Land/Region: Nigeria
Organisation: Interfaith Mediation Center
Arbeitsfeld: Friedenspädagogik; Mediation; Frühwarnsysteme gegen religiöse Gewalt
imcnigeria.org
| Land/Region | Israel |
| Konflikt | Bürgerkrieg |
| Organisation | School for Peace, im jüdisch-arabischen Dorf Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam |
| Arbeitsfeld | Kritische Dialoge zwischen israelischen und palästinensischen Jugendlichen; Training of Trainers in gewaltfreiem Konfliktmanagement |
Das Dorf ist einzigartig, und seine Schule auch. Vor mehr als 30 Jahren wurde Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam von einer gleich großen Zahl arabischer und jüdischer Familien gegründet mit dem Ziel, das friedliche Zusammenleben zu erproben.
Die „School for Peace“ ist ein Trainingszentrum für junge Erwachsene, das von Nava Sonnenschein gegründet wurde und geleitet wird. Fast 40.000 Menschen beider „Seiten“ haben seit 1979 dort gewaltloses Konfliktmanagement gelernt. Für den persönlichen Umgang mit dem Machtkonflikt in Israel/Palästina, aber auch für die Funktion als Trainer, der andere in dieser Methode ausbildet.
Die „kritischen Dialoge“, die in dem Zentrum entwickelt wurden, zielen nicht auf oberflächliche Sympathie zwischen den Teilnehmenden. „Verständnis und Mitgefühl allein können den Konflikt nicht lösen“, sagt N. Sonnenschein. In den Kursen geht darum, die eigene Geschichte als eine kulturell gefärbte Erzählung zu verstehen – und damit das Verständnis zu gewinnen, dass die jeweils andere Gruppe ein anderes Narrativ hat.
Dabei tauchen Verletzungen und schmerzhafte Gefühle auf: die emotionale Seite des Konflikts wird nicht unterdrückt, sondern bekommt ihren Raum. Alle Dialoge werden gut moderiert und supervidiert.
Respekt vor der ganz anderen Geschichtsdeutung ist die Grundlage dafür, die Existenzberechtigung anderer anzuerkennen. In weiteren Kursen lernen jene Jugendliche, die besonders motiviert sind, wie sie als „Change Agents“ eine positive Rolle im politischen Prozess der Verständigung einnehmen können.
Weil diese Methode besonders wirksam ist, wird Nava Sonnenschein weltweit als Trainerin angefragt. Sie lehrte bereits in Costa Rica, Zypern und auf dem Balkan.
LINKS:
- Reportage von Peace Counts: http://www.peace-counts.org/lernort_fuer_frieden/
- Dr. Nava Sonnenschein Receives “Women of Courage” Award Nominee Certificate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smhXrGAOQRc
- School for Peace: http://wasns.org/-the-school-for-peace-
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Land/Region: Israel
Organisation: Neve Shalom/ Wahat al-Salam
Arbeitsfeld: Kritische Dialoge zw. Israelis und Palästinensern
LINK:
wasns.org
Land/Region: USA
Organisation: Building Markets
Arbeitsfeld: Arbeitsplätze zur F.stabilisierung schaffen
Job creation is one of the greatest drivers of poverty reduction and stability in conflict-prone countries. The key to those jobs? Local entrepreneurs. The reason that poverty and instability persist is due to basic barriers that prevent local entrepreneurs from accessing formal business opportunities. Building Markets was founded to solve this problem.
Our approach is simple. We connect local entrepreneurs to domestic, regional and global supply chains. Our teams start by finding and verifying competitive local businesses and matching them with the demands of buyers. We collect and translate tenders and distribute them through our extensive networks.
We train local businesses on how to bid on, win and execute those tenders. We measure impact, and we advocate for aid reform and open markets.
To date we have redirected over $1 billion into some of the world’s poorest nations, helping to create the full-time equivalent of over 65,000 jobs.
Scott Gilmore is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Building Markets. Prior to this, Scott was a Canadian diplomat, his last position being the Deputy Director for South Asia, working on Canada’s integrated defence, development and diplomatic assistance to Afghanistan.
LINK:
buildingmarkets.org
Land/Region: USA
Organisation: Cure Violence
Arbeitsfeld: städtische Gewalt
Gary Slutkin is eradicating and preventing gun violence in the most dangerous of urban areas through a unique model in which he treats violence as an infectious disease.
His CeaseFire model, informed by over a decade of battling infectious diseases in Africa and honed by years of careful implementation in North America is significantly reducing the incidence of gun violence in the U.S. and also spreading internationally.
Land/Region: Brasilien
Organisation: Papo de Responsa
Arbeitsfeld: städtische Gewalt, Dialoge, Polizei
Rampant crime, poverty, and drug trafficking in Brazil’s favela (slum) communities have led to some of the highest murder rates in the world.
Alleged deaths of favela dwellers by the police are especially severe. Over the years, police have come to see favelas as lawless territories, while the community, especially youth, view the police as invaders who abuse their authority with impunity. Roberto “Beto” Chaves, a member of Rio de Janeiro’s police force, is rebuilding trust between Rio’s police and its favela communities.
Through a series of “chats” held in schools with a law enforcement official, an ex-convict, and community youth, old stereotypes are gradually broken down and lead to respect and mutual understanding among the youth and the Civil Police Department. Beto then institutionalizes these changed attitudes within the police department and the affected communities.
The program has achieved so much initial success, reaching more than 20,000 youth in a few years, that it has attracted partners from all sectors, greater visibility, and respect within the police force.
Beto was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro as the youngest child in a working-class family. He worked in the family construction materials store, located at the edge of some of the biggest favelas in Rio. After receiving admittance into the Rio law enforcement, he served in many different roles including as part of the elite SWAT team, which was called into a favela to respond to reports of shooting involving police, and a high-profile working group to reform the force.
Country/region: Indonesien
Conflict: Ethnic-religious conflicts
Organisation: Institut Mosintuwu
Field of work: Reconciliation, interreligious dialogue, empowerment for women
Despite entering a democratic transition, violent internal conflicts have continued across Indonesia after the fall of the Suharto regime in 1998. The violence is estimated to have displaced more than a million people and led to the loss of thousands of lives. With the experience of previous violent upheaval, Indonesia’s diverse culture, ethnicity, and religion remain potent areas of communal conflict. Lian Gogali has created a method for trauma healing and cultivating empathy by which women and children transform themselves from victims, into survivors, and peacemakers.
For the process to take place, Lian developed the Women’s School, where female post-conflict victims and former religious opponents come together, first and foremost, as friends. Women start with a discussion of daily life, sharing personal narratives and discuss their position in society. The school allows women to experience healing and new reflections on conflict, gain social and civic training, speak their mind, and deliver messages of peace. They build trust while having interfaith dialogues among different ethnic and religious backgrounds (Muslim, Christian and Hindu).
Through the Women’s School, Lian has set up a network of Interfaith Women’s Organizations, which are set to become the platform for other women’s organizations, such as the Women’s Congress, where women gain influence in policymaking. Because conflict in the region is mainly across religious lines, women cannot heal unless they use interfaith dialogue and communication. Lian developed a mobile library initiative at the “boundary” of religiously demarcated communities, through which children from various religious and ethnic backgrounds come together. For the mobile library project, Lian uses books as a medium to build trust and teach diversity. Due to its success, the Women’s School has received attention from local politicians and government, which will further aid it to become involved in the peacebuilding process in Poso. Lian soon plans to insert the Women’s School concept into Christian worship at church prayer groups, as well as Muslim prayer groups (majelis taklim).
Lian is an Ashoka Fellow and got the „Coexist Prize“.
LINK:
Institut Mosintuwu
Ashoka Fellow
https://www.ashoka.org/fellow/nerlian-gogali
Speaker TedX:
Land/Region: UK
Organisation: Videre
Arbeitsfeld: Menschenrechtsarbeit, Medien
Oren Yakobovich is exposing human rights abuses in remote areas, bringing justice to victims who would otherwise remain unheard, and distributing trusted information in order to prevent perpetrators from acting with impunity.
Through Videre, Oren is building networks of local human rights activists proactively capturing human rights abuses on video, allowing patterns of abuse and violence to be detected. Videre then distributes strategically selected footage to the most relevant stakeholders in order to bring about change.
Oren applies his methodology to areas where traditional media can’t or won’t go, combining the rigor of traditional journalism with the efficiency of new media technology. Videre is building a unique and powerful media type, which sits between citizen journalism on the one hand, where information flows are unregulated, and therefore often of low impact, and traditional media on the other hand, which is controlled by outsiders who have limited and biased information of real conditions on the ground.
By putting cutting edge technology into the hands of those who can benefit most from its use – oppressed communities and minorities in remote areas – Oren is creating a trusted communication channel bridging to decision-makers to affect lasting change.
Von eigener Website: „Driven to raise awareness about the inequalities that he saw in the world, Oren Yakobovich has been working at the intersection of human rights and filmmaking for 20 years. Prior to co-founding Videre in 2008, he led the video department at the Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem.
At B’Tselem, he developed ‘Shooting Back,’ a video project that has trained hundreds of citizens in the West Bank to use cameras to fight for justice. The project won several awards, including the BBC’s One World Media award and the International Media Award’s Cutting Edge Prize. Oren’s work has been screened at Berlin and Sundance among other festivals.
A sought-after expert on using technology to expose human rights violations, Oren is frequently called upon to brief civil society, government, international organisation and media decision-makers.“
LINK:
videreonline.org
Land/Region: United Arab Emirates, Syria
Organisation: Dubarah
Arbeitsfeld: Empowerment for refugees, social entrepreneurship
Ahmad Edilbi is introducing a new way to empower, integrate and build social capital in scattered, immigrant populations that have been affected by a political crisis or natural disaster. Using diaspora networks, he enables refugees to play an active and productive role, thus changing their status from helplessness to independence and promoting positive perceptions of refugees. By regaining their self-confidence and becoming financially independent, refugees are able to be active and contributing members of their communities, thus changing the negative perception and stereotype that refugees are a burden and only bring problems to a community. This transition opens the doors for unity, constructive exchange and channels of mutual support.
The prolonged Syrian political conflict and its resulting violence, destruction, devastation and armed assaults, have forced millions of Syrians to flee their homeland, most taking only their personal savings and leaving behind their professional careers, education, families and homes. When the Syrian conflict broke out, Ahmad was married, father of three children and had a good job. His life took a drastically different turn when he lost all his belongings, had to leave Syria and was separated from his family. Out of his own experience as a refugee he later developed the idea to help others who have been displaced.
In 2013 he launched Dubarah (“solution”), the first service network working on supporting Syrians wherever they are and providing them with suitable solutions for the obstacles they are facing. In just one year, Dubarah impacted 250,000 Syrian refugees around the world, with an average of 500 solutions and consultations provided per day with a total of 25,900 opportunities secured covering jobs, investments, start-up advice, housing, legal consultations and educational opportunities.
Ahmad is a Creative Director, Branding Specialist and Social Entrepreneur with skills in journalism, public relations and visual communication. He is an RSA Fellow and Ashoka Fellow and has plans to replicate his work, which already spans 36 countries that have large communities of Syrian refugees, to other geographical areas and communities beyond Syrians that have suffered from post-disaster displacement.
Links:
Ashoka:
https://www.ashoka.org/fellow/ahmad-edilbi
Dubarah:
on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/Abu.Jad.Creative
Land/Region: USA
Organisation: Peace Appeal
Arbeitsfeld: Moderation von Friedensverhandlungen, Entwicklung von Friedensstrategien
The mission of the Peace Appeal Foundation is to assist national stakeholders in the design and implementation of peace and national change processes. The aim of this work is to achieve agreed, fair and just outcomes, ending violent political conflict.
The Peace Appeal Foundation works by invitation. In collaboration with local and international partners, we help stakeholders develop peace and national change processes that are long-term and multifaceted.
These processes involve a multiplicity of interdependent individual and institutional actors, initiatives and ideas, a veritable “ecosystem of peacebuilding.” We believe peacemaking has three essential elements: courage, compassion and the ability to create collaborative change.
LINK:
peaceappeal.org
Fahim Hakim, Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), Afghanistan
Commissioner Fahim Hakim is a qualified social, development and human rights advocate. He enjoys 20 years of experience of working as a grass-root peace builder and advocate for community empowerment and human rights. Before joining the AIHRC, he was director and founding member of Co-operation for peace and Unity (CPAU), as Afghan network for peace.
AS an active member of Afghan civil society, he attended the Bonn Conference in 2001. Mr. Hakim completed his MA studies at PRDU, the University of York, York, UK, in 1998. In 2009, he was a commissioner and member of the Electoral complaints Commission (ECC) to deal with challenges and complaints related to presidential and provincial council’s elections.