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14/05/2004
Former Clinton advisor to address UUJ
President Bill Clinton’s former Special Advisor on Northern Ireland affairs, Jim Lyons, is coming back to the University of Ulster next week to deliver keynote speeches on how economic initiatives have helped boost the drive for peace in the province.
Mr Lyons, one of the top lawyers in the US and a long-time overseer of the International Fund for Ireland, will address audiences at the Transitional Justice Institute of the University at Jordanstown on May 17 and at INCORE, the conflict resolution body at Magee campus in Londonderry the following day.
The topic for his speeches is “Peace Meets the Streets: The Role of Economic Initiatives in the NI Peace Process”.
Mr Lyons has long involvement in peace and economic development initiatives in Northern Ireland. In 1993 he was appointed the US Observer to the International Fund for Ireland (IFI) by President Clinton.
His role was to oversee US funding for the work of the IFI to which the US contributes more than £13m annually.
To date projects funded by the IFI - which was set up in 1986 – have generated some 20,000 full-time equivalent jobs and the IFI has contributed more than £300m to cross-community programmes primarily in disadvantaged areas throughout Northern Ireland.
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Mr Lyons, one of the top lawyers in the US and a long-time overseer of the International Fund for Ireland, will address audiences at the Transitional Justice Institute of the University at Jordanstown on May 17 and at INCORE, the conflict resolution body at Magee campus in Londonderry the following day.
The topic for his speeches is “Peace Meets the Streets: The Role of Economic Initiatives in the NI Peace Process”.
Mr Lyons has long involvement in peace and economic development initiatives in Northern Ireland. In 1993 he was appointed the US Observer to the International Fund for Ireland (IFI) by President Clinton.
His role was to oversee US funding for the work of the IFI to which the US contributes more than £13m annually.
To date projects funded by the IFI - which was set up in 1986 – have generated some 20,000 full-time equivalent jobs and the IFI has contributed more than £300m to cross-community programmes primarily in disadvantaged areas throughout Northern Ireland.
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