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The Stagnation of Urban Renewal

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Late last year the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) released the updated Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measures. There were no surprises here: half of the most deprived Super Output Areas (SOAs) are in Belfast, a fifth are in the North West, and the rest are scattered in mostly rural communities. There is very little movement in and out of the top 100. The absence of a steady flow of continuous and dynamic data has contributed to stagnation and …

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Is Your Child Green or Orange?

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Children in Northern Ireland are continuing to be shoe-horned into Orange and Green identities, by the very programme set up to break down divisions. This article draws on a recent FOI request to the NI Executive, to show how children participating in ‘Together: Building a United Community’ (TBUC) Camps, ended up being designated as one community background or the other. A factor which surely makes it more difficult to break out of the cycle of polarisation in Northern Ireland, and which …

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Ulster University release new report on public attitudes to Peace Walls.

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PEACE WALLS: New research commissioned by the Department of Justice and carried out by Ulster University has revealed some interesting findings about how the public view peace walls. This survey follows on from similar research carried out by the Institute for Research in Social Sciences back in 2012.