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INTERNATIONAL PEACE EDUCATION RESOURCES (IPER)

  • Status

    Received: on time

  • Income

    £35.5K

  • Spending

    £29.5K

Charity no. 108297 Company no. 667552 Date registered. 17/09/2021

Public benefits

The direct benefits flowing from the organisation’s purposes are: International cooperation, education and learning, mutual understanding, providing a platform for discussion amongst adults and young people in Northern Ireland about key issues affecting them, providing an outside perspective on these issues directly to them but the input of

international students. These benefits can be demonstrated by: Annual evaluation of the programme for the summerschool, academic credits awarded by universities, increased networks of collaborators, increased revenue to local firms providing services, transport and accommodation. THE TRUSTEES DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THERE IS ANY HARM ARISING FROM ITS PURPOSES. The organisation’s beneficiaries are: local and international participants in the summer schools, speakers at events, educators, participating academic partners such as Ulster University, participating community and youth organisations. There are no private benefits flowing from the organisation’s purposes.

What your organisation does

by (iii) Promoting the value of education about peace and the value of dialogue as a method of community development. (iv) Encouraging collaborative international research, knowledge development and collegiality between international participants. (v) Affording educational opportunities to a wide range of participants including those with limited

access to such education and training. (vi) Promoting practice-based learning, validation of grass-roots expertise and documentation of practice wisdom in the field of conflict resolution. through (i) providing training and educational courses and events for local and international participants (ii) working in partnership and cooperation with educational institutions, community organisations and other relevant bodies to deliver the training, courses and events. Beneficiaries will be participants in courses and events, educators, activists and researchers in the field of peace studies and reconciliation in Northern Ireland, Europe and North America and anywhere that participants live, travel and work in.

The charity’s classifications

  • The advancement of education

Who the charity helps

  • Adult training
  • Community safety/crime prevention
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Interface communities
  • Overseas/developing countries
  • Voluntary and community sector
  • Youth (14-25 year olds)

How the charity works

  • Cross-border/cross-community
  • Cultural
  • Education/training
  • Human rights/equality

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2024

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2023

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charitable purposes

The Company is established to: (a) (i) Advance the education about methods of peacebuilding; (ii) Provide opportunities for international learning, exchange and dialogue for students and community workers from Northern Ireland, United States, Europe and other locations; (b) 1. What outcomes the charity is set up to achieve? To; (i) Promote the value of education about peace and the value of dialogue as a method of community development in the area of benefit in Northern Ireland and beyond: (ii) To encourage collaborative international research, knowledge development and collegiality between international and local participants in the area of benefit: (iii) To afford educational opportunities to a wide range of participants in the area of benefit, particularly in the greater Armagh area and elsewhere in Northern Ireland, including those with limited access to such education and training. 2. How will it achieve these outcomes? (i) By the provision of training and educational courses and events for local and international participants; (ii) By working in partnership and cooperation with educational institutions, community organisations and other relevant bodies to deliver training, courses and events. 3. Who will benefit from these outcomes? Participants in courses and events, educators, activists and researchers in the field of peace studies and reconciliation. 4. Where the benefits extend to? Europe and North America and anywhere that participants live, travel and work.

Governing document

Memorandum and Articles

Other name


  • 6 Trustees
  • 0 Employees
  • 2 Volunteers

Contact details

Public address

  • Professor Marie Breen-Smyth, 91 Clady Road, Portglenone, Ballymena, BT44 8LB

Trustee board

Trustee
Felicity Mccartney
Sylvia Gordon
Roger Mcginty
Darren Kew
Nomfundo Walaza
Tracey Mcroberts

Areas of operation

List of regions

  • In Ireland
  • In Northern Ireland
  • Internationally
  • United States Of America