Project aims to steer disaffected youth away from paramilitaries
International Fund for Ireland launches 3-year reconciliation strategy in North
The IFI plans include beginning to gradually dismantling the North’s peace walls. Photograph: David Sleator/The Irish Times
Young disaffected people vulnerable to the influence of dissident republican and loyalist paramilitary groups are being targeted by the International Fund for Ireland (IFI) as part of a three-year strategy to promote reconciliation in Northern Ireland.
The IFI today launched its “community transformation” project in west Belfast. It incorporates plans to begin gradually dismantling the North’s peace walls, assisting areas suffering from economic and social deprivation, and completing existing projects aimed at tackling division.