"A beautiful reminder of our values." Ieva Ulianskaite (Positive YOUth, Sweden)
The fifth edition of Celebrating Our Diversity Forum took place on 15 and 16 November with the participation of more than 50 civil society members from Sweden, Germany and Lebanon. Members and alumni of the Anna Lindh Foundation networks hosted workshops and participated in networking discussions.
The Forum hosts sent a clear message that we need dialogue more than ever and that there is no place for violence among us.
The Forum was originally planned to take place in Beirut but the organisers hosted it online due to the ongoing war in the Middle East.
The Forum programme includes networking sessions and workshops (Practitioners Lab) where civil society representatives got the chance to spread the word about a manual/toolkit or promote their organisation and ongoing projects. Fatma Kotkat from the Anna Lindh Foundation presented the programmes and upcoming calls by the Foundation.
Programme
Wednesday 15 November
09.30 - 09.45 Welcome and Introduction
09.45 - 10.30 Networking
10.30 - 10.45 Break
10.45 - 11.45 Practitioners Lab (parallel workshops)
- Global (in)justice and international solidarity (PeaceWorks Sweden)
- Intergenerational Dialogue (Swedish Dialogue Institute MENA and Folke Bernadotte Academy - Amman/Sweden)
- Everyday Music Appreciation (Give something back to Berlin- Germany)
- Let's Open the Toolbox (MitOst - Germany)
- Reclaiming your public spaces: community engagement through advocacy (NAHNOO - Lebanon)
11.45 - 12.00 Reflections and "see you tomorrow"
Thursday 16 November
09.30 - 09.45 Welcome and Introduction
09.45 - 10.15 Networking
10.15 - 10.30 Presenting Anna Lindh Foundation Programmes (Fatma Kotkat, Senior Country Desk Officer)
10.30 - 10.45 Break
10.45 - 11.45 Practitioners Lab (parallel workshops)
- Just Pass the Mic (Transeuropa Halles - Sweden)
- Empowerment Through Role Models (Hero2Be - Sweden)
- Build Resilience: strategies to handle resistance (Her Melody - Sweden)
- Connecting Perspectives (InterCulture - Germany)
- Online toolkit on combating hate speech for youth (Dawaer Foundation - Lebanon)
- Youth work within current challenges: Can we keep it up? (Youth Development Organization - Lebanon)
11.45 - 12.00 Reflections and see you at the 6th edition
Moderation: Karin Bruce (LärOlika, Stockholm)
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For information/questions
Swenja Zaremba and Hoai Truong - ALF Coordinators in Germany
Zeina El-Hage - ALF Coordinator in Lebanon
Rasha Shaaban - ALF Coordinator in Sweden
This Forum is organised by the National Museums of World Culture (Sweden), Goethe-Institut (Germany) and the Lebanese National Commission for UNESCO (Lebanon) with the support of the Anna Lindh Foundation, European Commission, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Swedish Dialogue Institute MENA.