Ex-prisoners and combatants: Agents for change?

Ex-prisoners and combatants: Agents for change?

May 6, 2014
  Recent events in the Northern Ireland peace process centered on the growing need to “deal with the past” have underscored the passive and active roles that ex political prisoners and combatants can have in post conflict peacebuilding.   This conference, organised in Belfast, was a partnership between the ICTU... Read More...
Betty Sinclair Winter School 2013

Betty Sinclair Winter School 2013

Nov 6, 2013
The conference represented the culmination of the Trade Unions in Post Conflict Societies programme, funded by the SEUPB. The project seeks to explore, analyse and share learning from regions dealing with conflict with a focus on the role of trade unions in the development of shared and just societies. The conference... Read More...
Cooperate And No One Gets Hurt

Cooperate And No One Gets Hurt

Jun 7, 2012
Co-operatives serve their members most effectively and strengthen the co-operative movement by working together through local, national, regional and international structures. Trademark hosted a residential in Belfast on the weekend of the 15th – 17th June 2012. The purpose of the residential was to create a practical network to promote co-operation... Read More...
Cooperatives: A Model for Sustainable Development

Cooperatives: A Model for Sustainable Development

Jun 7, 2012
The United Nations have designated 2012 as the International Year of Co-operatives and a major conference on Cooperatives will be held on the 28th June 2012 at the Europa Hotel in Belfast. Co-operatives are an alternative way of doing business and whether the members are workers, customers or residents they... Read More...
Sectarianism in the workplace

Sectarianism in the workplace

May 24, 2012
This new research produced by Trademark explored the continued impact of sectarianism in the workplace Speakers included: Dr Stephen Nolan (Trademark) Charlotte Elliot (ASDA) Michaela Lafferty (USDAW) Dr Duncan Morrow (University of Ulster) Monday 14thMay 2012 12:00 – 1:00pm Read More...
The business of health - Marketisation and the NHS

The business of health – Marketisation and the NHS

May 24, 2012
The ‘Trade Unions in post conflict societyʼ project, funded by the ERDF,  seeks through a series of seminars to promote a genuine debate within our political, policy and public discourse about public services in a post conflict society. The ICTU and Trademark in partnership with  The Northern Ireland Trades Councils organised... Read More...
Trade unions in post conflict societies

Trade unions in post conflict societies

May 24, 2012
This project seeks through education, research and dialogue to explore, analyse and share experiences from a range of conflict areas such as Iraq, Palestine and South Africa. The project will address the  role and contribution of trade unions  in that process with a focus on the full spectrum of conflict-related... Read More...
Turning the tide in the water wars

Turning the tide in the water wars

Oct 24, 2011
The ʻTrade Unions in post conflict societyʼ project funded by the ERDF seeks through a series of seminars to promote a genuine debate within our political, policy and public/media discourse about the ʻeconomyʼ and ʻeconomicsʼ in a post conflict society. At this time of global economic crisis and the literal... Read More...
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Trade unions in post conflict societies

May 24, 2012
This project seeks through education, research and dialogue to explore, analyse and share experiences from a range of conflict areas such as Iraq, Palestine and South Africa. The project will address the  role and contribution of trade unions  in that process with a focus on the full spectrum of conflict-related issues including reconciliation, democratisation, shared... Read More...

Turning the tide in the water wars

Oct 24, 2011
The ʻTrade Unions in post conflict societyʼ project funded by the ERDF seeks through a series of seminars to promote a genuine debate within our political, policy and public/media discourse about the ʻeconomyʼ and ʻeconomicsʼ in a post conflict society. At this time of global economic crisis and the literal bankruptcy and socially negative impacts... Read More...

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