{"id":53785,"date":"2026-04-06T19:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/?p=53785"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:20:23","slug":"community-borders-and-peace-student-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/2026\/04\/06\/community-borders-and-peace-student-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Community, Borders, and Peace [Student Reflection]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is a guest blog post from our student social media ambassador, Sydney. Currently studying abroad on the semester program, <a href=\"http:\/\/go.augsburg.edu\/northernireland\">\u201cConflict, Peace, and Transition in Northern Ireland.\u201d<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The past couple of months have been filled with so many informative, eye-opening, and amazing experiences. We explored the city of Derry and learned about its history, from its historic walls to the key events of the Troubles that occurred here. We traveled to Belfast and went to the Titanic Museum, talked with people from both sides of the conflict, and examined the peace walls. <!--more-->And last week, we went to the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. There we talked with community members, visited rural towns, and got to experience the beautiful countryside.<\/p>\n<p>We also have been able to immerse ourselves within local community organizations through our internship placements. Each of us have had our own unique experiences at our internships and have been able to see first-hand the important work being done in a variety of areas. It has been such a great time so far and it has been such a privilege to get to know the people of Northern Ireland, as well as one another.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-53786\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/04\/ba8984ef-c498-42cd-aad8-95aad601f19d-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/04\/ba8984ef-c498-42cd-aad8-95aad601f19d-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/04\/ba8984ef-c498-42cd-aad8-95aad601f19d-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/04\/ba8984ef-c498-42cd-aad8-95aad601f19d-1153x1536.jpg 1153w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/04\/ba8984ef-c498-42cd-aad8-95aad601f19d.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a guest blog post from our student social media ambassador, Sydney. Currently studying abroad on the semester program, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":53786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53787,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53785\/revisions\/53787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}