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“Diversity in Our Community” promotes communication between children from Protestant and Catholic communities in Northern Ireland, and is aimed at the eight to eleven years age group. It aims to develop concepts of identity and difference as well as enabling lasting friendships between children of different backgrounds.
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“Ourselves and Our Community” is aimed at children aged four to seven years old and promotes communication between children from Protestant and Catholic backgrounds in Northern Ireland. This initiative allows children to explore and develop their understanding of diversity and to be accepting of difference in their friendships.
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'Nusery minibeasts' is aimed at children aged three to four years who come from a variety of backgrounds. It introduces the concept of diversity through 'minibeast' themed play activities that help the children to explore the idea of difference as positive.
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The Koram Centre, a counselling provider, is offering an accredited course in solution focused counselling skills, open to professionals or volunteers working in the community. The aim is to support both individual and community healing through training people to promote positive relationship building and good mental health.
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The Koram Centre is working with US universities to develop a model of transformative dialogue that is appropriate for Northern Ireland. Victims and survivors of the conflict, and representative groups, will have the opportunity to be involved in this process. Transformative dialogue is concerned with dealing with the past, mediation and negotiation.
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This initiative faciliates dialogue between young political party activists aged 18-30. Participants join together in conferences to engage in discussion about human rights, enviromental, conflict and development issues. The initiative has encouraged the growth of mutual respect and interaction between young party members and the aim is that in the future, there will be better relationships between policy makers across the parties.
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'Negotiating Change' responds to earlier research that identifies particular alienation faced by the Protestant community in Derry/Londonderry. The initiative seeks to find means of reconciliation and inclusion. It uses the research findings to identify particular sites of conflict and then responds appropriately using a wide variety of projects.
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This initiative is part of a wider UK scheme which aims to promote best practice in human rights education for young people. Youth groups and schools undertake human rights projects which can then be submitted to a panel for an award. St Columb's Park House co-ordinates the scheme for Northern Ireland.
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This initiative engages young people from across the community in collaborative citizenship projects. This not only gives young people valuable skills that they can put towards accreditation, it changes the way that young people are seen in the community.
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This initiative engages identified local community groups in creating and managing organic allotments and a sensory garden. The groups are engaged in educational programmes around this, building greater environmental awareness and teaching sustainable skills. The aim is that this will have healing and therapeutic effects on a number of levels.
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This initiative works across the community to support and empower migrant communities and to combat discrimination, prejudice and hate crime against migrants. The aim is to create a tolerant community that is able to celebrate its diversity and integrate new people. It runs advocacy, training, and support programs which address the problem from multiple different angles, at a number of different levels.
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These school programmes engage children and young people in opportunities to learn about issues around the environment, culture and heritage, and human rights. Through building self-esteem, participants gain in confidence, and are able to reach a more mature understanding of difference. Training and support is given to teachers so that they can deliver better quality lessons around these issues.
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This initiative developed from recognition that local conflict needed to be addressed through bringing people together in a safe space where barriers could break down. It engages community groups, young people, and schools in a wide range of programmes which can be tailored to meet their needs.
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This initiative aims to open up dialogue between people from different ethnic backgrounds. People from the local community are encouraged to participate in anti-racism workshops before hosting their own discussions around relevant issues with people from different backgrounds. Accreditation and further training in anti-racism advocacy are also available.
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This initiative offers training all around the world in the skills and professional competencies which are most needed by community leaders in dealing with conflict. It aims to create international regional centres for this conflict training, and to create a working group of relevant agencies who will bring their expertise back to address community tensions in Northern Ireland.
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Quaker Meeting House provided a neutral meeting space throughout The Troubles, which enabled key players and processes to be identified.
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A programme of skills-training for young community activists to better equip them resolve conflicts in their communities.
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Training courses in mediation and conflict resolution mechanisms.
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An innovative, participative series of experiments in collective decision-making, designed to identify the consensual preferences of a group in a way that considers everyone's voices, not just the majority.
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The annual bonfires in Northern Ireland can be a flashpoint for sectarian conflict. By working with local communities, this initiative aims to ensure the bonfires are as safe, inclusive, and environmentally friendly as possible.
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A programme to connect young people in Northern Ireland from different ethnic backgrounds through the medium of music.
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A radio programme showcasing music from around the world from artists living in Northern Ireland.
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An international artists collective addressing racism and sectarianism through music.
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A newsletter to keep the people of Northern Ireland informed about human rights and non-violence locally and internationally.
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A programme to integrate human rights principles into all community conflict resolution work.
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Research into issues of local concern provides a strong evidence base for communities wishing to speak with an authoritative voice. This helps them to be heard and gives impetus to local partnerships to build on research findings.
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An education project bringing ex-combatants and victims of the Northern Ireland conflict together to live under extreme conditions in the South African wilderness.
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An education programme, including downloadable resources, to teach kids about peacebuilding.
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A magazine to keep the people of Northern Ireland aware of human rights initiatives and developments.
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A series of training workshops, seminars, exhibitions and youth camps aimed at promoting peace, conservation and trust between communities.
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This initiative in Damazin provided training in how to be effective at resolving conflicts. This included practicalities such as setting up projects, proposal writing, and fundraising.
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This workshop dealt with human security issues in Sudan. Unusually, it involved the police as well as diverse members of Sudanese society, and culminated in an agreement to build a new Peace Centre.
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This initiative uses drama to highlight the role of local NGOs in conflict resolution and encourage peaceful living in the Nuba Mountains.
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This self-help group for IDPs helps young men (who form the majority of combatants) to address issues of poverty and idleness in their lives, which in turn discourages them from engaging in violence in the community.
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This group responds quickly to conflict escalation in the Isiolo district, either through community liaison or non-violent direct action. It also advocates for the role of women in community peace-building.
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This initiative involved women from the two tribes collaborating on fundraising to resolve a dispute before a cycle of revenge killings started.
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This locally-run initiative gathered together community leaders and the tribal leaders of both sides to reach an agreement, in order to avoid a cycle of revenge killings.
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This initiative involved the Paralegal and Human Rights Centre facilitating a series of emergency meetings between a government representative and the leadership of the two tribes in order to end their recurring conflict over land use.
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Youth activists in the Nuba Mountains region spread knowledge of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) at the village level, including in Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) areas.
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The aim of this initiative is to prevent conflict breaking out over livestock issues in Samburu district. It runs restocking meetings to help those who lost livestock through drought, and uses these events to increase the pastoralists commitment to peaceful living.
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For this initiative a group of Serbian and Albanian children were taken on holiday, far from the fragile conflict-scarred region of Mitrovica. The idea was to connect youngsters from two ethnic groups who live close to each other but not with each other, in a city with lasting geographical and psychological divides created by the war.
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The Kosovo School for European Integration provides specialist teaching on the idea and the historical, political and economic characteristics of the EU, as well as the prospects of Kosovo and the surrounding region for European Integration.
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Facilitating the return of Serbian refugees to their former homes is an important part of transitional justice in Kosovo, and provides a strong example of peaceful inter-ethnic living for the region. It sends the message to other refugees that it is safe enough for them to return as well.
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In a municipality which was devastated during the war and is still deeply divided, this annual festival brings local youth together through their shared love of music.
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Young people living in Kakanj ended the dark post-war atmosphere created by the burnt out buildings and dirty walls of their city, working across ethnic divides to paint bright murals and messages of hope.
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Community Building Mitrovica (CBM) successfully mediated between IDPs and the receiving village community, organising meetings and building trust in order to facilitate return and re-integration.
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This initiative brought youth together in the deeply divided municipality of Vitez, central Bosnia, to meet and have fun with each other in a neutral space, and to show themselves in a peaceful, creative and positive light.
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The Music Bus tours the villages, refugee settlements, and schools of eastern Bosnia, running music and dance activities for the children who live there. This provides an oasis of creativity and inclusive community building for a generation still deeply divided along ethnic and national lines.
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These schools taught the concepts of human rights and means of their effective advocacy to over 100 high school and university students from Kosovo.
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This initiative aims to strengthen the multi-cultural life of Kosovo's next generation, by teaching contemporary acting to creative youths from varied national and ethnic backgrounds.
