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Young Voices - Politics in Action

Politics in Action will bring over 200 young people from across the island and from different parts of our education system to Queen's University to present their ideas about what peace means to them.

Stormont building
Date(s)
April 18, 2023
Location
Peter Froggat Centre
Time
10:00 - 16:00

What Peace Means to Me, The Voice of Young People

Event programme
Time Details
10.00am Delegates Arrive (250 School Pupils)
10:45am

Youth Forum and Engagement with leaders. Special Guests to be announced.

Youth workers and teachers in attendance.

12.30pm

Lunch

Young people can mingle and meet young people from the other projects

1.15pm Young people, teachers and youth workers move to the lecture theatre
1.30pm Welcome
1.40pm Launch of new PiA brand and website
1.50pm
Panel 1:
  • Sarah Friar, Nextdoor and Ladies Who Launch
  • Professor Monica McWilliams
  • Katrina Fotovat, Acting Ambassador-at-Large, Office of Global Women’s Issues, U.S. Department of State
Chaired by

Aoife Mallon, PiA Trustee and Women's Sector Lobbyist.

Some questions will be submitted in advance and others from the floor.

2:55pm
Panel 2:

Young Members of the Legislative Assembly in conversation with the forum

Chaired by

Dermot Hamill, PiA participant and QUB Student

3.55pm

Closing thoughts and vote of thanks

Poem from Loreto Milford Student

4:00pm Close

Invitation only. For further information please contactpaul@politicsinaction.org

Find out more about the events planned to mark 25 years of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement: Agreement 25

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