Madaba - King Abdaleh Street
Madaba - AlMamuneh -
Madaba 17110
Jordan
- Democracy and community development
At the beginning of 2006, a group of Jordanian youth from governorate of Madaba –located 35 km south of the capital, Amman, regarded as one of the poorest areas, predominantly rural and tribal and includes various ethnic and religious differences that contribute to social tensions sometimes- initiated to set up the foundation without being under lights or waiting for rewards but to satisfy their values of generosity.
We are working with new vision on developing local communities in order to perceive the outputs of age and interact with them throughout new methodologies, so that society institutions can perform a role in development and peace-making processes side by side with the private sector institutions, as well as applying the effective decentralization and democracy, in terms of participation, transparency and rule of the law, and to perform friendly-surrounded projects away from extremism and fanaticism.
As a response to that, Madaba for Supporting Development fulfils several programs and activities that contribute to reduce physical and forced violence occurred among different groups of society, especially school and university students, through programs and trainings on disputes resolutions and communication skills between conflicting parties, it also develops new programs and prepares documents to prevent applying forced violence, and then to reduce revenge phenomenon and killing for honor, to work on issuing new law to restrict having and selling arms in Jordan and it also invites the Jordanian government to sign the international arms conventions.
So MSD participated in creating Arab network of non- violence co-founded by civil society organizations in the Arab world, sent students to study non-violent stream at the university of non-violence in Beirut, participated in all training opportunities concerning with disputes resolutions with international and Arabic organizations, the foundation also is an active member in the international network for reducing small arms abuse and cooperates with Jordanian government to create the plans and to implement programs for reducing violence among schools students and it is the only party found the boards of tolerance and non-violence at schools since 2004 that watch verbal and physical violence among students.
Madaba for Supporting Development motivates youth people and serves society, strengthens individuals abilities and skills and creates the partnerships in Middle East and world to prevent conflicts and reduce disputes of different types, consequently having a better future for the coming generations, preventing disputes to be occurred among unlike religious followers and confirm applying international and local human rights and small arms conventions throughout the following assumptions:
The right to live in peace:
Madaba for Supporting Development settles the principle of living peacefully for humanity and enjoying a safe physical, religious and psychological life away from all violence manners, whether physical or psychological.
This was achieved through a variety of courses, workshops and conferences that it holds at schools, communities and universities for students, Woman , teachers and activists from civil society organizations on violence alternatives to provide a safe environment and security for all.
These programs can be managed through:
1- Schools of education:
Schools provide the fertile ground for violence among students, Madaba for Supporting Development creates the different plans and programs concerned with reducing violence among students since 2006 up to date and have a focus on training the violent students the strategies of reducing violence, its alternatives into schools and mechanisms to move away through different skills that the foundation staff train on, as well as the foundation cooperates with instruction and administrative bodies to put a training programs to educate them about disputes resolutions skills and classroom direction through programs related with (physical violence alternatives at schools).
2- Civil society institutions:
Madaba for Supporting Development works coordinately with local civil society institutions, universities and schools to study violence reasons among students and youth people in general, the mechanism of reduction taking into consideration its alternatives and social Customs and traditions influence to restrict its diffusion, whether armed violence or another, foundation also trained the youth aged of (18-25) for -those activists from all over the kingdom especially marginalized areas that pass through the poverty and unemployment- to decrease violence effects .
3- Government and parliament:
Madaba for Supporting Development is actively involved with governmental agencies such as Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, public security and the parliament to study the legislations and legal procedures adopted by the government to reduce violence phenomenon among the various society groups, especially the forced violence which was on rise during the last few years. Madaba for Supporting Development –through advocacy campaigns cooperated with civil society institutions and universities – successfully urged the government to reconsider the law of arms and ammunition of 1952, it also submitted a proposal for setting up a new law discussed these days by technicians, it urged the Jordanian government to sign the international convention for reducing arms abuse which has been called for by the World Campaign, as the arms use in Jordan related with tribal dimensions referring back to those inherited traditions of having the arms.
Madaba for Supporting Development believes that the just and everlasting peace can be achieved only by applying the principles of justice and equality of rights and applying the just international law too, it also sustains all of the activities and trainings that contribute to create a generation believes in just peace away from terrorism and extremism. Next generations have the right to live freely and peacefully, so foundation encourages those works contribute to create the opportunities to the youth worldwide to visit each other in order to break the barriers and to be acquainted with the customs and traditions that promote love and peace spirit including being free of fears from the other.
These will com through educating youth about human security, human rights and sustainable human development.
• To promote youth participation in volunteering inside NGOs. (Non governmental organizations)
• To hold awareness courses in the field of woman and child rights and reduce abusing them
• To promote youth participation in reducing bad customs in the society
• To promote the spirit of citizenship and put the plans and programs to reduce violence among youth people.
• To promote the democracy and dialogue among youth people in Jordan and worldwide.
• To spread the spirit of love and peace and being away of extremism.
Our organization MSD has good relations with civil society in the south and the Middle Badeah , through our projects that we implement on the topics of peace, peaceful coexistence, and rejection of violence in all its forms specially the gun violence .
This work makes us look to build our capabilities further on the issues of peacebuilding and interfaith coexistence, especially since our city Madaba is considered an grate example of Christian-Muslim coexistence.
first thing we looking to build our capacity with your Network in the interfaith coexistence . and we work with youth in Madaba and Middle Badeah about peace and non-violence .