Itinerary

Saturday June 11 (Note: Sunday departure is an option being considered as well)

Departure from Cleveland, details TBA

Sunday June 12 - Belfast

Airport pick-up, transportation to Queens University Residence Halls

Checking/Settling In

On-site orientation, walking tour of neighborhood; rest

Lunch on your own; welcome dinner (group)

Monday June 13 Belfast

Morning: Belfast Bus Tour (to get a general sense of the city, its geography and history).

Afternoon: Visit and guided tour of Stormont, the center of political power

Tuesday June 14 Belfast (Republican perspectives)

Political Walking Tour of

Republican West Belfast/Falls Rd

to Milltown Cemetery

Insight into the history and geography of the conflict in Catholic Belfast

Wednesday June 15 Belfast

Police Service NI: how the post-peace Police Service has reinvented itself from its perception as an occupying security force to a police force.

Glen Jordan-East Belfast Mission

Founded in 1985, and rooted in the Irish Methodist tradition, East Belfast Mission (EBM) is the oldest and one of the largest community organizations in Northern Ireland and engages in community development and service in Belfast.

Thursday June 16 Belfast

Brian Lennon, Community Dialogue

Community Dialogue brings divided groups in Northern Ireland and elsewhere together to dialogue about contentious political, social and economic problems.  “As an organization we take no party-political position on any issue.”  We are an organization committed to a dialogue process, developed over the years, to help transform understanding and build trust amongst people who often hold opposing political, social and religious views.

Sammy Douglas

A self-employed development consultant and has been working on a part-time basis for the International Fund for Ireland since 1995, he has been involved in a wide range of community and voluntary activity particularly in community development, conflict resolution and mediation, social and economic regeneration since the mid nineteen seventies.

Loyalist Roundtable

Queen’s University Irish Institute lectures: Dr. Dominic Bryan, Dr. Gordon Gillespie

Friday June 17 Armagh

Excursion to Armagh - Armagh City Tour

Visit one of the former hotspots of the conflict, the old city of Armagh

Saturday-Sunday 18-19

Open Weekend for Travel (group of individually)

Monday June 20 Derry

Excursion to Derry

(Bloody Sunday) Museum of Free Derry, Derry

http://www.museumoffreederry.org/

For the past six years, the Bloody Sunday Trust has been working towards the creation of a museum and archive focussing on one of the most important periods in the history of this city – the civil rights era of the 1960s and the Free Derry/early troubles era of the 1970s.

Bogside Artist Mural Walking Tour/Studio Visit

http://www.bogsideartists.com/

The Manifesto: http://www.bogsideartists.com/articlesandpressreleases/manifesto.pdf

Tuesday June 21 Belfast

Clonard Monastery

The site of peace negotiations leading to the Good Friday Peace Accords

See Peace Wall

Meet local media/journalists

Wednesday June 22

Meeting with Victims Groups

Omagh Victim Support Group

http://www.omaghbomb.co.uk/contact_us.html

Republican Support Group

Thursday June 23

Prison Tour of the H-Block

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_(HM_Prison)

Meet with former prisoners

Meet with US Consulate

Friday June 24

ECONI

http://www.contemporarychristianity.net/econiroot/index.htm

“From April 2005, the Centre for Contemporary Christianity in Ireland will be the new name and face of the organisation formerly known as ECONI (Evangelical Contribution on Northern Ireland).  For 18 years, ECONI has equipped Christians to address division and conflict and challenged churches to think biblically about peacebuilding.”

Meet with The Baroness?

Saturday June 25

Open day; shop and relax