evidence: In the ’70s, the British government began to build separation barriers known as "peace walls" around Northern Ireland to separate Catholic and Protestant areas in an attempt to control sectarian violence. [...] In 2013, Northern Ireland’s government set up an initiative to remove all of them by 2023, but approximately 116 barriers remain "as visible symbols of community segregation and division," reported the International Fund for Ireland, an organization that encourages contact and dialogue between nationalists and unionists. [...] But for Brennan, Forsyth, Thompson and many others living near peace walls in Belfast and around Northern Ireland, it seems they are going to be a source of security for the foreseeable future.