eighty years of talking about equality in northern ireland
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Eighty Years of Talking about Equality in Northern Ireland. Fran Porter Queen’s University Belfast Northern Ireland [email protected]. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Project Coordinator: E McLaughlin, Queen’s University Belfast
Equality and Social Inclusion in Ireland Project
Fran PorterQueen’s University Belfast
Northern [email protected]
Eighty Years of Talking about Equality in Northern Ireland
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Project Coordinator: E McLaughlin, Queen’s University Belfast
Equality and Social Inclusion in Ireland Project
Paper presented at the Pluralism and Equality
Conference, Helsinki, 18-21 May 2005
The full paper will be available from the project website at
www.qub.ac.uk/heae in June 2005
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Project Coordinator: E McLaughlin, Queen’s University Belfast
Equality Where?
How do the specific and distinct historical, socio-economic and political factors in Northern Ireland affect the emergence,
presence and/or resolution of other equality questions:
Why equality? • Equality for whom?
Equality of what? • How much equality?
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Project Coordinator: E McLaughlin, Queen’s University Belfast
Northern Ireland
o A small jurisdiction constitutionally within the United Kingdom but geographically on the island of Ireland
o Created in 1921o Population of 1.6 milliono Approximately 60% of the
population identify politically and culturally with Britain and 40% with Ireland
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Project Coordinator: E McLaughlin, Queen’s University Belfast
‘The Troubles’
• British and Irish?
• Catholic and Protestant?
• Ethnic or Sectarian?
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Project Coordinator: E McLaughlin, Queen’s University Belfast
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• Paramilitary ceasefires 1994-1997
• Multi-party talks
• The Belfast Agreement 1998
– the Good Friday Agreement
– The Northern Ireland Peace Agreement
• The Northern Ireland Act 1998• The Northern Ireland Assembly (suspended)
The ‘Peace Process’
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Project Coordinator: E McLaughlin, Queen’s University Belfast
Five Equality Domains John Baker et al (2004)
Equality from Theory to Action (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Respect and Recognition• Resources
• Love, Care and Solidarity
• Power
• Work and Learning
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Project Coordinator: E McLaughlin, Queen’s University Belfast
Equality Discourses
• Origins of the Northern Ireland State• The post World War II Welfare Provisions • Civil Rights Movement (1967)• Fair Employment Legislation • Women’s Movement• Gay and Lesbian Liberation and Rights• Racism• Disability
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Project Coordinator: E McLaughlin, Queen’s University Belfast
Peace Process 1994-2005
Nine grounds of positive
equality duties for statutory
bodies (Section 75 of the
1998 Northern Ireland Act)
• religious belief • political opinion • racial group • age • marital status • sexual orientation • men and women • persons with and without
a disability • persons with and without
dependants
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• Final questions