THE JUNCTION
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A Community Relations Resource & Peace Building Centre ~
Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Staff
Maureen
Hetherington
Coordinator
Maureen has an M.A. in Humanities and has been working in the field of community relations in a full-time capacity for twelve years. She was responsible for the Community Relations Programme for Derry City Council for ten years before heading up the creation of The Junction.
Maureen has headed
up several major projects such as: Seeing Sense: Prejudice Challenge
Resource (now in every post-primary school in Northern Ireland), The
Right to Hope Project (conflict resolution programme with young people
which is cross-community, cross-cultural and cross-border), and Towards
Understanding and Healing, a project housed at The Junction.
She directed the research and publication of books such as My Faith,
Our Faith and Children in Crossfire. In the capacity of
Chairperson of An Crann/The Tree, she
supported publications
such as Bear in Mind These Troubles, All our Yesterdays,
and Crossings.
Maureen was formerly on the Board of Healing Through Remembering and The Touchstone Project (headed up by Victims Liaison Unit). She is currently on the Board of the Community Relations Council, N.I. and is on the Steering Committee of The Legacy Project, Warrington Peace Centre. She is also a Trustee of Foyle Down's Syndrome Trust and Holywell Trust.
Maureen has travelled extensively as part of her work, building connections with individuals and organisations in other conflict and post-conflict areas. She travelled to South Africa with a (former) Minister of State for Victims in a study capacity on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She has also travelled to the Balkans (where she tutored teachers and youth workers in conflict management and resolution), the Middle East, and Cyprus, among other places. She has been involved in several international dialogue groups such as the Boston Research Centre for the 21st Century and To Reflect and Trust.
Through her experience working with many different and varied community relations projects, Maureen saw the need for an organisation that could address the fragmentation and isolation of community relations practitioners and organisations working in the field. The Junction was established for this purpose. Maureen continues to look for new ways for the centre to fulfil its local, national, and international remit, to reach out to the community, and to connect those doing community relations and peace building work.
Contact Maureen: mhetherington@thejunction-ni.org
Richie
Hetherington
Administrator
Richie began work with The Junction in October 2004. He manages bookings and billings for the Centre, among many other important duties, and welcomes visitors.
Contact Richie: rhetherington@thejunction-ni.org
While on sabbatical, Richie is replaced by Johnny
Nikki
D'Adamo
Education & Outreach Officer
Nikki came to The Junction through the Brethren Volunteer Service, a U.S.-based volunteer program. Originally from Virginia, Nikki graduated with a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University in 1999. While at university, her interest in issues of social justice took her to Costa Rica, Honduras, and South Africa, where she studied arts and social change in the context of post-apartheid society. After graduation, Nikki spent four and a half years in both Arkansas and Alabama as a volunteer with Heifer International, a hunger organization focused on grassroots
community development. She pursued graduate studies at Auburn University in 2004, before joining The Junction and TUH staff in September 2005.
Contact Nikki: ndadamo@thejunction-ni.org
Audrey
Guichon
Training and Outreach Officer
Audrey holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway. After graduating, she worked as an intern at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International, London before moving to the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre in New Delhi, India.
Back in Europe, she was responsible for the setting up and development of the Network for European Women’s Rights at the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics (University of Birmingham), a European
network of activists and academics involved in the issues of trafficking, reproductive rights, political participation and social entitlements. After 3 years developing the Network, she moved to Northern Ireland to work as a Research Associate with INCORE – International Conflict Research – at the University of Ulster. She joined The Junction in June 2006.
Audrey has published in various areas of human rights; her latest publication is Women’s Social Rights and Entitlements (with van den Anker and Novikova), published by Palgrave in 2006. She has participated in numerous workshops and presented at various conferences; she is presently working with Anti-Slavery International, London on a project on migrant workers and forced labour.
Contact Audrey: aguichon@thejunction-ni.org
Jacqueline
McColgan
Administrator
Jackie began work with The Junction in December 2006. In addition to her separate responsibilities with YES! Publications and the Walled City Consortium Project, she is responsible for The Junction's European funding.
Contact Jackie: jmccolgan@thejunction-ni.org
The Junction - 8 Bishop St. - Derry/Londonderry - BT48 6PW- Northern Ireland
Tel: +44 28 7136 1942 ~ Fax: +44 28 7126 4641
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