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Belfast, A Decade After Peace

From: Youth Radio
Length: 04:01

President Barack Obama's newly appointed Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, is perhaps best-known for his work in Northern Ireland. Youth Radio visited the neighborhood more than a decade after the end of the unrest to check out the aftermath of the peace process for the city's young people. Read the full description.

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Default-piece-image-1 Pendarvis Harshaw reports on young people in Belfast growing up at the heart of the neighborhood where Catholic and Protestant battles raged for decades. They live around the corner from the IRA’s home office and in the only European town divided by a “Peace Wall”. The young people are the neighborhood’s best ambassadors for ‘reconciliation’, but still facing challenges like high unemployment and suicide rates that are the highest in Europe.

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Pendarvis Harshaw reports on young people in Belfast growing up at the heart of the neighborhood where Catholic and Protestant battles raged for decades. They live around the corner from the IRA’s home office and in the only European town divided by a “Peace Wall”. The young people are the neighborhood’s best ambassadors for ‘reconciliation’, but still facing challenges like high unemployment and suicide rates that are the highest in Europe.

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INTRO:

President Obama’s newly appointed Middle East Envoy, George Mitchell, is perhaps best known for his work on another political and religious puzzle -- the Good Friday peace agreement between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland . Youth Radio’s Pendarvis Harshaw visited the neighborhood that was the seat of power for paramilitary groups in Belfast to check out the aftermath of the peace process for the city's young people.

OUTRO:

This piece was produced by Pendarvis Harshaw for Youth Radio.