From October 2nd to October 5th Caoili, who works for the Bloody Sunday Trust on the Conflict & Legacy Interpretive Network, attended the One Young World Summit 2023 in Belfast on a National Lottery Heritage Fund Scholarship. The One Young World Summit was host to 2,000 delegates, from over 250 organisations, with the organisers saying more than 190 countries represented. They came together over the course of the week to discuss key global issues and how best our young leaders can tackle them and accelerate social impact. The key themes of this year’s summit were environmentalism, food security, education, and peace and reconciliation, with key contributions from Queen Rania of Jordan, former President Mary Robinson, and Professor Muhammad Yunus.
During the week Caoili participated in several action sessions and workshops relating to conflict transformation and peace agreements, fighting for indigenous land rights and heritage, tackling gendered violence, creating sustainable housing solutions for displaced communities, measures in anti-corruption and human rights protections, and creating sustainable peace while countering violent extremism. She also attended talks by influential political, academic, and humanitarian leaders that discussed youth post-conflict resilience, creation of an intersectional community in post-conflict society, highlighted ways to support climate refugees, empowering indigenous communities and traditions, and encouraging the next generation as we move forward.
While at the summit Caoili was also able to highlight her work with the Conflict and Legacy Interpretive Network, a cross-community all-island network of heritage organisations whose work pertains to the conflict in and around the North. The Conflict and Legacy Interpretive Network was proposed by and is managed by the Bloody Sunday Trust/Museum of Free Derry, Healing Through Remembering, and National Museums NI. During workshops and at networking sessions throughout the week – particularly of the final day addressing the theme of ‘peace and reconciliation’ – she took the opportunity to discuss the successes of the Network in community relations, and all of the valued work of Network members towards conflict transformation and achieving a lasting peace in the North.
