Helen Henderson is the Managing Director of St Columb’s Park House, a Peace and Reconciliation centre based in Derry/Londonderry in Northern Ireland. In this role she oversees the running of a conference and residential centre along with the development of core peace programmes in the community. She has spent most of her working life in the community and voluntary sector and worked for many years with Children in Crossfire delivering their development /global education programme with teachers/youth workers and young people. She completed a masters in ‘Education for Contemporary Society’ and is passionate about ordinary people making extraordinary differences. St Columb’s Park House are keen to explore new ideas and holistic methodologies that further develop peace building work on the island connecting it to social justice, and ensuring it is relevant to the daily lives of people living in the margins of our society.