Source: startupsnthecity.com In the winter of 1997, an 18-year-old Kai Brand Jacobsen set foot in Cluj-Napoca for the first time. What was meant to be a brief visit to meet Denisa — whom he had met at an international summer school in Norway — turned into the beginning of a lifelong connection to the city […]
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REGISTER HERE The INDEED Webinar on “Gender, Ethics and Societal Aspects of P/CVE Evaluation” will provide a concise overview of the current knowledge and existing gaps in GELSA within the realm of Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE). This session will delve into practical applications of GELSA in P/CVE work and evaluation, with a special focus on
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ABOUT THE PROJECT The project raises awareness of the history of resistance and solidarity against right-wing authoritarianism in five target countries: Finland, Italy, Portugal, Romania and Spain. It starts a communitarian reflection on past resistance and agency in places where they have been silenced pocketed as something else, or ignored. SolRem sheds light on the
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ABOUT THE PROJECT the project sets to help a new generation of youth to respond to the social tensions, bias and discrimination triggered everywhere by war. OBJECTIVES: •Return the focus and trust on the importance and possibilities of non-violent social response to militant actions and agency of activism building positive peace in society. •To provide
ABOUT THE PROJECT YOUth grow EQUAL is a project aimed at respecting, protecting and promoting equal rights for women and girls by making use of both formal and nonformal education while empowering teachers and youth to fight against gender inequality, gender discrimination, stereotyping and raising awareness about domestic violence as a prevalent form of gender
The prospect of an Israeli offensive in Rafah, where hundreds of thousands are sheltering, has sparked outrage around the world.
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Despite blaming the prime minister, a large majority of Jewish Israeli citizens support his destructive policies in Gaza and beyond.
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On March 28th, we welcomed Pablo Zapata, the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Romania (UNHCR Romania), to Ukraine House. UNHCR Romania is our partner in establishing and developing the protection hub for Ukrainian refugees in Cluj. During the meeting, we discussed crucial topics concerning support for the Ukrainian community in
20 March 2024 // WagingNonViolence.org As the genocide in Gaza accelerates, young Israelis who refuse military service are following in the footsteps of history’s great peacemakers. According to legend, the organization I lead, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, was founded in August 1914 when a British Quaker and a German Lutheran shook hands at a railway
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The Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR) was founded in 2001 as a non-governmental, non-profit, politically independent organization in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The institute has as basic principles non-violence, conflict transformation, the promotion of human rights through information and awareness raising by solutions oriented, social, political and economic analysis