Publications
Afri Strategic Plan 2018-2025
2024
Afri’s Strategic Plan, setting out our vision, work themes and including a brief history of Afri.
Authors:
Afri’s Board of Directors
Freedom to Choose? Report on the Consultative Forum on International Security Policy
2023
The controversial ‘Consultative Forum on International Security’ of June 2023 was set up by the Minister for Foreign Affairs – but to what end? This detailed report, prepared by a working group of StoP (Swords to Ploughshares) looks at the 4 days of the Forum in detail. Included is a preamble, setting the scene, and a substantial set of conclusions which can be drawn from the current situation regarding neutrality and security and what the Forum did and did not consider.
Authors:
StoP (Swords to Ploughshares)
Message to Government: End Direct Provision and Tackle the International Protection System
2022
Afri’s aim with this publication is to echo and amplify the demands for what comes after Direct Provision from those who have experienced DP themselves, and to ensure that the DP system is not maintained under another name. The report is based on the testimonies from ten interviewees, to whom we are grateful for sharing their experiences.
Editorial Team:
Sian Cowman, Orlaith Mac Eoin Manus, Bulelani Mfaco, Donal O’Kelly, Donnah Sibanda Vuma, Andy Storey
Interviewer:
Orlaith Mac Eoin Manus
Afri Strategic Plan 2018-2023
2018
Afri’s Strategic Plan, setting out our vision, work themes and including a brief history of Afri.
Authors:
Afri’s Board of Directors
They All Had Names: A Survey of Tithe na mBocht and Famine Graveyards in Ireland
2013
This is an updated version of the 2010 Afri Report on Famine Graveyards and details the locations of workhouses and famine graveyards throughout the island of Ireland.
Authors:
Sean Steele (ed.)
Genetic Modification Busting the Myths
2012
With Teagasc’s application to grow genetically modified potatoes in Ireland and the EPA’s granting them a licence to do so, there has been an accompanying outbreak of modified myths being trialled on the Irish population. This leaflet seeks to address some of the most dominant and pervasive of these myths in order to support resilience and resistance to this deliberate adn potentially lethal contamination of information being supplied to the Irish population.
Authors:
Rose Kelly
Ireland, Irish Finance and the Nuclear Weapons Industry
2012
This document is written by Irish CND chairperson, Dr David Hutchinson Edgar, and finds that the National Pensions Reserve Fund, according to its most recent annual report, has investments worth around €10 million in companies involved in the nuclear weapons industry. It also discloses that AIB, in majority state ownership, was involved in giving a loan of €28 million to a major American company heavily involved in the maintenance of US nuclear weapons.
Authors:
Dr David Hutchinson Edgar
DU
2011
This booklet will focus on weapons and war: specifically depleted uranium weapons. Even though decision-makers strive to downplay the health and environmental risks that are posed by these weapons, we aim to show the reality of their harmful nature and the damage that they cause.
Authors:
Hilary Bizumuremyi, edited by Niall Carroll, foreword by Denis J. Halliday
Seeds of Hope in a world of insecurity
2010
This short brochure is dealing with issues of food insecurity and loss of biodiversity
Authors:
Clare O’Grady Walsh
Afri Report on Famine Graveyards
2010
“Over one and quarter million died in Ireland [during the Great Famine]..So where are they all buried/” Don Mullan, 1994
Authors:
Sean Steele (ed.)
The Great Gas Giveaway: How the elites have gambled with our health and wealth
2009
Authors:
Andy Storey & Michael McCaughan
The Corrib Gas Dispute: Background and Current Status
2009
Authors:
Andy Storey
The Lisbon Treaty, the European Military Project, and Europe`s Role in the World: Implications for Irish Voters
2008
On the 12th of June this year, the Irish people will be asked to vote on the Lisbon Treaty. Just before that, at the end of May, the Irish government will host a major diplomatic conference, the aim of which is to negotiate a treaty to ban the manufacture, use or stockpiling of cluster munitions.
Authors:
Andy Storey
The Price of Our Souls: Gas Shell and Ireland
2007
Deals with the controversial Corrib Gas Project in North Mayo, where Shell is building a gas refinery and high pressure pipeline in a landscape of extraordinary natural beauty.
Authors:
Michael McCaughan
A Decade of Betrayal and the Challenge of Renewal
2007
This research paper looks at the record of recent governments in the area of Ireland’s foreign and defence policy
Authors:
Mark Doris
Death From A Distance: the Ongoing Militarisation of Ireland
2003
This report by Afri is in two parts. The first part takes a look at some of our Third Level educational institutions and their involvement in research related to the arms trade. This is a largely hidden dimension of our educational activity. The second part looks at the militarization of Shannon airport, which has occurred in the wake of the attacks on the US in 2001, particularly as the US and Britain prepared for war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Authors:
John Cullen, Susan Ní Maolthuile
International intervention and conflict in Macedonia
2003
The report is divided into three main sections. Chapters 1 and 2 will give a brief background to Macedonia since independence including the main political developments and a brief outline of the demographic situation. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 deals with the conflict itself examining both internal and external causes, highlighting the main developments in the conflict, and looking at the attitudes and actions of international actors as the conflict unfolded. Finally, chapter 6 looks at the response of the IC, and in particular the EU, to the events of 2001 and examines whether international intervention has improved the prospects for sustainable peace in Macedonia.
Authors:
Marianne Osborn
Editor:
Dr. Andy Storey
Defending Peace: Ireland’s role in a changing Europe
2002
Defending Peace: Ireland’s Role in a Changing Europe traces how the EU, under the influence of NATO, has evolved a disturbingly militaristic “common defence policy”, and how successive Irish governments have misled us into involvement in it. It shows that this policy is hugely at odds with the values allegedly underlying Irish foreign policy, particularly peace building under UN authority, and with those of the Peace Process. Far from failing, the UN has been prevented from fulfilling its mandate by the large industrial and military states, and a UN reclaimed by global civil society is the only practical alternative to NATO’s lawless aggression.
Authors:
John Maguire
Inequality Violence and Resource Wars
2002
This is the text of Andy Storey’s speech (Development Studies Centre, Kimmage Manor, and Afri) at the Community Workers Conference: Wealth, Power, Inequality: Challenges for community Work in a New Era, Kilkenny, 10th December 2001
Authors:
Dr. Andy Storey
What Price Peace? The Irish Peace Process and the International Arms Trade
2000
In the wake of the Good Friday Agreement (1998), and indeed prior to that, there has been much talk of a so-called “peace dividend” for the North of Ireland and for the border region. Indeed, even before the formal end to hostilities it was clear from the interest shown by North American business capital that Ireland’s “peace dividend” would entail increased inward investment from high-technology companies. This report was born out of those concerns and its aim is primarily to investigate whether such concerns are justified. However, any new military-related investment must be viewed in the context of an already well-established military industrial base, namely that of Shorts. Therefore, in order to address the overall issue of military-related production in Northern Ireland a detailed look at shorts’ military activities is included in this report.
Authors:
Seán O Cuilin.
Editors:
Annette Honan, Joe Murray, Dr. Andy Storey. Preface by Dr Robbie McVeigh
LINKS – Ireland’s Links with the Arms Trade and Military Industry
1996
This report, Ireland’s links with the Arms Trade and Military Industry, is presented in two parts. Part 1 focuses on Ireland and the arms trade. Terms of reference are set out by showing the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) criteria and the UK licensing legislation which illustrate how inclusive the “arms trade” is. Part 2 moves from the supply-side to the impact that the arms trade has on the majority world. We take two cases studies of countries that have been on the receiving end of the arms trade.
Authors:
John Cullen
Editors:
John Cullen and Joe Murray
Editorial overview: Bridget Anne Ryan
Design and Layout:
Pat Pidgeon
Famine is a lie
1995
The first events to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Ireland’s Great Famine were organised by Afri in 1988. Since then a wide range of activities and initiatives have followed. This book is a gathering together of some of the events that have taken place as part of Afri’s Great Famine Project. It includes excerpts of talks given at some of our famine walks, conferences and seminars as well as quotations from historians and writers on contemporary justice issues. It is intended to form a basis for dialogue, discussion and debate.
Authors:
Joe Murray, Pat Pidgeon
Editorial team:
Joe Murray, Pat Pidgeon, Dereck Speirs, Danny Cusack.
Design and Layout:
Pat Pidgeon
Just a second – Campaign
1995
Afri’s “Just a Second!” campaign, as outlined in this book, has two purposes: 1- to fund small poverty projects in the developing world and in Ireland, and 2- to show how resources could be used for life-giving rather than death-dealing purposes.
Authors:
Don Mullan, Joe Murray
Preface:
Archbishop Desmond Tutu