Jo Berry

Joanna Cynthia Berry (born 1957) is a British peace activist and public speaker.

She is the daughter of Anthony Berry, who was killed by the IRA in the Brighton hotel bombing on 12 October 1984.

The bomb was planted by Patrick Magee, whom Berry publicly met in November 2000 in an effort at achieving reconciliation as envisioned in the wake of the Good Friday Agreement.

[3] On Monday 21 March 2011, Berry spoke at the Peace One Day conference in London and on Wednesday 12 May 2011, she spoke on a panel with Patrick Magee, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Mary Kayitesi Blewitt, who lost over 50 members of her family in the Rwandan genocide.

Berry is an established speaker, and has appeared together with Magee on over 300 occasions, most recently in Rwanda, Lebanon and Israel and Palestine as well as locally in Belfast.