Reimagining the Map: Constitutional Change, These Islands, and Europe

The Belfast Women’s Assembly (BWA) in conversation with Professor Peter Shirlow, Liverpool University, about the potential for new constitutional arrangements across these islands and within Europe.

The Belfast Women’s Assembly is a civic organisation that supports women's full and equal participation in preparations for potential new constitutional arrangements across these islands. Guided by principles of equality, rights, and safety, we envisage a future where these principles are central to any constitutional change. We facilitate and encourage inclusive public and private conversations across Belfast and beyond.

We are very pleased to welcome and have a conversation with Professor Peter Shirlow, Director at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies and formerly the Deputy Director of the Institute for Conflict Transformation and Social Justice, Queens, Belfast where he is currently a Visiting Research Professor at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. He is the Independent Chair of the Executive Office's Employers' Guidance on Recruiting People with Conflict-Related Convictions Working Group and a board member of the mental health charity Threshold.

He has undertaken conflict transformation work in Northern Ireland and has used that knowledge in exchanges with governments, former combatants and NGOs in the former Yugoslavia, Moldova, Bahrain and Iraq, He has also presented talks to members of the US Senate and House of Representatives and is a regular media contributor.