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(Gray and McAnulty, 2006 ). Backed by the International Fund for Ireland, there were also attempts to develop shared neighbourhoods across Northern Ireland, with statutory agencies working hand in hand with local communities to establish shared spaces (Goodlad et al., 2005 ). But there was recognition that these initiatives had to have grass-roots support and could not be forced on communities who
.qxd:text I RELAND ’ S 5/8/13 11:39 DIASPORA STRATEGY Page 87 87 With remittances dwindling in importance over the course of the twentieth century, initially the impact of Irish diasporic philanthropy and return migration on the economic development of the country was given priority. Ireland has a very poorly developed indigenous philanthropic landscape, but has been successful in cultivating philanthropy in the diaspora. The Ireland Funds, International Fund for Ireland (IFI), and Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) are prime examples. Over the past thirty years, the
-up practice was already being attempted (Gallagher and Carlisle, 2009) was carried out to inform the project. A proposal to promote the establishment of school networks and explore effective models of collaboration was supported by Atlantic Philanthropies and the International Fund for Ireland. The project would invite schools to participate in the project by establishing networks on the basis of the following parameters: • The network had to work towards sustained, regular engagement between the schools. • This engagement would focus on core curricular activities. • It
promote regeneration through community participation, such as the Belfast Action Teams and Making Belfast Work, and through international initiatives to promote the British–Irish peace process such as the International Fund for Ireland (Acheson and Williamson, 1995). After 1994, international support for the emergent peace process also imported changing European approaches to diversity into funding and policy in Northern Ireland, encapsulated in the a spiration of the PEACE programme to ‘deal with the legacy of conflict while taking the opportunities arising from