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A delegation from Northern Ireland made up of the CIPCRI team and Ms Evelyn Collins (Equality Commission for Northern Ireland) and Mr Alan McBride (Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission) recently visited Bahrain to participate in discussions with human rights and equality civil … Continue reading →

In late February, Causeway along with our partner CMI were proud to host a high-level expert delegation from the Ukraine. The delegation consisted of senior Parliamentarians, Mayors and civil society leaders. They were in Northern Ireland to hear about the peace … Continue reading →

Our Chairman and Director recently visited Egypt to discuss support to political and civil society groups there. Causeway is working with a number of institutions in Egypt to consider how to enhance the capacity of evolving political parties, to support … Continue reading →

Causeway were proud to host Mr Gennadiy Druzenko in Belfast this week. Mr Druzenko is the Commissioner for Ethnonational matters in Ukraine. Over the course of the visit he met representatives from all the major political parties, leaders of a … Continue reading →

An interesting debate on Bahrain  that is well worth viewing in full to get a better sense of where the politics are in Bahrain at present.    

Charlotte Manson, from the Causeway Initiative, hosted a delegation of six ultra-orthodox Israeli rabbis affiliated with the Shas Party in a recent visit to Belfast.  This was organised in association with Forward Thinking and the East Belfast Mission.  The visit was titled … Continue reading →

The Chairman of the Causeway Initiative Jeffrey Donaldson has taken part in a workshop in Istanbul hosted by the Cordoba Foundation of Geneva and focused on a discussion between western Christian politicians and members of Islamic Salafi Parties from countries … Continue reading →

The Causeway Initiative gets a mention in this week’s Economist in an interesting article about the exporting of the Northern Ireland peace process. Lord Alderdice and Jonathan Powell, both of whom we are working with, are also referenced The article … Continue reading →

The Chairman of CIPCR, Rt Hon Jeffrey Donaldson MP, was interviewed by Eddie Mair on the BBC Radio 4 PM programme.  The interview was about the Chairman’s participation in the Afghan High Peace Council Conference held in Kabul over 21 … Continue reading →

The Chairman of the Causeway Initiative, Rt Hon Jeffrey Donaldson MP, accompanied by our Advisory Panel member Mr Denis Haughey, have just returned from participating in an International Peace Conference in Kabul. Both were invited as guest speakers to the … Continue reading →