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Pax nostra: the role of armed forces in replacing the bonds of war with the bonds of charity

Dr Elise Lefeuvre Dr Elise Lefeuvre is adjunct lecturer at UCC School of Law. She holds a Master from Sciences Po Lyon, a MSc from LSE, and a PhD from UCC. “The starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason (1788) INTRODUCTION Military work is, in essence,… Read more »

 

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Irish Neutrality, International Peacekeeping, and Policing

Prof. Tobias Winright Tobias Winright is Professor of Moral Theology at St. Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth, and he is Associate Member of the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. INTRODUCTION: SITUATING IRELAND After visiting Ireland regularly for over 24 years, my family and I moved to Maynooth from the United States of… Read more »

 

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Nature, Consciousness and the Anthropocene– Security Within an Ecosystem?

Dr Mark Mellett Vice Admiral, Dr Mark Mellett was Ireland’s highest ranking military officer, Government’s Principal Military Advisor and member of the National Security Committee and the EU Military Committee. He now runs his own company Green Compass advocating for sustainability and is Board Chair of the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority and Sage Advocacy. INTRODUCTION… Read more »

 

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Well-Founded Fear of Reception in Ireland: No Accommodation, No Minimum Standards, No Red Lines

Eugene Quinn and David Moriarty Eugene Quinn is National Director of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Ireland, a position he has held since 2006. He was Chair of the Limerick Integration Working Group 2010-22. He was a member of the McMahon Working Group on the Protection Process, which reported to Government in June 2015. From… Read more »

 

Who would Jesus Bomb? the poster for the short documentary that has an older looking gentleman holding a sign in protest of the Shannon airport allowing the US military to use it.

Can I Get a Witness: Who Would Jesus Bomb?

Dr Kevin Hargaden and Emmet Sheerin Kevin Hargaden is Director of the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice and its Social Theologian. Emmet Sheerin is an Irish documentary maker, he traveled to the Middle East as a human rights observer where his work involved monitoring and reporting on violations of human rights and international law.… Read more »

 

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Editorial

Dr Ciara Murphy “Every war leaves our world worse than it was before. War is a failure of politics and of humanity, a shameful capitulation, a stinging defeat before the forces of evil.” Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti Pope Francis in Fratelli Tutti articulates the utter devastation which war leaves in its wake.1 As the Irish… Read more »

 

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Overturning the Economics of War to Deliver a Co-operative Future and Peaceful Green Prosperity

Deborah Burton and Dr Ho-Chih Lin Deborah Burton is one of the co-founders of Tipping Point North South, a non-profit set up by former debt, trade and tax justice campaigners to work across both the creative and NGO sectors through campaigns, events and cinema documentary production. She leads on Tipping Point North South’s primary policy/advocacy… Read more »

 

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Editorial

Martin Luther King famously said that “a riot is the language of the unheard.”1 The ordinary people of the North-East Inner-City were not involved in the riots; they are its victims. But their voices remain largely unheard. We hope that this issue of Working Notes helps raise the voices of the people of the North-East Inner- City and that the many brilliant initiatives they sustain become more famous than the tired stereotypes and caricatures that seem to dominate among our political leadership. My neighbours deserve that.

 

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Reading the City Centre Riots: Thoughts, Feelings and Reactions of the Dublin Community Co-op

Unaddressed social issues are the bedrock upon which extremist actors have been able to incite racism and
violence against migrants.

 

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Humans of the NEIC – Lewis

Lewis Byrne was born and raised in Ballybough and is a Community Worker with Dublin Community Co-Op.