Working Groups

Working Group 1: Use of EU Funding for Peace Building

Northern Ireland is leading the work of this group, through International Conflict Research Centre (INCORE) at the University of Ulster, Magee. This working group aims to evaluate, share and learn from the experience of managing EU PEACE funding in a complex political environment and explore the tensions and challenges between sound financial management and the goals of peace and reconciliation.

Working Group 2: Community-based Approaches to Peace Building & Reconciliation through Social Integration, Inclusion and Local Strategies

The Basque Country is the lead region for this group, together with Pobal in Ireland. This group is working on compiling a number of good practice examples. Its aim is to capture the diversity of communities, social groups and civil society organisations that have been supported by the PEACE Programmes and projects that have been delivered to address specific needs and problems. The social change these groups have attempted and indeed achieved as well as the relationships that have been built within and between communities and public sector organisations will also be investigated. This working group aims to present a range of these examples at a seminar to be held in the Basque Country in November 2009.

Working Group 3: PEACE funding for Children and Young People

Cyprus is the lead region for this group, together with the Early Years organisation in Northern Ireland. This working group is tasked with carrying out a scoping exercise on research evidence which currently exists on the impact of conflict and division on children and young people.