Peace through dialogue among youth

The Project of Peace through dialogue among Youth is one of the projects that it implemented by Improve Your society Organization (IYSO) in Taiz city during the period from February 1, 2017 to January 31, 2018, with the support of the National Endowment for Democracy NED in under of the war in Yemen, this project came to be the first project that brings young people together at one table to discuss the challenges facing Taiz city and to know their views on those challenges as well as their perceptions of solutions to the problems that were discussed during a series of activities represented in dialogue sessions and youth debates.

The goal of the project was to promote peace and conflict management through dialogue between youth, where the program included a set of activities. In the first phase, the capacities of 20 young activists were built on (effective skills in leadership, dialogue, negotiation and facilitation of dialogues, analytical thinking skills in managing Conflicts, improving the use of social media in conflict resolution and peace building, then in the second phase, the trained youth implemented and facilitated 10 dialogue sessions and debates with other youth, with the participation of personalities from official and non-official bodies in Taiz city .

One of the outputs of this project is a youth vision document on the social, economic and political challenges in Taiz city.