KEDE Center for Research and Action for Peace

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KEDECenter for Research and Action for Peace

• building peace one step at a time

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KEDE is

• Our Mission
• Our Beginnings
• Our Projects
• Our Activities
• Our Future

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Our Mission

• Goal Global Justice and Peace through Human
  Rights
• Objectives
• Promote gender equality
• Support practices of coexistence
• Campaign for human rights implementation and
  protection
• Encourage protection of the environment

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Our Beginnings

• Non-profit, NGO
• Established1988
• Diverse membership of like-minded women
• Headquarters in Athens
• To position womens perspective in the peace
  process

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Our Projects

• WINPEACE
• STOP NOW
• SEE Health
• Thrace Project
• Peace Education

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Womens Initiative for Peace

• Volunteer , Greek / Turkish womens network
• Inspired by womens values of preserving life,
  promoting equality and
• safeguarding peace
• Activities
• Youth Camps
• Agro-tourism
• Book Project
• Gazi School

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WINPEACE Youth Camp

• Turkish, Greek, and Cypriot university and high
  school students
• Discussions and working sessions on
• Diplomacy and Conflict Prevention
• History
• Human Rights
• Exchange ideas and amend stereotypes

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WINPEACE Agro-tourism

• Supports training of tourism cooperatives
• Protects areas from overdevelopment
• Modeled after successful program in Lesvos

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WINPEACE Book Project

• Translations (Greek and Turkish) of selected
  books
• Selection Criteria
• Peace promoting
• Feminist approach to peace
• Promote ideas of like-minded authors
• Increase sharing of ideas between the two
  countries

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WINPEACE Gazi School

• Focus on Muslim children
• Highlights personal needs
• Develop needs-specific programs
• Stresses parental involvement

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Stop Trafficking of People Now

• Prevent trafficking of women and children by
• Public awareness campaigns
• Research
• Networking countries of origin and destinations
• Lobbying
• Empowerment of women
• www.stop-trafficking.org

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South Eastern Europe Health Promotion Network

• Empowerment of social excluded group through
  education of public health
• Provide practical advice and easy instruction on
  four key health themes
• Nutrition
• Physical fitness
• Mental health
• Environment
• www.seehealth.org

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Thrace Project for Empowerment

• Empowerment program for Muslim women living in
  Thrace
• Greek language lessons
• Creation of women-owned businesses, cooperatives,
  and enterprises
• Agricultural training in the growing of aromatic
  and medicinal plants
• Health care education
• Human rights education and awareness

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Peace Education and Training

• Developing peace education and training programs
• Training peer educators, negotiators, and
  mediators.
• Peace education curriculum elementary,
  secondary, and university
• Creation of a Peace Education Research Center
• Join existing forces in the peace process.

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Our Activities

• International and Regional
• Presentations before NATO, the UN, and
  congressional and parliamentary bodies
• Participate in international peace conferences,
  marches and rallies
• Member of international network peace and human
  rights activists.
• Local NGO Fair
• Fundraising events

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Our Future

• To continue womens involvement in the peace
  process
• Focus on youth and women
• Encourage men towards the feminine perspective of
  peace
• Enlarge our presence at internationally venues
  held in the name of peace
• Volunteerism campaigns

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Thank You!

• Center for Research and Action for Peace
• KEDE
• Rizou Neroulou 30 ,Galatsi
• Athens, 11141 GREECE
• Phone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• kede_at_kede.org