SAVE Northern Ireland
SAVE Northern Ireland – Living with the Perpetrators
There is peace in Northern Ireland, but this peace has to be secured by walls which separate the Catholic and Protestant population. 88 so called peace walls exist in the Belfast area.
The “Troubles” began in the 1960s and continue in a legacy of mutual fear and loathing. Sectarian killings have stopped since the cease fires and the IRA disarmament, but still the barriers are needed to keep that peace.
Even earlier this year a peace line has been erected which runs past one of Belfast few “integrated” elementary schools where Catholic and Protestant students are brought together to study side by side. Only 3 % of Northern Ireland´s kids attend these schools.
The Northern Ireland power sharing process as well as the strategies to explore the difficult aftermath of the violence for the families and communities is an impressive example how to deal with violent extremism in a forward looking manner.
