The John and Pat Hume Foundation

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Official Twitter account for the John and Pat Hume Foundation.

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"It was a privilege to help lead the organisation through seismic change."

Judith Gillespie, former Deputy Chief Constable of the PSNI, "A Privilege to Help Lead"

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#PolicingThePeace

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"The publication of the Patten Report & the actual formation of the PSNI 25 years ago were momentous & truly historic occasions but what I sharply remember is reporting some of the town hall-type meetings that the Patten commission held to assess public mood about police reform"

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"We are no longer that simple green and orange binary. We are a region of minorities."

Read Dympna McGlade’s essay "From Ziggy Stardust to the District Policing Partnership" as part of the #PolicingThePeace series:

policingthepeace.com/dympna-mcglade…

Photo of Dympna McGlade on a chair in a living room.

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Our annual Human Rights Lecture returns 🗓️

📍 @UlsterUni, Belfast
📅 Monday 7 December 2026

We’re honoured to welcome Mary Lawlor, former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, in partnership w/ @INCOREinfo for #NIHRFestival

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Nearly 30 years after the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, and over 50 years since the Troubles began, the past still shapes our lives.

Segregation, paramilitary control, racism, sectarianism and legacy issues have been sidelined, and they keep coming back to haunt us. 🧵