{"id":189,"date":"2012-09-27T11:56:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T11:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourafterconflict.org\/?p=189"},"modified":"2014-05-19T14:29:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T14:29:38","slug":"betty-sinclair-winter-school-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourafterconflict.org\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"Betty Sinclair Winter School 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

22nd \u2013 24th November 2012<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

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The theme of the 2012\u00a0school was the ‘Double Transition’:<\/span><\/p>\n

“Societies in transition from violence to peace or forms of authoritarian rule to more democratic systems also experience an economic transition which has been characterised by a transition from social democratic, corporatist or managed economies to economies run on the broad principles\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>understood as neo-liberal.”<\/span><\/p>\n

It is evident that the current crisis is providing ample opportunity for this transition to be implemented in peaceful states as well as those emerging from conflict. The school investigated the impact of this transition on the stability and security of those societies with a focus on:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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  • Labour rights as human rights<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Austerity and Inequality<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Democracy and alternative futures<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
  • The state of the Union<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    \u00a0Speakers were:<\/span><\/p>\n

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    • Dr Andrew Baker<\/strong> \u2013 Reader in Political Economy at QUB<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Dr John Barry<\/strong> \u2013 Centre for Progressive Economics,School of Politics QUB<\/span><\/li>\n
    • John Douglas<\/strong> \u2013 General Secretary of Mandate Union<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Professor John Hendy QC<\/strong> \u2013 Leading QC and Vice president of the International Centre for Trade Unions Rights<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Dr Brian Kelly<\/strong> \u2013 Reader in History at GUB and a labour historian<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Dr Conor McCabe<\/strong> \u2013 Historian and author<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Peter McColl<\/strong> \u2013 Rector of the University of Edinburgh<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Paul MacFlynn<\/strong> \u2013 Economist working at the NEVIN Economic Research Institute<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Mary Murphy<\/strong> \u2013 Lecturer in Irish Politics and Society and co-author of <\/span><\/span><\/span>Towards the Second Republic; Irish Politics after the Celtic Tiger<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
    • Sinead Pentony<\/strong> \u2013 Former Head of Policy as TASC, an independent think tank<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      Betty Sinclair:<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

      Betty Sinclair was born into a working-class Protestant family in the Ardoyne area of North Belfast in 1910. Active in the outdoor relief protests in 1932 she was a founding member of the Communist Party of Ireland in 1933. She was secretary of the Belfast and District Trade Union Council from 1947 to 1975.\u00a0 Betty was the Trades Council\u2019s representative at talks which founded the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) in 1967, serving as its first Chairperson. She died in 1981.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      22nd \u2013 24th November 2012   The theme of the 2012\u00a0school was the ‘Double Transition’: “Societies in transition from violence to peace or forms of authoritarian rule to more democratic systems also experience an economic transition which has been characterised by a transition from social democratic, corporatist or managed economies to economies run on the broad principles\u00a0understood as neo-liberal.” It is evident that the current crisis is providing ample opportunity for this transition to be implemented in peaceful states as well as those emerging from conflict. The school investigated the impact of this transition on the stability and security of those societies with a focus on: Labour rights as human rights Austerity and Inequality Democracy and alternative futures The state of the Union \u00a0Speakers were: Dr Andrew Baker \u2013 Reader in Political Economy at QUB Dr John Barry \u2013 Centre for Progressive Economics,School of Politics QUB John Douglas \u2013 General Secretary of Mandate Union Professor John Hendy QC \u2013 Leading QC and Vice president of the International Centre for Trade Unions Rights Dr Brian Kelly \u2013 Reader in History at GUB and a labour historian Dr Conor McCabe \u2013 Historian and author Peter McColl \u2013 Rector of the University of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourafterconflict.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourafterconflict.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourafterconflict.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourafterconflict.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourafterconflict.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourafterconflict.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourafterconflict.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourafterconflict.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourafterconflict.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourafterconflict.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}