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.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0conference brought\u00a0together trade unionists, activists and academics from Britain, Ireland, Iraq, Palestine, the Basque Country and Andalusia who talked\u00a0about the challenges faced by trade unions in societies in transition.<\/p>\n
The conference focused\u00a0on:<\/p>\n
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Speakers were:<\/p>\n
Peter Bunting<\/strong> This Project is part financed by the European Union’s European Regional Development Fund through the EU’s Pease III Programme for Peace and Reconciliation managed by the Special EU Programmes body. www.seupb.org<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t
\nAss. Gen Sec Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU)<\/em>
\nAinhoa Etxaide<\/strong>
\nGen Sec Basque Nationalist Workers’ Committee (LAB)<\/em>
\nAbdullah Muhsin<\/strong>
\nTrade union Friends of Iraq (NASUWT)<\/em>
\nRepresentative<\/strong>
\nPalestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU)<\/em>
\nProfessor Mary Mellor<\/strong>
\nSustainable Cities Research Institute<\/em>
\nNorthumbria University<\/em>
\nProfessor Kathleen Lynch<\/strong>
\nEquality Studies, School of Social Justice UCD<\/em>
\nMar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Lera<\/strong>
\nAndalusian Workers Union (SAT)<\/em>
\nDaniel Blackburn<\/strong>
\nInternational Centre for Trade Union Rights (ICTUR)<\/em>
\nDr Zak Cope<\/strong>
\nResearcher in Political Theory<\/em>
\nErick Gcilitshana<\/strong>
\nSouth Africa National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)<\/em>
\nAdam Letshele<\/strong>
\nCompensation Officer at the NUM<\/em>
\nMariela Kohon<\/strong>
\nJustice for Colombia<\/em><\/p>\n