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Piece Description
Walls continue division. They shun neighbors. They block communication. The defining moment that signaled the end of the cold war was when the Berlin wall came down. When a wall comes down, there is hope. Neighbors can see each others' eyes. They can hear each other. Compassion wells up when one neighbor sees the other has children just like hers. Understanding ensues when one hears the other suffer over a death in the family, just as he has. It's been said by poets and politicians alike: What if we could one day live in a world with no walls? Diane Richard visited a place where walls are deeply ingrained in the history.
Broadcast History
Aired on PRI's "The Savvy Traveler" in December 2001.
Transcript
Say the word Belfast, and images come instantly to mind: pictures of weapons, men in black hoods, hunger strikers, terror.
Belfast is eager to put those images behind it, and it may be on the cusp of just that. Because today the people of Northern Ireland have peace in their sights. Within days of September 11th, a faction of the Irish Republican Army -- or IRA -- agreed to decommission its arms. The move was the only bright spot in the otherwise dark world news, and the first promising sign since the 1994 ceasefire of an end to the sectarian war -- a war of terrorism pitting Catholic against Protestant, Republican against Loyalist, neighbor against neighbor.
In a world suddenly rocked by terrorism, Belfast offers its own hard-won lessons to travelers willing to listen and look. Diane Richard reports.
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I'm in Belfast's majestic Crown Bar, sipping down a pint...
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Timing and Cues
HOST INTRO: Walls continue division. They shun neighbors. They block communication. The defining moment that signaled the end of the cold war was when the Berlin wall came down. When a wall comes down, there is hope. Neighbors can see each others' eyes. They can hear each other. Compassion wells up when one neighbor sees the other has children just like hers. Understanding ensues when one hears the other suffer over a death in the family, just as he has. It's been said by poets and politicians alike: What if we could one day live in a world with no walls?
Reporter Diane Richard has just come home from a part of the world where walls are deeply ingrained in the history.
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