Youth Initiators of Change - Shabab Mobadiroun lel-Taghyir

Youth Initiators of Change was organized between 2013 and 2014 in Tripoli, Beirut and Chouf. It comprised of a series of capacity development activities on “non-violence, non-sectarianism and citizenship”, targeting over 200 students. These activities also included strategic planning for campaigns and interactive trainings addressing the civil war. The project produced a presentation and a documentary Rasa’el Jiran (Letters Between Neighbours) based on recorded testimonies, collected by students from Christians who fled Mazra’t Al-Chouf during the civil war, and their Druze former neighbours still living in the same village. The documentary sought to provide a shared space of communication and reconciliation between both communities who have been separated during the war, expressing now both their hope for return and living together. The students also produced different songs and short movies used in cultural events as well as a graffiti campaigns advocating for non-violence and non-sectarianism.