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The vision of this project
Objectives
The project concentrated on:
- Increasing Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot coaches’ and Peace Players International (PPI) team members’ skills through Non-Violent Communication (NVC)
- Increasing dialogue among Cypriot youth during mono- and bi-communal activities through sports
- Emphasizing team spirit and relationship building through interaction
- Empowering youth to visualize a future Cyprus with Structured Dialogic Design Process.
Target Groups
- The project aimed to reach the Turkish Cypriot and the Greek Cypriot youth aged 10-15 both from urban and rural settings (approximately 300 youngsters have been reached; the project also aimed to encourage girls’ participation)
- PeacePlayers International Basketball team members and coaches
- Cypriot Civil Society
- Media
Activities
In celebrating the EU’s Year of Intercultural Dialogue, the Action has held the following activities:
- Train the trainer: 3-4 sustainable workshops of NVC involving facilitation and envisioning for PPI team coaches island-wide
- Train the youth: PPI team coaches return to their communities and deliver training to youth in a mono- and bi-communal setting. *Cypriot youth paints their future Cyprus on a canvass together; youth’s paintings have been displayed in the Buffer Zone
- Dialogue Night: one basketball finale and video production by the bi-communal television show “Biz/Emeis” highlighting the project for their show on the “Dialogue Night”
- An interview featuring the representatives from the partner organizations on the bi-communal radio show “Talk of the Island”
- Disseminating the video and a ‘pod cast’ of the interview for the project members’ and Anna Lindh Foundation’s websites.