Overall objectives
1-Strengthen social cohesion and democracy processes in Palestinian Territories
Palestinian territories are affected by a conflict and a military occupation that have dramatic effects on all the population, such as poverty, violence and psychological traumas. The persisting and the increasing of the Middle East conflict, with the intensification of the military occupation in West Bank, produces a continuous worsening in the daily life of people. In such a framework, the social disgregation is the most dramatic consequence, that denies a democratic evolution and an effective participation of people in social life.
This action is an attempt to contribute to strengthen social cohesion, with a new tool: a community radio station, totally led by the civil society, in which community has the responsibility to decide what and how to communicate. Starting from Birzeit area, this kind of approach can be an interesting instrument for democratic participation of people in all Palestinian Territories.
2-Contribute to empower the social role of women and youth in Palestinian Territories
For a part of Palestinian society, most of all women and youth, there is lack of tools and spaces in order to meet, aggregate, exchange experiences, self-represent and communicate ideas, points of view, proposals. They have great potential innovative capabilities, but they can’t express themselves, because a threatened society is always authoritarian, and because of some traditional customs in Plaestinian society, such as in most of the world societies.
Giving voice to women and youth, this action aims to contribute to their empowerment, in order to make women and youth two more powerful segments in Palestinian society.
3-Contribute to induce inside the Palestinian society a participatory process in order to build conflict transformation in Middle East by communication tools
The promotion of a process of democratisation, focused on women and youth empowerment, is very important in the Palestinian society. In fact, women and youth have interesting creative potentialities to present new proposal and points of view in conflict transformation processes, that is very important in the Palestinian society and in the Middle East scenario. Social communication is one of the best effective tools in order to achieve this goal.
