Better Peace Podcast Series

Thanks to support from the International Fund for Ireland's 'Our Peace, Our Future' programme and our National Lottery Community Fund 'Empowering Young People' grant, we have been able to support a group of young people from Belfast, Portadown and Donegal to create a high-quality podcast series together. Working with journalist Jude Mitchell and our team, they are learning all aspects of production and marketing, they will decide who they want to interview, and will be able to travel to capture the content they need.

'Building a Better Peace' is the vision of Politics in Action. We know that we have much to be grateful for in terms of the achievements of the Good Friday Agreement, but we also see faltering politics and ongoing sectarian divisions across our society. We need to recommit to many of the ideas in the Agreement but we also need to develop new ways of making our society more inclusive, successful and prosperous so it can be the 'Beacon of Hope' that so many other places in the world need.

The group visited Edinburgh and Cardiff to look at the impact of votes at 16 there interviewing young people and local experts on the impact of 10 years of Votes at 16 in Scotland and 4 years in Wales. Other episodes have looked at the climate crisis, diversity, the Mica Crisis in Donegal, mental health and even a chat with young people in Cape Town, South Africa about the peace processes here and there. You can download the podcast here or wherever you get your podcasts!