We need human security: food, education, health care for our children.

We have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.

Once we link up and network, there will be new institutions, new beginnings, and a change in the economy because capitalism is destroying many people's lives. It's just one leap to think in a different way.

I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new and imaginative structures which are nonviolent and life-giving for all.

That will be my focus: building a culture that moves away from militarism.

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.

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