To enable consensus politics to develop we need to empower people where they live. This means devolving financial resources and political power down to the community level. One of the greatest blocks to movement is fear. This fear can only be removed when people feel their voices are being heard by government and when they have a say in their own lives and communities.

I was born into a Catholic family. I grew up in West Belfast. Faith was very important to us eight children and my mother and father. It was grounded in the Christian tradition of social involvement.

It's okay to be scared, but fear is different. Fear is when we let being scared prevent us from doing what love requires of us.

We are all invited to work together for peace. We shall join hands and minds to work for peace through active nonviolence. We shall help one another, encourage one another and learn from one another how to bring peace to our children and to all.

One great hope lies in the fact that there is a new consciousness in our World, particularly among young people.

I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

People have the right to come and choose their own political solutions.