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The Civil Society Act Beyond Borders Project is co-funded by the European Commission, European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR)and was carried out in collaboration with The Palestinian Dialogue Center, PDC, from West Bank and The Association for Progressive Education in Honor of Meir Yaari (YAARI)from Israel.
Background
Overall Objectives
Specific Objectives
Activities
- A1: Project Steering Committee;
A Project Steering committee was created and has been monitoring as well as offering feedback and ongoing communication with the partners and the lead applicant. An advisory board of esteemed members all of whom are experts in conflict resolution topics was created as well.
Advisory Board Members:
President, Dr Alecos Christakis, Founder, Institute for 21st Century Agoras.
Dr. Harry Anastasiou - Professor of International Peace and Conflict Studies in the Conflict Resolution Graduate Program and International Studies Program at Portland State University.
Dr. Hrach Gregorian - President of the Institute of World Affairs.
Mr. Marios Michaelides, Acting Head of Cyprus Intercultural Training Initiative.
- A2: Interactive online portal;
A website has been created with all relevant information about the project and the partner organisations as well as newsletters, informative material, publications, links, and various news articles. Also available on the website are all deliverables produced throughout the project (reports of the structured dialogue workshops, workshop reports).
Also created was a closed facebook group where participants can freely communicate with each other to exchange ideas, information, actions as well as keep in touch with each other on a personal level.
- A3: Structured dialogue workshops;
- A4: Creation of multi-stakeholder Action Groups;
- A5: Five trans-national Action Plan support workshops;
- A6: 10-day Training of Local Trainers;
- A7: Series of Basic Civil Society Strengthening Workshops;
- A8: Series of non-formal civil society action workshops;
- A9: Series of Advanced Civil Society Strengthening Workshops;
- A10: Ten Panel Discussions/ Public Roundtables; A11: Final Human Rights Conference in Cyprus