Ruth Scott
Ruth Scott works as a priest, writer and broadcaster. She is the author of Casting Off: Finding Faith for Change and Slipstreams for Healing Souls (SPCK) and has written for magazines and newspapers including the ‘Guardian’ and ‘The Tablet’. For 10 years she has been a regular presenter of ‘Pause for Thought’ on Radio 2’s morning show, ‘Wake up to Wogan’ and ‘Prayer for the Day’ on Radio 4. Ruth lectures and works in the field of interfaith relations, particularly with members of the Jewish and Muslim community, and runs workshops on conflict transformation.
Books by Ruth Scott
Give a Boy A Gun: One Man’s Journey from Killing to Peace-Keeping
By Alistair Little with Ruth Scott
What turns a boy brought up in a stable loving family into a terrorist, and then transforms his violence into a deep desire for reconciliation?
This book tells the extraordinary and moving story of Alistair Little, one-time member of the UVF, regarded by many as the most ruthless of the paramilitary organisations operating during ‘The Troubles’ in Northern Ireland. Sentenced for murder at the age of seventeen to remain in the Maze prison at the Secretary of State’s pleasure, Alistair began the slow and painful process that turned him away from terrorism to work internationally with victims and perpetrators in the field of conflict transformation and restorative justice.
Part of Alistair’s story has been dramatised by BBC with Liam Neeson playing the role of Alistair and James Nesbitt the part of his victim’s brother (to be broadcast spring 09).
March 2009, Darton Longman Todd