Below
is a selection of open-ended responses that relate to the question:
'Have you ever attended
any cross-community project (that is projects with young people from
different religious communities)?'
Again I think there should be more events
for people with mixed religion to come together, so that they learn
it doesn't matter about religion because everybody is the same.
I believe community relations will improve
in Northern Ireland when people stop passing on their prejudices to
their children. I volunteer in mixed religion summer schemes in Belfast
and there is a vast difference to how the younger children interact
with each other and how the older children interact.
I feel that there should be more cross-community
projects for children, so people can learn about each other's religious
views and learn to accept them.
I think cross community projects need
to take place more regularly in all schools. Children need to be encouraged
and educated about other religious groups and friendships with the
other groups.
I think the government should increase
cross-community relations at an earlier age, after all the children
of today are the adults of tomorrow. We carry the opinions we receive
at a young age into our teenage and adult years.
If community halls were used for the
right purpose relations would improve significantly. But currently
both sides are keeping themselves to themselves.
There should be more projects to bring
Protestants and Catholics together to help them live in peace. There
should be more cross -community centres and places where young people
could come from each side and have fun with each other and break down
barriers.
There should be more safer places where
friends of mixed communities can mix up.
Cross-community projects and integrated
schools do help.
