Conflict Resolution

Preventing conflict and mitigating violence requires engaging citizens at local levels in community peacebuilding, strengthening connections between civil society actors, ensuring the spread of objective and balanced news and information, and promoting citizen-government collaboration.

Understanding that conflict mitigation is not an activity but an ongoing process, IREX addresses issues of conflict around the world by assisting youth and community leaders at a grassroots level to facilitate dialogue and strengthen community ties, building the capacity of civil society actors to address conflict locally and nationally, and bringing citizens and marginalized groups into the peacebuilding process.

IREX’s current programs train youth to develop their communities while bringing together opposing groups, help media to promote tolerance and nonviolence while ensuring citizens have access to objective information and news, and encourage greater advocacy and involvement by civil society in formal and informal peacebuilding initiatives.