Face to faith: Christian peacemakers must play a major role in healing Northern Ireland's pain | Comment is free | The Guardian.
If the peace process is to develop and withstand the threats posed by the recent murders, there has to be a cultivating of new attitudes and new ways of living that build community; ways which help to dismantle the sectarian systems, reinterpret binding memories and traditions that can hold many people fearful and territorial. A way that heals the wounds of the past and the feelings of threat, betrayal and injustice.
It's going to take ongoing imagination to build a future for Northern Ireland that moves it from cumbersome, external, legislative reforms to a radical transformation in attitude and actions. Without such, its citizens will have to live with the compromise of a shared-out future rather than a truly shared future. Compromises reached on superficial, external and purely pragmatic measures don't lead to any real or lasting commitment to cohabitation and community.
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