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Network of Commemoration - Overview

Original Recommendation

The Healing Through Remembering Report of 2002 recommended establishing a network that will link the diverse forms of commemoration and remembering work, learn from past and present initiatives, facilitate information exchange, and improve access and activity between those involved in commemoration and remembering work and society at large.

The specific purposes of the network would be to:

- Link and network the diverse forms of remembering and commemoration work being undertaken in and about Northern Ireland;
- Enable all future work of remembering to take account of ongoing and past work in the field;
- Enable those involved in such work to build on and learn from this work;
- Facilitate information exchange between those participating in the network, and support collaborative work, where it arises;
- Improve access to the work of network members by a wider audience, providing the outsider with an overview of the range of work going on in the field;
- Increase public involvement in commemoration and remembering work across political divides, and
- Establish and secure co-operation and support of a critical mass of those engaged in this work.


The proposed activities for the Network of Commemoration Sub Group include:
- Arranging visits
- Fund-raise and undertake income generation
- Maintain a central directory
- Publicise the network
- Hold regular meeting and events
- Hold members meetings
- Identify and learn from good practice
- Host an annual conference