Mr Colin Parry, whose son Tim was killed during the IRA's bombing campaign in Warrington in 1993, has said he is giving up his career to campaign full-time for peace in Northern Ireland.
Speaking on ITN's Evening News last night, Mr Parry said he would spend the next two years raising funds for an u1m exchange centre in Warrington for British and Irish students.
He will leave his job as a personnel manager next week to work on the project which he said would "make my son's life and his death part of something important. It would have been easy if I had been a different man to grieve quietly and adopt no particular position."