Alistair Little

Alistair is the fieldworker responsible for the Survivors element of the Sustainable Positive Relations programme. A former loyalist political prisoner, from a Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) background. he was imprisoned at the age of 17 and served thirteen and a half years in prison. Upon his release he qualified as a councillor and has since become an experienced reconciliation worker in Northern Ireland, Ireland, the Balkans, the Middle East, and South Africa. For the last 10 years a key focus of his work has been the facilitation of in depth sharing of personal histories/storytelling between diverse participants, a process that is now run under the title of “Journey through Conflict”. He is the co-founder of the wilderness-based peace work that led to the Sustainable Peace Network (SPN) and he is a co-facilitator on a wide range of SPN events. Since May 2009 he is a Sustainable Relations Fieldworker within the Irish Peace Centres Consortium. He has participated in many local and international radio and TV programs, most recently “Moving beyond hatred” for NHK, Japan. Part of his journey from political violence to reconciliation worker is the subject of an award winning BBC film “Five Minutes in Heaven” screened internationally since January 2009. His autobiography “Give a Boy a Gun: From Killing to Peacebuilding” (London: Darton, Longman & Todd) has been published in early 2009.