Civil Society Dialogue Project in Cyprus
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The Civil Society Dialogue project was envisioned, designed and implemented by Cypriot peace pioneers, mainly members of the Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group following the negative outcome of the referendum in 2004. The project brought together civil society organisations from both sides of the island to share experiences and work to create a Citizens’ Platform where ideas are discussed and an Action Plan is devised to build the new reunited Cyprus. Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot citizens having years of bi-communal experience will come together with others who are not very experienced in that field but that are young, well educated and motivated individuals to share experiences and ideas and generate their vision of the island.
The project was managed by the Cyprus EU Association, which is headed by Ali Erel, in collaboration with the Cyprus Intercultural Training Initiative (CITI), which is a body of facilitators created by members of the Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group and the 21st Century Agoras, the international body of Structured Democratic Dialogue Process scientists and practitioners. The Cyprus EU Association assigned Derya as overall Director for the implementation, Yiannis Laouris and Marios Michaelides from CITI assumed the role as main facilitators together with Aleco Christakis from the 21st Century Agoras.
A total of 5 Structured Democratic Dialogues were implemented in collaboration with the 21st Century Agoras and the Future Worlds Center
Links to the SDDPs
