{"id":1542,"date":"2021-06-18T07:30:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T07:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neveragain.org.rw\/?page_id=1542"},"modified":"2024-04-19T17:46:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T15:46:35","slug":"our-five-pillars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/neveragainrwanda.org\/about\/our-five-pillars\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Pillars"},"content":{"rendered":"
Peacebuilding<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n We are empowering citizens with non-violent means of resolving conflict, building trust and promoting trauma healing and genocide prevention.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Through the Peacebuilding pillar, we train our beneficiaries, especially young people in critical thinking and dialogue facilitation skills. We also equip them with principles and values of peace education. We create and facilitate spaces for peace to bring together youth and community members from diverse backgrounds to discuss their traumatic sensitive issues in order to support each other in the healing process through dialogue. We convene a group of university students and young professionals from different countries in Africa and beyond every year, to inspire current and future peacebuilders through an intensive 2-week peacebuilding institute<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Governance and Human Rights<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n We are promoting participatory and inclusive decision-making processes and advancing rights-based approaches.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n We employ citizen-centered approaches to mobilize citizens to participate in policy and decision-making. Our interventions and activities aim to bridge the gap between citizens and decision-makers by creating spaces for dialogue through encouraging government accountability, responsiveness, transparency, and supporting citizen participation in the governing processes. We create citizen forums to build the capacity of citizens to better assess their needs and priorities, strengthening their link with policymakers, which minimizes the vertical space between the beneficiaries of public policies and decision-makers, thus strengthening the accountability of local authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Youth Engagement<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n We work with youth in affiliated clubs and associations from different schooling and non-schooling communities. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n We encourage them to use their talents like music, drama, dance, art and writing to spread the message of peace and be a beacon of hope to their fellow youth. <\/span>We are increasing the capacity of youth to become peace agents, improve their livelihoods, advocate for their rights and for those in their community. We provide youth with critical thinking skills, human rights education, peace education, support their initiated projects, create safe spaces for them to dialogue, facilitate intergenerational dialogue, engage them in democratic processes and avail them tools and platforms to engage. We also support youth to express and debate their views on democratic values, take leadership roles in political participation <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n