Common People for Common Good (CP4CG)

The project goal is to promote equal citizenship rights and interfaith dialogue by using transformational training workshops, new media, and social change concepts and methods. It is anticipated that this project will increase both stakeholder capacity and commitment to dialogue, culture of inclusion, participation, and rights protection of people of different faiths. As a result of the project activities, partners and stakeholders will design and use training tools for societal transformation that both reduce stigma and discrimination.

Accordingly, the project’s specific objectives are;

1. To provide opportunity for members of different faiths and different backgrounds to have safe space to exchange feelings, and ideas, and to discuss misconceptions, and explore all stereotypes about each other;

2. To include stakeholders in a cause –based dialogue, to productively reverse the trend of produced hatred by some of those stakeholders, and to have them enter into the healing process of openness, understanding, and forgiveness;

3. To allow those stakeholders to change their old distrust-promoting discourse from within, so they can contribute to a new bridge-building, and dialogue promoting one;

4. To train stakeholders on main leadership skills, dialogue tools, public speaking skills, new media apparatuses, behavior and mindset change abilities, so they can train their constituencies and leaders of their communities in order to spread the culture of dialogue and trust;

5. To project citizenship as one of the key human rights in Egypt, that will help sustaining all developmental efforts in the country;

6. To promote human-oriented religious interpretations that already exist in all scriptures, and to emphasize that religions can be in service of humanity;

7. To point out that the underlying causes that fuel Religious tensions include stereotypes, stigma and discrimination against people of different faiths;

8. To look for opportunities that will allow us to create new networks, use existing networks, corporate with existing allies, and work with groups, non-governmental organizations, faith based organizations, and other interested groups in promoting dialogue, and outreach programs.

The project activities will include 4 trainings (40 participants each) with a total 160 participants during the 5 months project duration.