Transcript of an interview with David Stitt, former UDA prisoner, by the Civic Voices Students for Civic Voices Memory Bank on 26 February 2010. Stitt discusses the impact of the Troubles on his involvement in the UDA and the significance of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement to his subsequent engagement in community outreach. Civic Voices is an international education project which seeks to highlight the significance of political and community activism to the development of peace and democracy around the world. The Memory Bank is an archive of personal testimony of those engaged in such political and community activism.
Date of Release/Broadcast: 26 February 2010
Name of First Interviewee: David Stitt
Role at time of Interview: Outreach officer for Charter NA
Interviewer: Civic Voices students
Purpose: Research
Media: Audiovisual, Transcript
Copyright: © Civic Voices 2011
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Programme/Book/Article: Civic Voices International Democracy Memory Bank
Time Period covered: 1971
Key Individuals: David Stitt, Ray Smallwoods
Key Words: Family, Provisional IRA, UDA, paramilitary, prison, religion, Belfast Agreement, Good Friday Agreement, ceasefire, Combined Loyalist Military Command, ex-combatant, Charter NA, Sinn Fein, DUP, UUP, election, education