Helen of Troy was a legendary figure in Greek mythology, famous for her beauty, and considered the indirect cause of the Trojan War.
The "Northern Ireland women's peace train" was not a single event but a reference to the larger Peace Train Organisation and its significant involvement of women in its cross-community efforts, though it was not solely a women's initiative.
The organization's main activity was organizing symbolic train journeys between Dublin and Belfast from 1989 to 1995 to protest against the Provisional IRA's bombing of the railway line.
Women played a vital role in leading and coordinating these events, such as Eileen Bell, who coordinated several of the peace trains. Additionally, women were central to other peace-building efforts during this period, notably the founding of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition in 1996 to ensure women's voices were heard in the official peace talks.
Peace Train Organisation
Formed in 1989, it was a cross-community and cross-border campaign that organized train journeys to protest the violence of the Troubles and the bombing of the Dublin-Belfast railway line. The organization hired trains to carry hundreds of people from all over Ireland on symbolic journeys, creating public rallies at their destinations. Women were actively involved in organizing and participating in the Peace Train movement. For instance, Eileen Bell served as a coordinator for several of the trains, which ran between 1991 and 1995. The final train ran one week after the 1993 Shankill Road bombing, at the request of people from the area.Women's role in the broader peace process
In 1996, various women's groups formed the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition to ensure women's perspectives were included in the peace talks. The Coalition went on to secure two seats in the Northern Ireland Forum and played a role in ensuring that issues like integrated education and support for victims were included in the Good Friday Agreement.
- Just one more before our current situation in Britain:Kemi Bad Enough seems quite ineffectual, bringing down the Conservative Party, yet viewed another way, she is doing precisely as her WEF masters wished ... to pave the way for Labour to get in, stay in and do their wrecking.In a similar way, Pam Bondi was appointed in the US precisely because she'd do nothing on Epstein, plus she had the bloodymindedness to dismiss the entire MAGA movement which had re-elected The Donald.
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