The Protestant clergyman who witnessed the recent decommissioning of IRA weapons has said increased efforts were needed to change the minds of terrorists intent on violence.
The former Methodist Church president, the Rev Harold Good, insisted decommissioning the hearts and minds of people driven to take up arms should be the next step in the peace process.
Rev Good and Catholic priest Father Alec Reid witnessed IRA weapons being put beyond use and on Monday the pair said there was no doubt all arms had been dumped.
Senior unionist politicians questioned the churchmen's integrity and queried how they could be so sure all the guns, explosives and ammunition had been decommissioned.
But Rev Good told BBC Radio said he did not believe for a moment that he had been fooled by the IRA, and that the terror group had kept some arms.
"You can always be taken for a walk, the wisest people in this world can be misled," he said.
"Those are the risks you take and you have to follow your instinct and you have to follow the prompting, what we might say in the spiritual world the prompting of the spirit, and I have never felt as right about anything as I have felt about this.
"I have no reason to doubt, we certainly can't doubt what we saw, not at all, what we saw was beyond doubt."
The Rev Good said decommissioning the hearts and minds of terrorists determined to pursue violence was more important than the dumping of arms.
"What's most important here is actually not the decommissioning of weapons, decommissioning of weapons is a relatively straight forward exercise, it's the decommissioning of the intent, that's what matters," he said.
"As someone said to me 'guns don't fire themselves' and what I think is most important is the fact that as far as I can see the intention, and I have no reason to doubt this, that the intention has been decommissioned and we need to decommission a lot more in our community in terms of the decommissioning of the minds and the hearts."
Rev Good said he was not hurt by comments aimed at him from the DUP questioning his integrity and that he had been hand picked for the job by the IRA.
"No, and I personally can only speak for myself, I was overwhelmed by the positive response, absolutely overwhelmed," he said.
He said he had received emails, letters, phone calls and met people on the street all of whom welcoming the declaration that decommissioning had taken place.