John Hume and David Trimble: A Vision of Peace

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🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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These two remarkable men, from opposite sides of the 30-year "Troubles" in Northern Ireland, bravely reached across the divide and waged peace. They were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998. John Hume, who died in August, 2020, was a Catholic civil rights and political leader. In a poll several years ago, he was voted the greatest person in Irish history. David Trimble was the leader of the Protestant pro-British Ulster Unionist Party. They talk here about the underpinnings of the brutal fighting that tore Northern Ireland apart, and they explain how and why they were able to negotiate a peace deal and begin the healing. They offer some important lessons to the rest of the world. (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2020

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0:00.0	When people are divided, victories are not solutions, the only solution is agreement.
0:07.0	Good evening, a historic day at Stormant, after two years of talks and after a generation of bloodshed and decades of division.
0:16.0	After 30 brutal years of violence in Northern Ireland, two men from opposing sides had the guts to talk and talk and talk some more.
0:27.6	They brought others into their talks and finally on Good Friday in 1998, a deal was signed, bringing a promise of peace, an end to the seemingly
0:38.8	endless cycle of attack and retaliation between the Protestants loyal to Britain and the Catholics who favored
0:47.1	unity with the rest of Ireland. The two men I'm talking about here were John Hume and David Trimble.
0:54.5	They were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts later that same year.
0:59.7	Well as you may have read, Mr Hume died earlier this month on August 3rd, 2020.
1:07.0	Since there are interviews with both John Hume and David Trimble in the Academy of Achievement's
1:12.4	remarkable archive.
1:14.3	We want to revisit their story today, a story of hope against the odds, a story of what can
1:20.3	be accomplished by rather understated people who have a bedrock belief in justice
1:26.6	and peace.
1:27.8	This is what it takes.
1:29.0	I'm Alice Winkler.
1:30.0	Had a name, this child. This child is gifted and I heard that enough that I started to believe it.
1:39.0	If you have the opportunity, not a perfect opportunity, and you don't take it, you may never have another
1:44.7	chance.
1:45.7	It all was so clear.
1:46.7	It was just like the picture started to form itself.
1:50.0	There was no way in which a lie could prevail over the truth, darkness over light, death over life.
1:57.0	Every day I wake up and decide. Today I'm going to love my life.
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