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Jeewa Shakthi started as a group effort to find a solution to the extremely high suicide rate in the Thanamalvila area, they concluded that the root causes were not only conflicts on a personal level, but those that existed on a community level across Sri Lanka. As a result they began to work on achieving [...]
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Jeewa Shakthi Foundation
Samasevaya
Samasevaya works for peace, democracy, and human rights through development. It helps to strengthen the peace process in the country and aims to further the acceptance of peoples’ right to peace and development, and to strengthen civil society’s contribution to conflict transformation. Through their programmes they have been able to unite people to work for [...]
Sithumina
Sithumina aims for the promotion of peace and development in the family, community, and the country. They work in the region of Kahatagasdigiliya, a mulit-ethnic region that has for generations been home to Tamils, Muslims, & Sinhalese, to counteract the destructive ideologies that come out of the conflict and threaten to destabilise the community.
Multi-ethnic Pre-schools
Since [...]
Power Foundation
Power Foundation mainly works at a grassroots level amongst the tea plantation workers in central Sri Lanka. It acts to promote awareness of gender equality, to ease ethnic conflict, and to conduct peace building-building activities between the plantation workers and neighbouring villages.
They conduct ‘cultural sharing’ programs and educational programs to promote ethnic cooperation between [...]
National Olympic Committee
The National Olympic Committee (NOC) is a local branch of the International Olympic Committee. Their mission is to promote the Olympic Charter, to develop training facilities for athletes, and to encourage participation in competitive sports at different levels. Through this they aim to promote a culture of peace, and the associated values of social development, [...]
Karnali Integrated Rural Development and Research Centre (KIRDARC)
KIRDARC aims to promote peace, human rights, development and good governance in the Karnali zone of Nepal. They see development as one of the key components of peace and therefore focus on developing economic capacity and infrastructure through activities like road construction. KIRDARC believes that the lack of access to economically viable alternatives can push [...]
Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation
The Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation is devoted to peacebuilding and reconciliation in Ireland, North and South, Great Britain and beyond. The organisation’s programmes build peace and foster reconciliation by facilitating dialogues, creating peace education resources, and much more. Glencree offer a safe and neutral space, extensive facilities and the support of its membership, [...]
A Step Away
A Step Away believes that art and culture play a major role in advancing Lebanese society towards peace, justice, and democracy. A Step Away exists to support young artists by promoting the production of contemporary works and providing a space for creative activity. In doing so, A Step Away aims to expand the role of [...]
Zico House
Zico House was started by Moustapha Yamout (aka Zico), a lover of arts and culture, in his family home, in order to give artists and performers a space to create and express themselves. As a platform for emergent artists, it defends experimental and avant-garde works and contributes to the development of art in Lebanon.
Since 1999, [...]
UMAM Documentation & Research (UMAM D&R)
UMAM D&R is a Lebanese organisation working towards raising awareness of civil violence and war memories in Lebanon, as a platform for debate and a means to break cycles of blame and conflict. UMAM D&R argue that the increasing number of voices calling for truth-seeking in Lebanon, the ongoing cycles of blame and counter blame [...]
