{"id":10,"date":"2016-09-07T10:48:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T09:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2018-07-16T15:45:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T14:45:37","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pretani Associates Ltd is based in Northern Ireland and the directors are Helen Brooker and Dr Ian Adamson OBE<\/a>. Their work focuses on building stability for societies by explaining, promoting and remembering Common Identity.<\/p>\n

Both directors are originally from a health professional background but have spent many years working within the community on inter-community projects such as The Somme Association and Belmont Tower in a voluntary capacity.<\/p>\n

Time spent working on their respective projects and on others together highlighted the feeling of isolation felt by many communities and the fear that division and tensions were not only persisting, but were growing, despite the signing of the Belfast Agreement in 1998. For many people there is still a poor quality of life as they continue to suffer from pain created by recent conflict.<\/p>\n

Problems such as \u2018failure to thrive\u2019 both on a personal and societal level have become hidden. Coping with the loss of loved ones, possibly coupled with the difficulty of living with injuries. These problems can lead to increased suicide at worst, and at best, not feeling any real peace dividend.<\/p>\n

The perception persists that it is key areas within Northern Ireland that are causing these on-going problems. However, is this perception simply masking the extent of the problem and the cause of the divisions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pretani Associates Ltd is based in Northern Ireland and the directors are Helen Brooker and Dr Ian Adamson OBE<\/a> . Their work focuses on building stability for societies by explaining, promoting and remembering Common Identity. Both directors are originally from a health professional background but have spent many years working within the community on inter-community projects such as The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"about-us.php","meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}