Staff from the Centre for Shared Education have been invited to Mexico City to present at an international colloquium organised by the Human Rights Commission in Mexico City to celebrate their 20^th anniversary. The objective of the colloquium is to encourage a space for dialogue where multidisciplinary voices may consider how peace education may promote social justice, the respect for human rights, and the transformation of divided societies through non-violent solutions.

Invited speakers represent a diverse array of academics, practitioners, human rights promoters, and governmental institutions including representatives from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Human Rights Department of the United Nations in Mexico, National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples, the Ambassador of Spain in Mexico, UNICEF, and UNESCO among many others.

Dr Danielle Blaylock will be a part of a discussion group exploring experiences of reconstruction of the social net and building a peace culture. She will be presenting research examining direct and indirect impacts of intergroup contact experienced by young people in Northern Ireland. In addition, Dr Blaylock has been asked to speak at a two day seminar following the colloquium at the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Mexico’s national university for teacher training, in which she will discuss shared education in Northern Ireland.  

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