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| Board Members |
The Board is presently recruiting a Chair person based in Ireland along with an American Co-Chair. The Boards membership will be majority based in the island of Ireland, and will draw from leadership in both the North of Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. As the CDYC expands to other countries, Board membership will expand to reflect new constituencies.
Niall Mac Allister M.D., ABA, FACA President and Founder.
Dr Mac Allister is the source of the original concept and vision for
the project, and a native of Ireland. He has had and internationally recognized career in the field of medicine.
Friendships Without Borders, Inc.
www.fwbinc.org
Background Summary 2005
Niall P. Mac Allister MD, President and Founder
In the 50's Ireland was a family, dysfunctional, divided. Today, Ireland is slowly reconciling to an all island one country family - in reconciliation now the richest country in Europe second only to Luxembourg. In the United States during these years pursuing a career in acute health care, Dr. Mac Allister won some National and International awards, also a United States patent in patient revival equipment. Dr. Mac Allister was Professor at New York University in Buffalo and at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia - later, Director of Surgical Intensive Care at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland.
In 1997, in an era of over fifty ongoing areas of regional conflict and threatening more, Dr. Mac Allister founded Friendships Without Borders Inc, (FWB), a social affirmative action program from the United States to Ireland. Sean Byrne, Vice President of FWB, is Director of the Mauro Peace and Justice Centre in Canada. FWB promotes shared goals for socio-economic revival of communities through community development and conciliation. Mechanisms include establishment of the Community Development Youth Corps, (CDYC), the Voluntary Senior Corps, (SC), and the Community Health Care Team (CHCT), with involvement of Academic Institutions, Pharmaceutical companies and the 'Community Voice' and its political expression.
Through shared resources of Friendships Without Borders for the communities, Baltimore to Ireland, north to south, a planned revival of the seafood harvest was given the support of the marine biotechnology departments of University of Maryland, Dublin City University, the University of Ulster, Coleraine, and the Martin Ryan Institute in Galway. The seafood harvest has been decimated in recent years through industrial waste and nuclear contamination, from the Irish Sea to the Chesapeake Bay.
In the past six months FWB has been promoting the CDYC, to increase opportunities for the younger community to address the rising suicides among adolescents, from the United States to Ireland north to south. Through meetings attended from Dublin to Belfast, ideas have been shared.
Niall P. Mac Allister, MD
December 25, 2005
33 Craignagore, 26 King St.
Newcastle, Co Down, N Ireland
44 (0) 28 437 27304
44 (0) 28 437 27304
niallpmac@aol.com
Sean Byrne, PhD. Vice President, FWB. Director, Mauro Peace and Justice Center, Winnipeg, Alberta, Canada. Expert on youth, cross cultural, international, and community conflict resolution, and a native of Ireland.
Fred Bemak, PhD. Professor, George Mason University, Virginia. International expert on education, mental health and community development.
Michael Creedon, Secretary, FWB, D.S.W. Coordinator of the Odyssey Certificate in Aging Studies Program, School of Continuing Studies, The Johns Hopkins University,. Visiting Professor of Gerontology and Social Work, University College Cork,. Expert on retirement and senior roles in family and communty, and a native of Ireland.
Ronan Gaynor
Mary Boergers - Director, Leadership Program, School of Public Affairs, Washington, DC, USA - served in Maryland State Senate, 1991-95.
| Honorary Board Members |
Louis Dunbar - Board Member, Ulster People's College
John Robb - Former Irish Senator - President of New Ireland Group
George Crosbie - Owner, Cork Examiner newspaper
Bob Rowthorn - Professor of Economics, Cambridge University, UK - author of «Northern Ireland - the Political Economy of Conflict»
Amartya Sen - Winner Nobel Prize, Economics 1998 - Lamont Univ. Prof. Emeritus
| Consultants |
Prof. Michael Guiry, Director, Martin Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway
Tony Johnston - Senior Lecturer - Faculty of Business And Management - School of Public Policy, Economics and Law
Colette Henry - Director, Dundalk Institute of Technology
Jack O'Herlihy - Head of Development - Letterkenny Institute of Technology
Web Site: http://www.lyit.ie
Eileen Murphy - Head of Section of Applied Cultural Sciences, Dundalk Institute of Technology
Michael Smyth - Faculty, Ulster University - School of Public Policy, Economics and Law
Howard Spivak - Boston - Chairman, Committee on Violence, American Academy of Pediatrics
Declan Clarke, Development Manager, Martin Ryan Institute
Tony Andrew, Prof. Marine Biotechnology, University of Ulster
| Supporters |
Allied Irish Bank
John Bruton - former Irish Taoiseach
William Jefferson Clinton - Former President of the United States
Community Law Center - Maryland Ave. - Baltimore, MD
Bairbre DeBrun - Member NI Assembly
Robert Erhlich, Jr. - Congress of the United States
Dermot Ahern T.D. - Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs
Dermott Gallagher - Secretary, Anglo-Irish Division, Dept of Foreign Affairs
Bernadine Healy, M.D. - President and Chief Executive Officer - American Red Cross
Joseph Roche - former President National Society of Ancient Order of Hibernians
Dr. Ramaiah Samalah
Jean Kennedy Smith - former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, 1998
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend - Lt. Gov. Maryland
