East Belfast is a town full of dividing lines, mostly between Protestant and Catholic. They're called peace walls, but they look more like the fence around a maximum security prison. Some of them are over fifty feet high: ten feet of brick topped with about 20 more feet of heavy steel, and barbed wire.

Majora walks with Belfast activist Sammy Douglas along a Bryson Street peace wall between Catholic and Protestant neighbors. Douglas is well known in Belfast for his work helping to reconcile the opposing groups in the conflict. He talks with everyone from church groups to members of the Protestant paramilitary organization.

Douglas says that peace walls "help to keep the peace, that’s the ironic thing, they are effective. They are a monstrosity, but a monstrosity that is a neccessity. People on both sides have asked the government to build this wall."

The peace walls make a clear, 50-foot-high division between "us" and "them." The Connswater Greenway project, on the other hand, creates a shared green space for "us," "them," and everyone. Douglas believes the Connswater Greenway project has the potential to be something rare in East Belfast, a place owned by no one, where everyone feels safe.

Douglas tells Majora, "After thirty odd years of violence, we are still a segregated society, don’t get me wrong. People still have memories, hurts, pains. We’re not going to be reconciliated over night."

"But I think the Connswater scheme will help us to open up a shared space, open up a safe space. Some of these Protestant or Catholic communities that have literally no open or green space will see this as an opportunity. And at least it’s a start, though there is still that fear. But, yes, I see it as bringing people together in many ways."