Resources:

 

‘Building Cohesive Communities:  what frontline staff and  community activists need to know’ 2009

www.communities.gov.uk/documents/communities/pdf/1357439.pdf

 

'Tension monitoring and managing community conflicts at a local level’. Available through ARCH (Agencies Against Racist Crime and Harassment)

www.newcastle.gov.uk/core.nsf/a/harassment

 

'Walker: A Neighbourhood in Transition'.  A. Madanipour and  N.Bevan (click here)

 

'A General Literature Review of  Existing and Potential Community Conflict (with special reference to Walker'.  Jeff Corrighan,  December 09 (click here).   For short summary  of key points, click here.

 

Quaker Organisations:

 

Responding to Conflict www.respond.org

Newcastle Quaker Meeting www.quakers-in-newcastle.org.uk

Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust www.jrct.org.uk/

Religious Society of Friends www.quaker.org.uk

 

 

City organisations:

 

City for Peace www.newcastlecityforpeace.co.uk

Racist and homophobic  incident line  (24 hours)  0800 032 2388

 

Some conflict resolution organisations:

 

Alternatives to Violence Project (Britain) www.avpbritain.org.uk

LEAP www.leaplinx.com

Responding to Conflict www.respond.org

 

 

Other mediation agencies and work:

 

• Relate

• Paradigm

• The full circle project – ear to listen – advocacy project – kids and us

• Re:solution (workplace and other mediation)

• Northern Dispute Resolutions (commercial, workplace, and family)

• Alternative Dispute Resolution Ltd

• Harvey Marron solicitors (family)

• Caris Solicitors (commercial and family)

• Newcastle PROPS (help for families of drug users, including mediation where the drug user returns home)

• Newcastle Advocacy Centre (help for people with a learning or physical disability, older people and people with mental health problems, to get their voice heard)

• Save the Children (starting to do work with children on a range of conflicts)

• Newcastle Women’s Aid freedom programme – one-to-one and group work with women who are victims of violence, also on problems between women and their children)

• Panah – work with women from BME communities who are victims of violence

• Children North East - 5-16yr olds – addresses problems with education work with children and young people and families around counselling and mediation

• Sure Start – family support work