The work of Mediation Northern Ireland goes beyond our core activities of dispute resolution and training services. Our practices for making peace include programmes and events that cultivate peacebuilding in Northern Ireland and beyond.
Below you can find out more about our practices of peace, other services we provide (such as room hire) and some of the past programmes that the organisation has been involved in.
Mediation Northern Ireland offers low cost room hire in South Belfast. Our rooms are suitable for training, meetings, interviews, and assessment centres. Our rooms available are:
The Wheatley Room
With mostly soft seating, this comfortable room provides the perfect space for your group’s event when comfort and setting are the key ingredients. This room benefits from natural light, a fixed whiteboard and several power points.
The Hokusai Room
This multi-purpose space can host a range of events. With tables in place, it represents the typical Board room providing a comfortable meeting space. With tables removed the room works well as a more informal meeting space, or training room. This room benefits from natural light, a fixed whiteboard and several power points.
For more information, room photos, prices and a booking form, please download our brochure.
At a workshop on “Mediation Skills in Conflict” in 1985 a small group of peace activists saw the potential for mediation in the Northern Ireland situation. By 1987 they had launched the Northern Ireland Conflict and Mediation Association (NICMA), with the aim of promoting the use of mediation through training. The organisation was constituted and charitable status sought in 1991.
Throughout the years, the organisation continued its work in various sectors and at many levels in our society (an approach now known as ‘systemic’). One of the significant achievements of Mediation Northern Ireland’s work has been to maintain relevance and credibility in many sectors (community, business, statutory, public and political). Furthermore, it has demonstrated the possibility of being an independent, impartial indigenous organisation in a historically divided and conflicted society.
As the end to violence approached and arrived, the organisation used mediation approaches to provide key strategic leaders the space to creatively consider the challenges they faced. The more structured, and long-term, of these processes were Good Relations Forums.
Since the turn of the century the cumulative learning from this work was used in the North West of England to develop new practice on cohesion issues helping local practitioners working on contention and dysfunction in local relations, including Guns & Gangs specific issues.
This approach to local relations was subsequently used in Northern Ireland through our Social Partnership Programme, a 6 year programme to develop capacity to deal with contentious issues locally through improved partnership between community, statutory and public bodies, and a local mediation resource.
Our MOST programme worked for 3 years on three distinct and interlinking strands. Firstly, Transnational Good Practice Exchanges for practitioners in Northern Ireland and Europe. Secondly, Action Learning and Networking. Thirdly, Informing Good practice.
More recently, our Roma Romanian Community Development and AMAL programmes have worked with newly arrived people in Belfast to increase a sense of belonging, make local connections and increase capacity within these communities to integrate fully into Northern Irish life.
Information on recent events can be found on our articles page. If you would like to find out more about our history and past programmes of work, please contact us.
Mediation Northern Ireland offers low cost room hire in South Belfast. Our rooms are suitable for training, meetings, interviews, and assessment centres. Our rooms available are:
The Wheatley Room
With mostly soft seating, this comfortable room provides the perfect space for your group’s event when comfort and setting are the key ingredients. This room benefits from natural light, a fixed whiteboard and several power points.
The Hokusai Room
This multi-purpose space can host a range of events. With tables in place, it represents the typical Board room providing a comfortable meeting space. With tables removed the room works well as a more informal meeting space, or training room. This room benefits from natural light, a fixed whiteboard and several power points.
For more information, room photos, prices and a booking form, please download our brochure.
At a workshop on “Mediation Skills in Conflict” in 1985 a small group of peace activists saw the potential for mediation in the Northern Ireland situation. By 1987 they had launched the Northern Ireland Conflict and Mediation Association (NICMA), with the aim of promoting the use of mediation through training. The organisation was constituted and charitable status sought in 1991.
Throughout the years, the organisation continued its work in various sectors and at many levels in our society (an approach now known as ‘systemic’). One of the significant achievements of Mediation Northern Ireland’s work has been to maintain relevance and credibility in many sectors (community, business, statutory, public and political). Furthermore, it has demonstrated the possibility of being an independent, impartial indigenous organisation in a historically divided and conflicted society.
As the end to violence approached and arrived, the organisation used mediation approaches to provide key strategic leaders the space to creatively consider the challenges they faced. The more structured, and long-term, of these processes were Good Relations Forums.
Since the turn of the century the cumulative learning from this work was used in the North West of England to develop new practice on cohesion issues helping local practitioners working on contention and dysfunction in local relations, including Guns & Gangs specific issues.
This approach to local relations was subsequently used in Northern Ireland through our Social Partnership Programme, a 6 year programme to develop capacity to deal with contentious issues locally through improved partnership between community, statutory and public bodies, and a local mediation resource.
Our MOST programme worked for 3 years on three distinct and interlinking strands. Firstly, Transnational Good Practice Exchanges for practitioners in Northern Ireland and Europe. Secondly, Action Learning and Networking. Thirdly, Informing Good practice.
More recently, our Roma Romanian Community Development and AMAL programmes have worked with newly arrived people in Belfast to increase a sense of belonging, make local connections and increase capacity within these communities to integrate fully into Northern Irish life.
Information on recent events can be found on our articles page. If you would like to find out more about our history and past programmes of work, please contact us.
About Mediation NI :- Our aim is to support parties dealing with change, contention, conflict and difference to find acceptable and non violent agreement. We have been working with individuals, communities and organisations in the public, private and third sector since 1991. Our services are based in Belfast but we work across Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Great Britain and internationally.
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