Building Peace from Chaos—Around the World with Dr. Mari Fitzduff - Episode 26

Realize there's some reasons you don't need to live a pretty full life. So I think it was a very good experience. After we promised ourselves that we would always be ready to put our rucksacks on our back, that we wouldn't get tied down to work that we didn't believe in, and that we tried to, as it were, inculcate this into our children as well. So it was a great learning experience for both the work that followed. I think that social change has always been a commitment of both of us, but mine particularly was born out of the revolution in 1968, 69 in our university. And I can actually remember the marches we went on, the sort of protests we took up. But I can also remember one particular point that was really seminal for me, was walking along the streets of Dublin as part of a march. Was it Vietnam? I can't remember what the cause was. And I watched all the people beside looking at us and wondering what on earth we were doing. And the question came to me, is this changing anyone's mind?