evidence: In December 2015, the BBC published an article stating that there has been a rise in the number of residents who want peace walls in Northern Ireland to remain standing. This is based on a study on the public attitudes to the peace walls carried out by Ulster University, in the context of the Northern Ireland Executive’s ‘Together: Building a United Community’ (TBUC) strategy, published in May 2013, which included a target of removing all peace walls by 2023. The strategy states, "Taking down interface barriers is not something that can be achieved without engagement, consent and support with the people who live there." [...] In the specific context of peace walls, a 2015 study found that 30% of those surveyed wanted the walls to remain, while 49% wanted them taken down. 57% of research participants identifying as Catholic want the "peace wall" taken down either now or in the future. Only 34% of research participants identifying as Protestants feel the same. [...] There has also been an increase in the proportion of respondents saying that they want things left the way they are now (from 22% in 2012 to 30% in 2015) and a decrease in the proportion saying they would like the Peace Wall to come down some time in the future (from 44% in 2012 to 35% in 2015).