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5 Examples of Tools for Reducing Violence and Promoting Citizenship Engagement and Peace
5 Examples of Tools for Reducing Violence and Promoting Citizenship Engagement and Peace
Pages 39-48
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Building and supporting a message of peace, acceptance, and religious pluralism were among the potential gains Abu-Nimer said were possible by appealing to religious leaders. Amalia Waxman, an independent consultant, suggested that messaging and technology are practical and accessible tools that are capable of creating social impact with significant reach across contexts that influence children and youth.
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Abed El Fattah El Samman, media trainer and Muslim preacher from Jordan, stated that the main catalyst in both peace and conflict is religion. Because of the persuasive power underlying religious beliefs, El Samman communicated the need to engage religious leaders, speaking from his perspective as a Muslim in Syria working on joint cooperation programs between Muslims and Christians through his work with the UN Development Programme.
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Nayla Tabbara, Director of the Adyan Institute in Lebanon, presented Adyan's experiences in education for peace and resilience for Syrian children displaced in Lebanon and within Syria. Through training educators on modules implemented with children aged between 7 and 15 and following up with them, Adyan focuses on strengthening resilience of children and educators affected by war, and on preparing the affected population for the postwar period, through education on diversity that aims to rebuild ties between the different cultural and religious Syrian communities that have been severed by war.
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By creating safe spaces for interreligious discussion and mutual knowledge, Tabbara emphasized that positively dealing with diversity as a path for peace building must replace dated and inefficient patterns of avoiding religion in an attempt to avoid conflict. Successful examples derived from the work of the Adyan Institute include messages of where paths of individuals have been transformed away from vulnerabilities, hope for the future, and self-healing and self-reconciliation.
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Aber grounded precedence for the application in the approximately 21 million young people who are currently not attending school in the region, a result of both low standards of educational instruction and poor quality of the learning environment. Referencing his experience working with 350 schools in postconflict areas of Eastern Congo on par with the conditions occurring in the Middle East, Aber noted the primary aim of the initiative is for the application to integrate social and emotional learning principles into the provision of school-based education as a way of improving students' well-being.
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The platform guides the individual filing the complaint in writing out the details and uploading a photo as illustrative evidence of the complaint. The individual then files the complaint by one of the predetermined categories indicated by the colored tabs in Figure 5-2 (public safety, sexual harassment, city facilities, child safety, racial discrimination, traffic, Internet usage, animal cruelty)
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The film contains five vignettes of children in different contexts around the world learning lessons of respect and understanding through social and cultural inclusion. Elattar prefaced the film by noting that the film depicts real stories with real friends, and not child actors.
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The second vignette depicts two German-speaking characters from Sesame Street initially terrified of each other because of size and appearance, only to find that they have similar physical characteristics despite their difference in stature. Returning back to Jordan, the film depicts two separate vignettes: one of a child with disabilities not allowing her wheelchair to stand in the way of engaging in an active lifestyle with her friends; the other vignette is of two boys of different cultural and religious backgrounds exchanging gifts during their respective holiday seasons (see Figure 5-3)
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Referencing a recurring call among workshop speakers to be deliberate with messaging and integrate communication, Janine Zacharia, lecturer at Stanford University in the United States, presented her work on the science of virtual reality and journalism, with applications for communication in conflict situations at a mass scale. For the researchers, nongovernmental organizations and the digitally savvy youth participating in the workshop, Zacharia provided a landscape of the types of virtual reality viewers available at different prices, including the Google cardboard viewfinders sent out with one particular issue of The New York Times in 2015 to view UNICEF's Clouds Over Sidra, which was also on display at the workshop.
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. Amid the public interest and widespread adoption of virtual reality tools -- in large part due to their accessibility and affordability -- Zacharia encouraged workshop participants to think about which communication technology works best in which context to enhance storytelling in ways that have enormous potential for encouraging empathy and engaging youth in real-world problems, such as the humanitarian crisis occurring in the Middle East.
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