Peacebuilding & Social Cohesion
Building bridges. Restoring hope. Sustaining peace. EYE empowers communities through dialogue, reconciliation, youth engagement, and women-led initiatives, fostering harmony and social cohesion in refugee and host communities.
Our Approach
EYE recognizes that lasting peace must be cultivated from within communities. We promote participatory peacebuilding, strengthen local governance, and create safe spaces for dialogue and collaboration between refugees, host communities, women, and youth. Our initiatives transform former adversaries into partners in progress, united by a vision of coexistence and shared hope.
Strategic Focus Areas
- Community Dialogue & Mediation: Facilitating inclusive forums to address grievances, prevent violence, and foster reconciliation.
- Youth Peace Ambassadors: Training young leaders to champion nonviolence, tolerance, and civic engagement in their communities.
- Women in Peacebuilding: Empowering women as mediators, decision-makers, and advocates for social harmony.
- Conflict-Sensitive Programming: Mainstreaming peace and conflict analysis across sectors to ensure interventions reinforce social cohesion.
- Cultural Exchange & Sports for Peace: Using arts, culture, and sports as tools for healing, mutual understanding, and community bonding.
Key Activities
- Peace Dialogues: Organizing discussions between refugees and host communities to address land, resource, and cultural conflicts.
- Community Peace Committees: Mediating disputes and promoting joint problem-solving initiatives.
- Youth Leadership Camps & Peace Clubs: Encouraging empathy, cooperation, and civic engagement among young people.
- Women Leadership Training: Building negotiation, mediation, and trauma healing skills among women.
- Sports & Cultural Events: Bringing diverse groups together under the spirit of unity and shared identity.
Our Impact
EYE’s peacebuilding initiatives have reduced inter-community tensions, rebuilt trust, and strengthened collaboration. Youth and women are actively participating in decision-making, schools and communities are safer, and joint development initiatives flourish. Trust, reconciliation, and social cohesion are becoming the foundation for sustainable development and community resilience.
Examples include: strengthened local peace committees, reduced conflict incidents, increased youth and women participation, and stronger collaboration between refugee and host communities.