Justice and peace

MS 1579/2/19

Justice and peace

1987 - 2007

Copyright: Barrow Cadbury Trust and others

Partially Closed (Data Protection Act)

Organisations involved: Barrow Cadbury Trust, Barrow Cadbury Fund Ltd., Reconciliation Programme, Justice and Peace Programme.

Previous titles and/or title variations: reconciliation.

Related grant categories: Northern Ireland; peace and international relations; Society of Friends and churches; global exchange.

Dates of use: 1993/1994 to 2002/2003.

Cadbury Trusts grant subject filing reference number(s): 2 (informal).

The justice and peace category was established in 1993/1994 under the heading 'reconciliation' as part of the general reorganisation of grant classifications following the merger of the Paul S. Cadbury Trust with the Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust in 1994. This new category was populated with outstanding grants from the defunct peace and international, Northern Ireland and Society of Friends and other churches categories. The Reconciliation Programme (later the Justice and Peace Programme) was created to supervise grant making in this area under Relevant Trustees Edward Cadbury, Erica Cadbury, James Cadbury and Roger Hickinbotham.

Initially the remit of the Reconciliation Programme was limited to international work including ongoing peace and international relations grants and community reconciliation and justice projects in Northern Ireland. The category remained under review for two years before, in 1995/1996; it came under the new super-programme 'community democracy' that also encompassed the Community Organising Programme and a short-lived separate category entitled 'Northern Ireland'. That same year the title 'reconciliation' was dropped in favour of 'justice and peace' and the Reconciliation Programme was duly renamed the Justice and Peace Programme.

Northern Ireland reconciliation and justice grants were assigned to the Northern Ireland category for two years before Trustees agreed to delete this category and transfer its grants back to the justice and peace heading. In 1998/1999 the overarching community democracy super-category was eliminated. This change does not appear to have affected the operation of the constituent Justice and Peace and Community Organising Programmes which continued to function as normal. Concurrently Trustees simplified the remit of the Justice and Peace Programme to the promotion of a just and peaceful civil society with particular concern for Northern Ireland.

During its first year of operation total Reconciliation Programme expenditure amounted to £402,379 of which £100,450 was allocated to Northern Ireland projects. This was the largest Trust and Fund programme commitment for the year 1994/1995 with forty-five recipients. Total spending on justice and peace grants remained relatively stable with spending rising modestly to £421,700 in 1998/1999 dispersed to forty-seven grantees. By its last year as an independent category the Justice and Peace Programme remained the largest programme with £726,450 distributed to only twenty-eight organisations and individuals. Major grant recipients in this category include the Committee on the Administration of Justice (Northern Ireland), the George Bell Institute and the Fermanagh Trust. The Justice and Peace Programme operated small budgets in Omagh and Armagh, Northern Ireland for local justice and reconciliation projects. The Fermanagh Trust remained a key partner and channel for the evaluation of community projects in County Fermanagh.

Justice and Peace grant files first appear in 1993/1994 with the preponderance of grants administered by Eric Adams and Dipali Chandra. Some of Adams' files retain the old informal file reference code for Northern Ireland '21' and a number of files created after the introduction of the Programme continue to use the old '2' reference for peace and international relations grants. However, the preponderance of these grant files contain no file references and simply bear the name of the grantee. Copy minutes from the Reconciliation/Justice and Peace Programme may appear in grant files in addition to relevant Trust or Fund minutes.

In 2003/2004 the justice and peace category was deleted as part of a further reorganisation of grant categories. Most grants made under this heading, together with those of the Asylum, Immigration and Resettlement Programme, were transferred to the new Global Exchange Programme.