Community of the Peace People and Bridges to Peace Records 1987-2010

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Community of the Peace People and Bridges to Peace Records, 1987-2010

Community of the Peace People and Bridges to Peace Records 1987-2010

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Community of the Peace People, Inc. (also referred to as The Peace People, USA) was a non-profit organization founded in 1977 with the mission to increase public awareness of conflict in Northern Ireland during the late 20th-century and to provide support for the work of Mairead Corrigan Maguire’s Peace People in Belfast, the Committee for the Administration of Justice, and other organizations committed to nonviolent conflict resolution in the region. In 1997 the organization changed its name to Bridges to Peace in order to broaden its mandate while maintaining its commitment to nonviolent reconciliation efforts. Both groups supported and developed programs focused on community dialogue at the grassroots level, human rights justice, youth recreation, outreach to prisoners’ families, and increasing domestic public awareness of the Troubles. This collection contains by-laws, memoranda, correspondence, publications, newsletters, financial reports, meeting minutes, research materials, and promotional literature documenting not only the functions and activities of the Community of the Peace People and Bridges to Peace, but also the attempt on the part of a group of Americans to actively participate in the efforts to secure a lasting peace in Northern Ireland in a way that emphasized healing at the level of the local community.

3.0 linear feet; in 3 record cartons.

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