North Belfast
Description: This research focuses on young people's attitudes and experiences of violence and community safety in North Belfast...
View Document: North Belfast Youth Survey.pdf
Title: Interface Issues - An Annotated Bibliography
Description: Much has been written about interface areas and issues by researchers, academics, community and statutory agencies and others. This body of work represents a considerable store of knowledge and experience, insight, theory and opinion in this area gathered over many years.
View Document: Interface Bibliography.pdf
Title: Sectarianism in Armagh City and District Council Area
Description: The Community Relations Council commissioned the Institute for Conflict Research (ICR) to conduct a short research project within the Armagh City and District Council area. This research report is not intended to be comprehensive in nature, but instead provides a general overview of past and current levels of sectarianism within the Council area.
The research aimed to:
- Document current and past levels of sectarianism:
- Examine how Armagh Council along with public/community organisations have responded to the issue of sectarianism:
- Indicate what further support may be required.
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Title: Young People in Community Conflict
Description: The project aimed to research the role of young people (12-17 years old) in local communities in the Northern Health and Social Services Board (NHSSB) area experiencing conflict and disorder, and how these actions affect the health and social wellbeing of the people living within these areas. The research was funded by the NHSSB Investing for Health.
The project aims were to:
1 Investigate the role played by young people in inter and intra community disorder and violence;
2 Explore the factors facilitating their participation in disorder and violence;
3 Determine the nature of their attitudes towards their own and neighbouring communities.
The research approach was collaborative involving meetings and verbal reports with a representative from Investing for Health Team. The methods adopted were both quantitative and qualitative. It was agreed that there would be two stages to the research project. Stage one would examine six areas within the NHSSB to provide an overall impression of the community life of young people. The six areas selected included Antrim, Ballymena, Carrickfergus, Coleraine, Larne and Newtownabbey. At the conclusion of this stage, three areas were selected by the Investing for Health Team based on the findings presented and a more detailed research analysis was conducted, these included Larne, Antrim and Coleraine. In addition a self-completion questionnaire was designed in conjunction with the Investing for Health Team for administration within the NHSSB area.
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Title: Sectarian and Racist Chill Factors in Armagh College
Description: Armagh College commissioned the Institute for Conflict Research (ICR) in partnership with Trademark to investigate the perception of sectarian and racist chill factors among the staff and employees within the college. The fieldwork for the study was carried out among staff between October and December 2005.
The college is located in Armagh City an area which although experiencing an increasing amount of mixed residential areas in the east still remains predominantly segregated. This segregated housing has according to the local population provided a comfort zone for people to live in an area with the same values (Shared Future Consultation, 2003). Research in Armagh has highlighted sectarian attitudes within the area especially in rural districts where there is a strong tradition that land should not be sold to 'the other side'; (Morrow, 1996). This research ascertained if these attitudes in the wider community have impacted upon the college.
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Title: Young People and Armed Violence in Northern Ireland
Description: The study presents contextual comparisons of organised armed groups, and the involvement of children and youth within them, in ten countries across four continents. The history, structure and functioning of the groups themselves are discussed, as are the motivations, desires and day-to-day realities of their child and youth members, as well as the common threads in public policy used to deal with the problem. In so doing, the study is a starting point for the much needed discussion of a situation that is too often addressed by state force and repression.
View Document: Viva Rio.pdf
Title: Community Cohesion: Applying Learning from Groundwork in Northern Ireland
Description: Commissioned by Groundwork UK.
View Document: GUKReport-CommunityCohesion.doc
Title: New Migrant Communities in East Tyrone
Description: The towns of Dungannon and Cookstown and the surrounding areas including Coalisland have seen an influx of migrant workers in the last five years. Initially the workers were from Portugal or were Portuguese speakers, but now include migrant workers from Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, the Ukraine, Romania and East Timor. In light of these changing demographics East Tyrone College commissioned ICR to conduct research to assess the impact on the College of the growing ethnic minority population in the area.
Report available on College website
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Title: No Longer a Problem: Sectarian Violence in Northern Ireland.
Description: No Longer a Problem: Sectarian Violence in Northern Ireland. Neil Jarman, (2005) Commissioned by Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister.
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Title: Out of Sight: Young People and Paramilitary Exiling in Northern Ireland
Description: This report focused on the needs and rights of young people who have been directly or indirectly affected by paramilitary exiling within Northern Ireland. The research aimed to identify current service provision for exiles, and to consider when developing future policies, services and community action plans, that the needs of siblings and children are incorporated into any response.
Commissioned by Save the Children and NIACRO. Not available to the public at present.
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Title: Sectarianism in the Antrim Borough Council Area
Description: The Community Relations Council commissioned the Institute for Conflict Research (ICR) to conduct a short research project within the Antrim Borough Council area. This research report is not intended to be comprehensive in nature, but instead provides a general overview of past and current levels of sectarianism within the Council area.
The research aimed to:
· Document current and past levels of sectarianism;
· Examine how Antrim Council along with public/community organisations have responded to the issue of sectarianism;
· Indicate what further support may be required.
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Title: Troubled Youth?
Description: This report focuses on young people's experiences of various forms of violence and anti-social behaviour. Based on fieldwork in a number of communities in Belfast and Derry Londonderry, the report looks at the relationships between communities on either side of the sectarian divide and the role of young people in defining these as antagonistic, hostile and suspicious. The report also considers forms of intra-communal violence, the different experiences of young men and young women and the relationship of young people to the diverse structures of social authority such as the police, paramilitaries and community workers. The role of young people in street violence, rioting and anti-social behaviour is more easily observed than understood or analysed. This study aims to increase the understanding of the behaviour of young people and their attitudes to the use of violence within their daily lives.
This research was funded by the Community Relations Council through the European Special Support Programme for Peace and Reconciliation.
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Title: Youth participation in the democratic process
Description: New youth research published by the Electoral Commission looking at young people's attitudes towards the democratic process in Northern Ireland has revealed that 41% of 16-24 year olds feel that politicians do not listen to their views. However, 67% said they would vote for a politician who listened and responded to their concerns.
Drawing on research by the Institute for Conflict Research (ICR) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the report found that half of 16-24 year olds expressed an interest in politics but many are disengaged from mainstream politics.
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Title: Policing, Accountability and the Black and Minority Ethnic Communities in Northern Ireland
Description: The report explores the attitudes of the black and minority ethnic population toward policing structures in Northern Ireland and their awareness of the roles of the Northern Ireland Policing Board and the Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland, who commissioned the research.
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Title: Policing, Accountability and the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Community in Northern Ireland
Description: The report explores the attitudes of the lesbian, gay and bisexual population to policing structures in Northern Ireland and their awareness of the roles of the Northern Ireland Policing Board and the Office of the Police Ombudsman, who commissioned the research.
View Document: LGB book complete.pdf
Title: Anti-social Behaviour & Crime
Description: Opinions of young people in the Greater Shantallow Area
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Title: How Public Authorities Provide Services to Minority Ethnic Groups
Description: How public authorities provide services to minority ethnic groups - emerging findings discussion paper.
This publication outlines emerging findings from research commissioned by the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM) in Northern Ireland. The research focuses on public authorities' service provision to minority ethnic (including migrant) groups in three jurisdictions: Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Scotland.
The primary focus of the research is to identify how public authorities in the three jurisdictions can learn from the experiences of their nearest neighbours. This includes a brief three-way comparaive analysis, highlighting interesting initiatives and key challenges from each of the jurisdictions. This report outlines emerging findings to date, a more substantial and conclusive final report will be published in August/September 2006.
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Title: Working at the Interface: Good practice in reducing tension and violence.
Description: Violence and disorder have been recurrent problems in many interface areas of Belfast for many years, but these problems have also led to the development of a range of responses by people living and working near interfaces. This brief document highlights some of the current best practice and key learnings of interface workers about how they can respond to violence and reduce further disorder. The report provides a brief overview of the scale and variety of activities developed in response to interface violence in recent years, confirming the value and importance of such work in reducing tensions, preventing conflict and improving inter-communal relations.
View Document: Working at the Interface.pdf
Title: Changing Patterns and Future Planning: Migration and Northern Ireland
Description: In June 2004 ICR published a report entitled Migrant Workers in Northern Ireland, the result of a research study commissioned for the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister. Since that time there has been greater awareness about the growing numbers of migrant workers coming to Northern Ireland, of the changing dynamics of patterns of migration, of the local demand that is attracting migrants and of the need to improve information, advice, support and services for people moving to Northern Ireland to take up employment.
Migration patterns to Northern Ireland have changed considerably over recent years and this is leading to significant changes both to the size and the ethnic/national background of the overall minority population. The currently available evidence suggests that the patterns of migration are distinctive in relation to the UK as a whole, with larger numbers of Eastern European migrants moving to Northern Ireland and larger than expected numbers of migrants in the manufacturing, food processing and construction sectors.
The current focus of attention has been on issues of discrimination, service provision, information and advice for migrants. There has been little overall policy development to address the prominence of migration as a factor in the current and future economic development of Northern Ireland, while most current responses and initiatives appear to be being developed in isolation and with no sense of a coherent or joined-up approach. This is an issue that will need to be addressed if migration is to continue to be an opportunity for Northern Ireland rather than a problem.
View Document: Changing Patterns and Future Planning.pdf
Title: Punishing Disorder: Sentencing of Public Order Offences in Northern Ireland
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Title: Parades and Protests
Description: This publication reviews all the major policy documents, community publications, academic papers and books that focus on the contemporary culture of parading and the current cycle of protests related to parades in Northern Ireland. It provides an outline of discussion and analysis contained in nearly ninety documents that have been published since 1982. This annotated bibliography will be a valuable resource for community groups and organisations working on the subject of parades and associated issues as well as for policy makers, researches and academics.
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Title: Shared Living: Mixed residential communities in Northern Ireland
Description: This report is the result of a qualitative study into three mixed residential communities in Northern Ireland. The research findings provide an analysis of the quality of life issues and the nature of social relationships in mixed communities. Through a number of interviews and focus groups residents from both urban and rural mixed communities discussed the social dynamics that exist, and the agents of integration that facilitated a sense of sharing within their communities. The findings reveal indicators of shared living and factors that can hinder the development of relationship building between people from different community backgrounds. Furthermore, the research offered an opportunity to explore the value and relevance of the theoretical concepts of bonding, bridging and linking social capital in creating sustainable, integrated shared communities.
In two of the study areas (Areema and the Lissize estate in Rathfriland) a short household survey / community audit was conducted as part of the fieldwork. The full analysis of each survey was written up and presented to the community groups in Areema and Lissize, while the two full reports and the questionnaires can be found in the reports section of the ICR website.
The research was funded by the Community Relations Council through the European Special Support Programme for Peace and Reconciliation.
View Document: Shared Living.pdf
Title: Areema Community Audit
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Title: Improving Government Service Delivery to Minority Ethnic Groups
Description: This publication outlines findings from research commissioned by the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister in Northern Ireland. The research focuses on public authorities' service provision to minority ethnic (including migrant and Traveller) groups in three jurisdictions: Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Scotland. The primary focus of the research is to identify how public authorities in the three jurisdictions can learn from the experiences of their nearest neighbours. This includes highlighting case examples from each of the jurisdictions.
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Title: Equality Mainstreaming - Policy and Practice for Transgender People
Description: Policy and practice for Transgender People
View Document: OFM - Transgender Equality.pdf
Title: Equality Mainstreaming - Policy and Practice for LGB people
Description: Policy and Practice for LGB people
View Document: OFM - Equality Mainstreaming - LGB.pdf
Title: Intercultural Football Plan: Many Voices One Goal
Description: Neil Jarman and Robin Wilson were commissioned by the Football Intercultural Advisory Group on behalf of the Football Association of Ireland to develop a strategic plan for the FAI to promote interculturalism and integration through football.
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Title: Guidelines on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly
Description: The right to assemble peacefully is an essential condition for the exercise of other human rights such as the freedom of expression. As a true foundation of democracy, the right to assemble is guaranteed by major human rights treaties and by a commitment made by OSCE participating States in 1990, in Copenhagen. These Guidelines on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly are a new cornerstone of this assistance, adding to the ODIHR's Legislationline.org database, where lawmakers can obtain examples from other countries' legislation that can help them prepare legislation regulating the exercise of the freedom of assembly.
Neil Jarman chairs the international panel on freedom of assembly at the Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, part of the Organisation of Security and Co-operation in Europe. They recently produced a set of guidelines on freedom of assembly legislation, available in English and Russian.
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Title: Enabling Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Individuals to Access Their Rights Under Equality Law
Description: This report summarises the key findings of a research project commissioned by the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland (ECNI) and the Equality Authority (EA). The project's primary aim is to identify strategies whereby specialised equality bodies can enable lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people to secure their rights under equality law. The report combines findings from a small-scale qualitative study with a literature review and an appraisal of current legislation, policy and practice.
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Title: Adequacy and Effectiveness of Educational Provision for Traveller Children and Young People in NI
Description: The aim of this research was to assess the adequacy and effectiveness of educational provision for Traveller children and young people in Northern Ireland. The approach was primarily qualitative and provided an overview of the experiences of education for Traveller children through discussions and interviews with children, parents and key figures within the statutory and voluntary sectors. The research was conducted jointly by ICR, Trademark and An Munia Tober.
View Document: EC - Travellers report complete pdf.pdf
Title: Research into the Views and Experience of People Involved in Neighbourhood Watch Schemes in N I
Description: This report outlines the findings of research on the effectiveness of Neighbourhood Watch schemes in reducing crime, fear of crime and improving relationships between local communities and the police. It found that such schemes give people a greater sense of community and a perceived lower level of crime. The research was based on 143 schemes and covered approximately 17,000 households across most council areas.
The research was commissioned by the Policing Board, in partnership with the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) Community Safety Unit and the Police Service of Northern Ireland, and was carried out by Social & Market Research in partnership with the Social Research Centre and ICR.
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