The research team will hold a series of "talkshops" in schools across Northern Ireland, where young people will give their views on community relations and discuss new ways for encouraging anti-sectarianism. These will be followed by joint talkshops, to be attended by young people from Catholic and Protestant communities.
The project, Voices Behind the Statistics, follows similar research carried out by NCB in Derry/Londonderry in 2002, and in Omagh in 2003.
"The young people who took part in previous studies made it clear that working together across communities had had a major impact on their thinking, especially when looking at ways of solving community differences," said Ruth Sinclair, NCB's director of research.
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