Debbie Watters

Debbie Watters is co-director of restorative justice project NI Alternatives and is a former vice chair of the Northern Ireland Policing Board. In this conversation Debbie takes us back to her childhood to share how her faith has always helped her defy labels and challenge the status quo. Here she talks candidly about a passion that drives her to move beyond her own perspectives and the struggles that this can throw up. Debbie speaks passionately about the hurts and hopes she sees within loyalist communities. She has a challenging message about how we need to be prepared to own the sectarianism she believes is part of all of us. She also pleads for issues of discrimination and poverty to be urgently addressed; advocating that this offers us a path to greater peace.