
A youth conference exploring community cohesion and peace education being held in Leeds, will welcome a special guest, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairéad Maguire from Northern Ireland.
The two-day conference, which will be held at Leeds Trinity University over the weekend (25 to 26 November), has been organised by PeaceJam UK.
It aims to welcome around 250 delegates including secondary school students from all over the UK. The educational peace programme uses the inspirational experiences of fourteen Nobel Peace Laureates to engage young people in social justice issues.
Mairéad Maguire and Betty Williams joined together to create the Community of the Peace People, to organise weekly peace demonstrations demanding an end to the violence in Northern Ireland.