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Issue No: 1 - Jan/2019

Introduction

Welcome to the first ARK newsletter of 2019. In 2018, we celebrated 20 years of ARK public attitudes surveys. This important work continues, and we are looking forward to our events later in the year to highlight the findings of our most recent surveys. So watch this space!
 

CAIN Chronology of the Conflict

The CAIN Chronology of the Conflict provides a vital source of information on key dates in Northern Ireland's history since 1968. For each entry in the chronology, there are links to relevant documents, with more detailed information for those dates that coincide with important events and key issues. Where applicable, there are also links within the chronology entries to other resources on CAIN, such as the Sutton Database of Deaths, and online records from the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI).

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Northern Ireland Peace Monitoring Report

Northern Ireland Peace Monitoring Report
A team led by ARK (Ann Marie Gray, Jennifer Hamilton, Grainne Kelly, Brendan Lynn, Martin Melaugh, and Gillian Robinson) was awarded the contract to produce the fifth report for the Northern Ireland Peace Monitoring project. The project is run by the Community Relations Council and is financially supported by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.

The report brings together information from a range of published sources, including: CAIN, the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, government statistics, and other bodies.

In addition, the report team reviews the critical social, economic, peace building and reconciliation issues in Northern Ireland 2016-2018, including
  • The potential impact of Brexit and its effect on community relations;
  • Lack of progress in key social justice and social policy areas;
  • Reflections on important peace process structural issues such as PSNI representativeness after the ending of 50-50 recruitment;
  • Continued segregation and challenges in recent years to policy on shared housing and shared education;
  • Continuing impact of the lack of a Northern Ireland Executive and working Assembly.
The full report, and a summary report are available on the Community Relations Council website.

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Evidence to Women and Equalities Committee

ARK has submitted written evidence to the Women and Equalities Select Committee Inquiry on abortion law on Northern Ireland. The Women and Equalities Committee is a cross-party committee of MPs appointed to scrutinise the Government on equalities.

One of the aims of the Inquiry was to explore the views of the general public, women and medical and legal professionals in Northern Ireland about the law on abortion and whether it should be reformed. The ARK submission summarised findings of an ESRC-funded research into public attitudes to abortion in Northern Ireland, which included running a comprehensive set of questions in the 2016 Northern Ireland Life and Times survey.

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Goretti Horgan - recent awards

Goretti Horgan - recent awards
The ARK team is delighted that the Derry/Londonderry Soroptomist branch have awarded Goretti Horgan (Director, ARK Policy Unit) their Woman in the Community cup for 2017/18, in recognition of her education, anti-poverty and reproductive rights work.


We would also like to congratulate Goretti who was presented with the Iris Colvin Lifetime Achievement Award for services to education by the Women's Forum Northern Ireland.
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