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Faith Community Network The Faith Community Network helps communities in South Thailand to resolve conflicts, working with local religious leaders. Many of the problems that have contributed to the violence in South Thailand have in fact existed for a long time. Differences in religion and culture have been cited as causing violence. In fact, it [...]
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Posts Tagged ‘Religious & Ethnic Diversity’
Youth Council for Cross Border Cooperation
Youth Council for Cross Border Cooperation (YC4CBC) is a group of young activists and students from Macedonia, Kosovo and Serbia. This group of social entrepreneurs joined together during 2007 in the Kosovan municipality of Gjilan. They initially found funding from the East West Institute (EWI), and the focus of their activities is on promoting trust [...]
Athwaas
Athwaas is an alliance of women in Kashmir, Jammu and Ladakh, facilitated by the WISCOMP organisation. Athwass has set up Samanbals– centres for women of all communities, ages and backgrounds to meet and share their concerns whilst learning income generating skills. With several Samanbals now in operation they have become a powerful network for promoting [...]
Yakjah Reconciliation and Development Network
Yakjah is a Kashmiri word meaning ‘Together’. This initiative first started in 2002 as a group of Kashmiris, Hindu and Muslim based in New Delhi, who met for coffee on weekends. They discussed their personal experiences and perceptions of the conflict. Today the group has built a network of professionals from Kashmir, Jammu, Ladakh (Indian [...]
Centre for Peacebuilding and Reconciliation (CPBR)
CPBR aims to bridge divisions in Sri Lanka by creating networked peacebuilding groups in diverse areas of the country, simultaneously empowering communities to address their own needs and raising awareness of the similarity of such needs across the country’s ethnic boundaries. CPBR conducts workshops, dialogues, gatherings and camps on peacebuilding and conflict transformation. Through these [...]
Batticaloa Befrienders
This well-established organisation runs various projects to help Muslim and Tamil communities escape the cycle of violence in Eastern Sri Lanka. By working to provide better lives for young people from both communities, they create hope for a peaceful future. Batticaloa Befrienders has been working for 16 years to enhance peaceful relations between Muslim and [...]
Peace and Health Progressing Organisation (PHPO)
PHPO perceives the lack of interaction between ethnicities as a main cause of the conflict in Sri Lanka, and intends to promote national integration through their organisational work. PHPO was initiated by the Muslim community, but today staff are drawn from all of Sri Lanka’s ethnic groups. PHPO conducts peace building and conflict transformation programs [...]
Jeewa Shakthi Foundation
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 [...]
Human Resource and Environmental Protection Organisation (HREPO)
HREPO aims to improve peace and security through environmental sustainability and the fostering of inter-ethnic relationships. They perceive poverty as one of the main causes for conflict in Sri Lanka, and believe therefore the poverty alleviation is a vital component of peacebuilding. They also act for environmental protection and, in relation to this and poverty [...]
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 [...]
