Community Relations Resources

Questions on Community Relations were asked in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012.
Further questions on identity were asked in the Identity module in 2007.
Questions were also asked of 12-17 year olds in the Young Life and Times Survey in 1998, 1999 and 2000, and of 16 year olds in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.
Questions on Shared Education were asked of 10/11 year olds in the Kids' Life and Times survey in 2012.

ARK Resources

• Into the mix (Research Update 83) by Paula Devine, explores cross-community contact using data from the 2012 Young Life and Times Survey.
• Shared Education: Views of Children and Young People (Research Update 82) by Katrina Lloyd is based on data from the 2012 Young Life and Times Survey and the 2012 Kids' Life and Times Survey.
• Community Relations, Equality and Diversity in Education (ARK Occasional Paper), by Paula Devine, uses data from the 2012 Young LIfe and Times Survey.
• No more 'us and them' for 16 year olds? (Research Update 79) by Paula Devine and Gillian Robinson, explores the attitudes of 16 years using data from the 2011 Young Life and Times Survey.
• An Age of Change?: community relations in Northern Ireland (Research Update 72) by Paula Devine, Gráinne Kelly and Gillian Robinson, uses attitudinal data from 1989 to 2009.
• Beyond gross divisions: national and religious identity combinations (Research Update 58) by Orla Muldoon, Niamh McNamara, Paula Devine and Karen Trew, uses data from the Identity module in the 2007 Life and Times Survey.
• Cross-Community Schemes: Participation, motivation, mandate. Final Project Report, by Dirk Schubotz and Claire McCartan with Aaron McDaid, Bróna McIntyre, Felicity McKee, Maria McManus, Sinead O’Kelly, Ashleigh Roberts and Laura Whinnery
• Cross-Community Schemes: Participation, motivation, mandate (Research Update 55) by Dirk Schubotz and Claire McCartan with Aaron McDaid, Bróna McIntyre, Felicity McKee, Maria McManus, Sinead O’Kelly, Ashleigh Roberts and Laura Whinnery
• Intimate Mixing – Bridging the Gap? Catholic-Protestant Relationships in Northern Ireland (Research Update 54) by Katrina Lloyd and Gillian Robinson, uses data from the 1998-2005 Life and Times Surveys.
• Cross community integration and mixing: does it make a difference? (Research Update 43) by Dirk Schubotz and Gillian Robinson, uses data from the Young Life and Times Survey.
• In Search of the Middle Ground: Integrated Education and Northern Ireland Politics (Research Update 42) by Bernadette C Hayes, Ian McAllister and Lizanne Dowds, uses data from the 1998-2003 Life and Times Survey, as well as 1998 and 2003 Election Surveys.
• What Now? (Research Update 34) by Dirk Schubotz and Paula Devine, is based on data from the 2004 Young Life and Times survey
• Us and Them? (Research Update 28) by Paula Devine and Dirk Schubotz, is based on data from the 2003 Young Life and Times survey
• Community Relations in Northern Ireland: The Long View, by Joanne Hughes, Caitlin Donnelly, Gillian Robinson and Lizanne Dowds, Occasional Paper 2, March 2003
• Ten Years of Social Attitudes to Community Relations in Northern Ireland, by Joanne Hughes and Caitlin Donnelly, Occasional Paper 1, August 2001
• Social Activity and Interaction in Northern Ireland (Research Update 10) by Brendan Murtagh
  
• Integrate or Segregate? Ten Years of Social Attitudes to Community Relations in Northern Ireland (Research Update 9) by Joanne Hughes and Caitlin Donnelly
  
• Learn about the history of Community Relations work in Northern Ireland in the CAIN web site's section on Community Relations Work in Northern Ireland.
• Read recommendations for the future in Improving Community Relations by Hugh Frazer and Mari Fitzduff.
• Cross-Community Marriage in Northern Ireland, by Gillian Robinson, reports on a study involving 79 interviews undertaken in 1992.
• CAIN provides information on the Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey, including the full text of book chapters which used results from the Community Relations module. The most recent of these is Community Relations in Northern Ireland: Attitudes to Contact and Integration by Joanne Hughes and Paul Carmichael.
• An Introduction to Symbols used in Northern Ireland can be found on CAIN.
• The Online Research Bank (ORB) Social Policy database contains a bibliography of key research documents focused on social policy in Northern Ireland. Users can search the database using the subject 'community relations'.
• The Qualitative Archive on the Conflict has collated information about qualitative material covering the 35 year span of 'the Troubles' in NI into a single catalogue.

Links

• The Together: Building a United Community Strategy, published on May 23 2013, reflects the Northern Ireland Executive’s commitment to improving community relations and continuing the journey towards a more united and shared society.
• Consultation on the Programme for Cohesion, Sharing and Intergration took place in 2010. The Programme sets out a vision for a new era in which we work together to build a shared and better future, a future where fairness, equality, rights, responsibilities and respect are acknowledged and accepted by all.
• The Shared Future site provides background documents and conference reports relating to the 2005 Policy and Strategic Framework for Good Relations in Northern Ireland.
• The Community Relations Unit is part of the Good Relations and Reconciliation Division within the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM). The Unit's aims are to increase cross-community contact and co-operation and to encourage mutual respect, understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity.
• Data from the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey form part of the Good Relations Indicators published by the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister.
• The Community Relations Council was set up to promote better community relations between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland and, equally, to promote recognition of cultural diversity. Visit their web site for details of their services and information.
  
• The World Bank Social Capital Website contains a vast array of information and resources relating to social capital.
  
• The Bowling Alone website provides information on the work of Robert D. Putnam. The datasets used in Putnam's analysis can be downloaded.
  
• The Office for National Statistics provides an introduction to social capital, and is co-ordinating a project to develop a framework for the measurement and analysis of social capital across Government.


• Community Dialogue is committed to a cross-community solution to Northern Ireland's political, social and economic problems.
• Research on community relations funded by the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister are available online, including Voices Behind the Statistics. - a qualitative project complementing the Young Life and Times Survey.
• Transforming Conflict: Flags and Emblems, by Dominic Bryan and Gordon Gillespie, looks at the issues surrounding the use of flags and emblems in Northern Ireland. (Note: this is a very large file: 25.8 MB)
• The 2012 Attitudes to Peacewalls project explored public awareness of and attitudes towards peace walls, to feed into public debate and policy making.

The following report uses data from the Life and Times Community Relations module:

• Too Easy to Ignore: Older People and Community Relations in Northern Ireland, by Lynda Spence.

Maintained by Paula Devine;