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The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Peter Hain MP, has announced that the Government will fund the development stage of a conflict transformation initiative in loyalist areas.
Mr. Hain said:
The initial stage of the project will last up to six months and the funds - £135,000 to employ project workers - will be administered by Farset Community Enterprises, a well established and respected community organisation based in north-west Belfast. The project has been proposed by the Ulster Political Research Group (UPRG).
The project workers will engage with community representatives and key stakeholders in a number of loyalist areas to identify and develop sustainable mechanisms to help turn those areas away from paramilitarism and criminality.
Mr. Hain continued:
“Trying to transform parts of society that have suffered most from the grip of paramilitaries and criminality is not easy and not without risk.
“There will be those who do not want to change and we will do absolutely everything in our power to drive them out of business.
“But I hope that this project will help point the way for those who do want to change and that will be for the benefit of everyone in Northern Ireland.”
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