Welcome to Building Bridges for Peace
40th anniversary of the Brighton Bomb
40 years after Brighton Bomb – building bridges across the divide. PLEASE SUPPORT AND BE A PART OF AN INSPIRATIONAL year which is focusing on shared humanity and compassion. In these divided times we are spreading kindness and compassion world wide. concentrating on how to change from dehumanising to rehumanising, and how we move from blaming others to having unbounded empathy.
Enhancing our crucial peace building work
This year is the 40th anniversary of the IRA Brighton bombing which led to the formation of Building Bridges for Peace charity. We have been promoting peace and conflict transformation ever since through unbounded empathy and compassion. This work enables communities fractured by war, divisiveness and hate to restore peace, justice and hope for the future. A peaceful planet seems further away than ever. In these polarised times, peacebuilding is particularly crucial.
Promoting peace and conflict resolution throughout the world
Building Bridges for Peace was founded in 2009 by Jo Berry to promote peace and conflict transformation around the world. Jo now works around the world, recently in India and South Korea plus important work in schools around the UK. She is passionate about young people, empowering them to be positive change makers and develop resilience and emotional intelligence. She believes everyone deserves a voice and creates safe places for people to open up and be heard.
From two young people age 16 from a school in Tower Hamlets:
- Jo makes you feel empowered and comfortable. All your problems, ideas and interests are understood by her, and she will help you turn your thoughts into actions to better our society.
- Jo Berry is a gem. She has come to us as a saviour to hear our needs, so desperately needed to be voiced and encouraged us that we can make positive change in society. Her optimism and passion empowered all of us. Her enthusiasm and energy has made us all more confident and passionate.
Jo founded the charity after losing her father Sir Anthony in the Brighton bomb in 1984 and since 2000 she has been working with the ex IRA combatant Patrick Magee who planted the bomb. In the last 22 years they have spoken together over 300 times and Jo draws on this experience in all the work she does. She speaks with Patrick a few times a year and do get in contact if you would like to book them for a talk.
The lessons she has been learning are now part of her work in demonstrating the power of empathy, how we can not choose revenge and blame. Above all she is working for a world where no one is demonised, where everyone has their truth and we find ways to resolve conflict so all win.