Community Dialogue

Proud to celebrate our own Jim O’Neill and Lyn Moffett on receiving the Quiet Peacebuilders Award at the Guildhall on Monday 👏

A well-deserved recognition for their decades of dedication to reconciliation and peace building.

John and Pat Hume Foundation

The Dialogue Practitioners Cooperative and Community Dialogue are hosting an online Zoom conversation for peace and reconciliation practitioners across Northern Ireland.

📅 Tuesday 3rd March
⏰ 10:00am – 11:30am
📍 Zoom (link sent after registration)
👥 Limited to 20 participants (first come, first served)
📩 RSVP by Thursday 26th February to [email protected]

The session will explore current challenges facing the sector, including polarisation, far-right activity, anti-immigrant sentiment, shrinking community capacity for conflict resolution, funding pressures, practitioner burnout, and political instability. The aim is to provide space for reflection, peer support, and collective thinking.

This Morning, David (on behalf of CD and the Dialogue Practitioners co-operative/DPC & ReMiT) and Risa (on behalf of DPC & ReMiT) facilitated roundtable discussions at the YANI Interculturalism Seminar in Belfast. Around 70 young people from across the UK and Ireland came together to explore interculturalism and engage in honest conversations about exclusion, intolerance, migrant tensions, and anti-immigrant protests. Encouraging to see such thoughtful leadership and dialogue among young people committed to building more inclusive communities.

YouthAction Northern Ireland Migrant Centre NI Forward South Partnership

Have a merry Christmas from us all at Community Dialogue 🎄

From our Armagh dialogues: women voiced a painful reality living in fear despite being law-abiding, with police unable to respond to the threats they face

From our Belfast dialogues: ethnic minority voices shared painful accounts of daily racist abuse when collecting children from school and even at work.

From our Antrim dialogues: Loyalists called for honest engagement on the border poll debate seeking reassurance that their community would be safeguarded in a New Ireland.

From our Armagh dialogues: women spoke of fear and frustration as health care workers faced violence during recent riots a stark reminder of their vital role in our communities.