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==The vision of this project== | ==The vision of this project== | ||
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==Objectives== | ==Objectives== | ||
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*[[Ten Panel Discussions/ Public Roundtables]] | *[[Ten Panel Discussions/ Public Roundtables]] | ||
*[[Act Beyond Borders International Conference]] | *[[Act Beyond Borders International Conference]] | ||
==Model== | |||
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====Selection of stakeholders==== | |||
Participants were selected from diverse local communities by expert informants. The key criterion was to secure a mixture of peace activists but also a few who were against any peace “rapprochement.” | |||
====Approach==== | |||
The project was designed as participatory action research grounded on the science of dialogic design. The project began with three consecutive (within a week) SDD processes (develop shared vision, identify obstacles, and explore actions) outside the conflict zone (in this case, Cyprus) engaging committed, already active peace builders (see left side of Figure). Between the second and the third SDD, the participants co-organized an international peace conference together with Greek and Turkish Cypriot actors. Having identified four target groups (business, informal education, students, and women) they created action groups (i.e., AG labels in Figure). | |||
====Actions==== | |||
Each AG selected and invited additional participants and organized their own SDD process, which was then followed by a comprehensive set of participatory intra-communal non-formal workshops (NFWS boxes in Figure). In parallel, a number of other activities were taking place. Following a training of trainers (top of Figure), those trained implemented a number of civil society strengthening pieces of training (purple boxes with a “W” in Figure , as well as multi-communal public debates (blue boxes with a “PD” in Figure), and a conference (purple box in Figure). | |||
The above design offered the conditions for the objectives of the project to go viral, engaging several thousand people in various activities, i.e., to continue through self-replicating processes beyond the lifetime of the project. | |||
==Special Mentions== | ==Special Mentions== | ||
[[Yiannis Laouris]] presented the theory and practice of the project as a keynote at the 2014 meeting of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]] on the invitation of its president [[Gerald Midgley]]. | |||
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