As a group of young people from Ardoyne and the Shankill prepare to head to South Africa for the third year of the Belfast to Blanco project – two of them share their hopes with us… The B2B experience gives teenagers, who are part of...
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Belfast’s Interface Diaries
They stared wide-eyed into a computer screen – facing ‘the other community’ for the first time – asking questions they’d never uttered before – hearing answers that would change their lives. Interface Diaries is a project which brings groups of teenagers from across divides in...
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Into ‘Enemy’ Territory…
If there had been no intervention they probably would have remained as faceless enemies their entire lives. One came from the Falls, the other from the Shankill. Both had lost brothers in the Troubles. Both had witnessed so much harsh history. But Sean and...
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When Faceless Enemies Become Friends
For almost forty days now his feet have stood on ‘divided’ ground, his eyes have peered upon the comings and goings of two separate communities, and yet it seems that the longer he watches the more those divides seem to melt away. Gripping a stark...