Northern Ireland's Troubles - Walls of Shame
The modern history of Northern Ireland has been dominated by one thing, 'The Troubles' - a violent, bitter conflict, both political and religious, between those claiming to represent the predominantly Catholic nationalists and those claiming to represent the mainly Protestant unionists.
But what Northern Ireland has now is not so much 'peace' as 'an absence of conflict' after the Good Friday Agreement was signed in 1998. Far from disappearing, the walls have grown. Instead of reconciliation, there is partition - an ill-tempered stalemate of separate identities and separated lives.
Broadly speaking, the nationalists - also called 'Republicans' - want Northern Ireland to be unified with the Republic of Ireland while the unionists want it to remain part of the United Kingdom, along with England, Wales and Scotland.
This episode of the Walls of Shame series looks at life on both sides of the barriers between the warring communities.
Update: Al Jazeera returned to Belfast, almost a decade after this film first aired in 2007, to touch base with Catholic muralist Danny Devenny. As the walls of separation - or 'protection' as some view the barriers - start to come down, much of Danny and his muralist friends' work is also being destroyed, with calls to 'reimagine' their art.
The government has vowed to destroy the walls but the community is reluctant, scared and not appreciative of attempts to gloss over a difficult past.
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Northern Ireland to hold snap vote after government collapse
The people of Northern Ireland will vote to elect a new assembly on March 2 following the surprise resignation of the deputy first minister.
The departure of veteran Republican leader Martin McGuinness last week in protest over a financial scandal led to the collapse of a delicate power sharing government.
Al Jazeera’s Neave Barker reports from Belfast.
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Death On The Rock, SAS execute IRA cell in Gibraltar, Thames Television (1988)
SEE ALSO: Death On The Rock researcher Alison Cahn: whatever happened to UK investigative journalism?
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LESSONS LEARNED IN NORTHERN IRELAND UNDER THE GOOD FRIDAY AGREEMENT THAT CAN HELP SOLVE CONFLICTS IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD WILL BE PARTICULARLY VALUED
Not just the death of British justice but the death of British investigative TV too!
The back story with this film is it illustrates how low BBC & UK TV has sunk since 1988.
Thames TV lost the London ITV franchise after this film was broadcast. Death on the Rock was the title of a documentary in the current affairs series This Week, made by Thames Television and broadcast on the ITV network on 28 April 1988. The programme investigated the incident, on Sunday 6 March 1988, when three members of the IRA, sent to Gibraltar on an active service mission, were shot and killed by members of British special forces. The incident, and subsequently the programme about it, became controversial as a result of uncertainty and conflicting evidence about the manner in which the killing was carried out and the degree to which it was an execution with no attempted arrest. The programme interviewed witnesses who claimed to have heard no prior warning given by the SAS troops and to have seen the shooting as one carried out in cold blood. Furthermore, the defence that the IRA team might, if allowed time, have had the capacity to trigger by remote control a car bomb in the main street, was also subject to criticism, including that from an Army bomb disposal expert.
Claiming that its transmission prior to the official inquest was an impediment to justice, the then foreign secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, attempted to stop the programme being broadcast by writing to the chairman of the Independent Broadcasting Authority, Lord Thomson of Monifieth. Lord Thomson refused to prevent transmission noting that the issues as we see them relate to free speech and free inquiry which underpin individual liberty in a democracy. Following transmission, there was some criticism of the programme's investigative stance in the press (e.g. Storm at SAS Telly Trial The Sun; Fury over SAS 'Trial by TV', Daily Mail; TV Slur on the SAS, Daily Star). Subsequently, a number of papers, notably The Sunday Times and The Sun, attempted to show not only that the programme's procedures of inquiry were faulty but that the character of some of its witnesses was dubious (in one case, this latter charge resulted in a successful libel action being brought).
Such was the debate which developed around the programme, intensified by one of its witnesses subsequently repudiating his testimony in it, that an independent inquiry was conducted at the behest of Thames Television.
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Travel as a Political Act: Rick Steves on Dialogue
Guidebook author and PBS travel host Rick Steves talks with Dialogue host Marcia Franklin about his philosophy of 'travel as a political act,' and how his documentaries on Israel/Palestine and Iran illustrate that.
Senator George Mitchell launches Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice
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Art of Conflict | [Trailer] [HD] | Netflix
Art of Conflict: The Murals of Northern Ireland (Watch here: examines street murals in Northern Ireland as an expression of the region's violent history through the perspective of those who created them. Filmed in Northern Ireland, the documentary provides interviews with local muralists, political figures, noted mural historians, art community members, and people who live and work in the region. Narrated by actor Vince Vaughn and directed by his sister Valeri Vaughn, the doc will be available exclusively for Netflix members beginning June 1.
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A climate of fear: what the past tells us about human responses to climate change (9 June 2011)
Lunch Hour Lecture on tour at the British Museum: A climate of fear: what the past tells us about human responses to climate change
Dr Joe Flatman (UCL Institute of Archaeology)
Linking in with World Environment Day (5 June 2010), archaeologist Joe Flatman uses ten objects from the British Museum to explore what the past tells us about human responses to climate change. The barrage of conflicting information about climate change can seem insurmountable - a mass of data on a problem too big for any one person to understand or any one community to manage. Archaeology offers a key to unlocking this problem: ancient objects from around the world provide us with insights into how people in the past dealt with, perceived of, responded to and ultimately prospered in changing climates. Archaeology thus also provides analogies for how modern society can face the 'climate challenge' in the 21st century -- and beyond.
USA: SINN FEIN LEADER GERRY ADAMS VISIT
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Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams voiced hope Tuesday about prospects for peace in Northern Ireland but again called for direct talks between his party and the British Government.
London won't hold top level talks with Adams who heads the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, until they are sure that a ceasefire which has ended 25 years of terrorist violence in Northern Ireland, will stick.
Adams is in Washington to lobby American political opinion and promote the party's goal of a united Ireland.
Gerry Adam's Washington visit is top news in America.
Opening Sinn Fein's new lobbying and fund raising operation in the United States, even Mr. Adams seemed a little overcome by the large number of media from throughout America and the world.
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This is the most important capital in the world and it's a very important step, opens up a new phase of Sinn Fein's efforts to move the peace process forward and to engage with mainstream American, U-S, North American opinion.
SUPER CAPTION: Gerry Adams, President of Sinn Fein
Outwardly, at least, President Clinton's decision to allow Gerry Adams to visit and fund- raise freely in America, has damaged relations with London.
During an exchange with a British journalist at a press conference at the White House, a clearly embarrassed and irritated Presidential spokesman tried to shirk off an apparent snub by Prime Minister John Major.
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Q: (off camera) I wonder if you could explain the failure of the President to get through on the telephone to British Prime Minister John Major on Saturday. I believe that Downing Street are now saying that Mr. Major was too busy to take his call.
A: I don't believe that's at all what they say. I think they correctly pointed out that he's travelling abroad.
Q: He was in London at the time the call was made
A: He was...he was due to depart shortly to the Middle East.
SUPER CAPTION: Mike McCurry, White House Press Spokesman
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Q: (off camera) Mr Adams, today Sir Patrick Mayhew sent a letter to every member of parliament saying that the March 9 statement didn't provide clear and reliable assurance needed for talks with ministers. How do you respond to that?
A: Well I am in touch with my office on Belfast and in fact we have been in touch with the British and we'll hope to ensure that the commitment made by the British and the necessary commitment to end the ban on ministerial contact with Sinn Fein will happen in the very near future.
SUPER CAPTION: Gerry Adams, President of Sinn Fein
And last night in an APTV interview in Washington, Gerry Adams reiterated that view, clearly believing the current frosty air in London will not unduly delay direct talks.
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Well it's difficult to read so may types of conflicting signals and everyone understands and knows that there is a need for talks. The civil servants can only bring it so far, there is a need for a policy maker to be in there not just to discuss the decommission of weapons but to discuss a whole range of issues. And I have been in touch today with my office back in Ireland and I am hopeful as I said earlier that we can move to that point fairly soon.
SUPER CAPTION: Gerry Adams, President of Sinn Fein
Tomorrow Adams returns to New York for the new organisations first major fund raiser - a two hundred dollar a plate lunch. He'll meet President Clinton on Thursday, and again on Friday.
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A Generation of Peace: Northern Ireland, Then and Now-Welcome and Peacerunner Conversation
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April 18, 2018 | 2018 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement—a key component in the Northern Ireland Peace Process that brought together political actors from the United States, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Great Britain. Over the course of a day-long conference, speakers recounted the events that led to this historic agreement, as well as looked to the prospects and challenges for the future of Ireland.
Congressman Bruce Morrison, who was vital in persuading President Clinton to support the drive for peace, opened the conference in conversation with author Penn Rhodeen. Scholars and practitioners explored the historical, social, political, religious, and cultural factors that affected Ireland’s past and may impact its future in a series of panels. Senator George Mitchell concluded the conference by reflecting on his role as President Clinton’s Special Envoy to Northern Ireland during the Good Friday Agreement negotiations.
Hillary Clinton | Wikipedia audio article
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Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, U.S. Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, and as the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.
Born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Clinton graduated from Wellesley College in 1969 and earned a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1973. After serving as a congressional legal counsel, she moved to Arkansas and married Bill Clinton in 1975. In 1977, she co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. She was appointed the first female chair of the Legal Services Corporation in 1978 and became the first female partner at Rose Law Firm the following year. As First Lady of Arkansas, she led a task force whose recommendations helped reform Arkansas's public schools.
As First Lady of the United States, Clinton was an advocate for gender equality and healthcare reform. Her marital relationship came under public scrutiny during the Lewinsky scandal, which led her to issue a statement that reaffirmed her commitment to the marriage. In 2000, Clinton was elected as the first female Senator from New York. She was reelected to the Senate in 2006. Running for president in 2008, she won far more delegates than any previous female candidate but lost the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama. During her tenure as U.S. Secretary of State in the Obama Administration from 2009 to 2013, Clinton responded to the Arab Spring by advocating military intervention in Libya. She helped to organize a diplomatic isolation and international sanctions regime against Iran in an effort to force curtailment of that country's nuclear program; this would eventually lead to the multinational Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreement in 2015. Upon leaving her Cabinet position after Obama's first term, she wrote her fifth book and undertook speaking engagements.
Clinton made a second presidential run in 2016. She received the most votes and primary delegates in the 2016 Democratic primaries and formally accepted her party's nomination for President of the United States on July 28, 2016 with vice presidential running mate Senator Tim Kaine. She became the first female candidate to be nominated for president by a major U.S. political party. She lost the presidential election to Republican opponent Donald Trump in the Electoral College, despite winning a plurality of the popular vote. She received more than 65 million votes, the 3rd-highest count in a U.S. presidential election, behind Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012. Following her loss, she wrote her third memoir, What Happened, and launched Onward Together, a political action organization dedicated to fundraising for progressive political groups.
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David Armitage, Civil War: A Genealogy
Civil war is like pornography--we think know it when we see it. Yet ideas of civil war have a long and contested history with multiple meanings and contested applications. This lecture offers a critical history of conceptions of civil war, with special attention to its legal definition since the nineteenth century. The application of the term civil war can depend on whether you are a ruler or a rebel, the victor or the vanquished, an established government or an interested third party. It can also determine whether outside powers intervene, which provisions of international humanitarian laws, and what international aid bodies like the World Bank are willing to invest in war-torn countries. Conflict over its meaning, as well as the meaning of conflict, demand historical reconstruction to illuminate contemporary confusions about civil war.
David Armitage is is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Harvard University. This lecture was recorded on May 9, 2013, as the annual Maurice and Muriel Fulton Lecture in Legal History.
Pearson Global Forum 2018
On Friday, October 5, The Pearson Institute will bring together international policy-makers, non-governmental organizations, and academics to create a robust agenda for the inaugural Pearson Global Forum.
With keynote addresses from U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth, former U.S. Senator George J. Mitchell, President of the U.S. Institute of Peace Nancy Lindborg, and former President of the UN General Assembly Vuk Jeremić, the conference will couple academic research and first-hand experiences to promote research practices and inform public policy.
Nebraska Stories | A Duty to Protest
When Tim Butz returned home from the Vietnam War and enrolled at Kent State, he unknowingly went from one battleground to another.
At 17, Tim Butz enlisted in the Air Force and did a tour of duty in Vietnam, following four generations of men in his family serving in uniform dating back to the Civil War. After being honorably discharged in 1969, he enrolled at Kent State University in Ohio. Just more than a year later, on May 4, 1970, the National Guard opened fire on protesters at Kent State and Butz was there. The Kent State shootings not only deeply intensified Butz’ own previously conflicted opposition to the war but increased the U.S. public’s concerns as well. Butz became one of the national organizers of the Vietnam veterans protest movement and spent the following three decades of his career fighting for the disabled, fair housing and civil liberties. A former Executive Director of ACLU Nebraska and the Nebraska Justice Center, and former Assistant Director of the Fair Housing Center of Nebraska and Iowa, Butz now volunteers at his local Disabled American Veterans office, connecting with veterans from various conflicts. He shares his perspective on the Vietnam War and how those issues reverberate still today.
Hillary Clinton | Wikipedia audio article
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, U.S. Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, and as the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.
Born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Clinton graduated from Wellesley College in 1969 and earned a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1973. After serving as a congressional legal counsel, she moved to Arkansas and married Bill Clinton in 1975. In 1977, she co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. She was appointed the first female chair of the Legal Services Corporation in 1978 and became the first female partner at Rose Law Firm the following year. As First Lady of Arkansas, she led a task force whose recommendations helped reform Arkansas's public schools.
As First Lady of the United States, Clinton was an advocate for gender equality and healthcare reform. Her marital relationship came under public scrutiny during the Lewinsky scandal, which led her to issue a statement that reaffirmed her commitment to the marriage. In 2000, Clinton was elected as the first female Senator from New York. She was reelected to the Senate in 2006. Running for president in 2008, she won far more delegates than any previous female candidate but lost the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama. During her tenure as U.S. Secretary of State in the Obama Administration from 2009 to 2013, Clinton responded to the Arab Spring by advocating military intervention in Libya. She helped to organize a diplomatic isolation and international sanctions regime against Iran in an effort to force curtailment of that country's nuclear program; this would eventually lead to the multinational Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreement in 2015. Upon leaving her Cabinet position after Obama's first term, she wrote her fifth book and undertook speaking engagements.
Clinton made a second presidential run in 2016. She received the most votes and primary delegates in the 2016 Democratic primaries and formally accepted her party's nomination for President of the United States on July 28, 2016 with vice presidential running mate Senator Tim Kaine. She became the first female candidate to be nominated for president by a major U.S. political party. She lost the presidential election to Republican opponent Donald Trump in the Electoral College, despite winning a plurality of the popular vote. She received more than 65 million votes, the 3rd-highest count in a U.S. presidential election, behind Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012. Following her loss, she wrote her third memoir, What Happened, and launched Onward Together, a political action organization dedicated to fundraising for progressive political groups.
2018 Georgetown Commencement Speaker Brendan Tuohey
It's normal everyday people that are striving for a shared and peaceful existence, including police and community developing safer neighborhoods through sports.
Georgetown's 2018 commencement speaker Brendan Tuohey, co-founder and executive director of PeacePlayers, shared how his work has allowed him to travel to many places to witness struggles and to meet with heroic individuals.
Participants of PeacePlayers have found it in themselves to be righteous leaders. They've been able to do so by knowing themselves, by being in the middle of things, by seeking heroic ambitions, and by being men and women for others. We too can all be righteous leaders.
With our political leaders and institutions increasingly divided, it's up to us individuals to do what we know is right and to see the humanity in others. We need to work together to solve our pressing challenges.
It is Tuohey's hope that students will take their Georgetown degree and use it to not only better their own lives, but to follow the examples of the Jesuits and to lead with self-awareness, love and courage.
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Friends of the University of New Haven Library:Dr.Dowd & Debies-Carl - Winter is Coming to Ireland
This video is from the University of New Haven's Friends of the University of New Haven Library speaker series. This discussion from March 23, 2017 featured Dr. Christopher Dowd and Dr. Jeffrey Debies-Carl and was entitled Winter is Coming to Ireland: Game of Thrones and the Reimagining of Irish Tourism.
A recent boom in tourism in Northern Ireland has been the result of invitations (as one tourism site puts it) “to Journey to the Heart of Westeros”, the fictional world depicted in HBO’s Game of Thrones, which films in and around Belfast. In this lecture, Dr. Dowd and Dr. Debies-Carl consider how tourists are physically traveling to Ireland as a means of imaginatively traveling to a fantasy world. Ireland has served as a fantastical imaginative space in literature and art before, but here is an example of that imaginative fantasy version of Ireland intersecting with the real world—including the Irish economy and government--in a more tangible way than has ever happened before.
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