Ennoble, Empower...Restoration

and Peace

That until the basic human rights, are equally guaranteed to all, without regard to race, I’ll say "war" --Bob Marley

Until there is no longer first

class or second class citizens of

any nation. Until the color of a

man’s skin, is of no more

significance then the color of his

eyes, I’ve got to say "war".

Until the philosophy,which holds one race superiorand another inferior,is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war.

People affected by traumatic episodes in the North’s Troubles are showing signs of mental illness decades after the events, a new study has revealed…

People who grew up in the worst years of the Troubles are the most prone to suicide in Northern Ireland…

Truth

Acceptance

Acknowledgment

HealingRestoration…

Ennobling

Empowerment

Specifically I want to talk about the "famine"About the fact that there never really was oneThere was no "famine"See Irish people were only allowed to eat potatoesAll of the other food, meat, fish, vegetables,were shipped out of the country under armed guardTo England while the Irish people starvedAnd then in the middle of all thisThey gave us money not to teach our children IrishAnd so we lost our history Sinead O’Connor

Ethnic frontiers are contested places where, in a flash, the daily lives of people and the energies of political parties can be consumed in a vortex of emotions and destructive actions.1

… the past always has the ability to disturb the present, even as the society seeks to move on through new political agreements and mutually owned institutions….1

… different groups demanding that the ‘others’ acknowledge their violence without them acknowledging their own…1

Promote spaces and relationships where people experience being at ease with different others…1

The conscious sense of an individual’s influence on their surroundings has been described as a sense of ‘mastery, control, and self-efficacy’, or psychological empowerment.2

Research is increasingly linking better outcomes among disadvantaged groups to interventions that enhance community empowerment, enabling individuals and groups to participate in or drive organizational and structural change. 2

Ennobling… taking pride in yourself, your culture, your country to accomplish what you want!

Acknowledgements1. Wilson, D.R. (2010). Promoting previously unthinkable ways- Some restorative learning tasks in Northern Ireland.

ESRC Seminar Series. University of Cambridge2. Haswell, M.R. et al. (2010). Psychometric validation of the growth and empowerment measure (GEM) applied with

Indigenous Australians. Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry. 44:791-799Special thanks to Ms. Sinead O’Connor for the song, “Famine”, which she co-wrote and composed with U2’s Adam

Clayton. This particular recording came from The Lion and the Cobra, 1997.Lyrics from “War”, a relevant Bob Marley song was also used. The song has been performed by Ms. Sinead O’Connor

in several of her concerts. The various photos came from blogs such as http://fyeah-history.tumblr.com/post/23289829070/northern-ireland-c-1971http://

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cost-of-the-troubles-16340m-for-victims-compensation-163170m for-inquiries-1514510.html

http://www.pbs.org/hueypnewton/times/times_watts.htmlhttp://saoirse32.wordpress.com/tag/troubles/,As well, I used photos shared on Aboriginal and Tribal Nation News Facebook. No photo credits were found. http://

www.facebook.com/pages/Aboriginal-and-Tribal-Nation-News/327603401367Lastly, I took many photos while in Ireland. There were too many from the various sources, and I could have gone on for many slides; however, the few I chose

met the purpose and message explicitly. Thank you, Amy Morgan Schmidt, Cherokee descendant and very proud.