The author provides a personal perspective on the legacy of the Troubles and relevance of the Steel Shutter project, a community-based initiative aimed at promoting peace and reconciliation. Drawing on their experience as a peacemaker and psychotherapist, the author emphasizes the transformative power of human encounter and highlights unique cross-community initiatives, which have brought people from different communities together. The author argues that such initiatives have played an important role in building bridges between divided communities and promoting empathy, understanding, and healing. The author also notes the challenges posed by the language of polarization, dehumanization, and othering in contemporary political discourse, emphasizing the need to protect and promote human encounter in the face of such challenges.

作者对麻烦的遗留问题和钢百叶窗项目的相关性提供了个人观点，钢百叶窗项目是一项旨在促进和平与和解的社区倡议。作者借鉴了作为和平缔造者和心理治疗师的经验，强调了人类相遇的变革力量，并强调了独特的跨社区举措，这些举措将来自不同社区的人们聚集在一起。作者认为，此类举措在搭建分裂社区之间的桥梁以及促进同理心、理解和治愈方面发挥了重要作用。作者还指出了当代政治话语中两极分化、非人化和其他语言所带来的挑战，强调面对这些挑战时需要保护和促进人类的遭遇。