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IREX Europe is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organisation providing innovative programmes to improve the quality of education, strengthen independent media, foster pluralistic civil society development, and reduce conflict. The IREX Europe approach emphasizes partnerships with local development organisations to expand capacity, build sustainable institutions and affect change through training, partnerships, education, research and grant programmes. ... Learn more about IREX Europe.

Recent News

- Interactive Theatre for Peace in Somailand

IREX Europe trainers Steve Grihault and Neil McCafferty work with our Hargeisa based partner KOW Media Corporation as local theatre professionals continue a tour of Somaliland.

- 27 Kenyans and Somalis Complete Conflict Mitigation Training of Trainers in Mombasa

27 Kenyan and Somali men and women have completed a six day training of trainers (TOT) in Majengo district, Mombasa (Kenya) in Drama for Conflict Transformation (DCT) techniques. They now have the skills to work as youth leaders using DCT to help foster peaceful dialogue and discussion on issues of conflict and tension in their communities.

- Theatre for Peace Activities continue in Kenya after project end

Young Somalis continue to run youth clubs and work with Drama For Conflict Transformation to try to foster peace and tolerance in the refugee camps of Dadaab, Kenya, and in the Nairobi slum of Eastleigh even though our project has now ended.

- Hargeisa Film, Photo, and Art Festival

The Interactive Theatre for Peace Project announces the first ever Film, Photo, and Art Festival to promote Peace and Reconciliation in the Horn of Africa, to take place in Hargeisa, Somalialand from 27th February – 1st March, 2012.

- Somali youth lead community street theatre performances

Following training from IREX Europe, Somali youth have led street theatre performances and discussions around important communities issues, including domestic violences, forced marriage, migration and refugee issues, drug abse, FGM, and girl’s education.

- Czech Deputy Foreign Minister Impressed by EHU Students

Government officials from the Czech Republic met with students and leaders of the European Humanities University, engaging students about the challenges they face as students from a repressive country studying at a university in a free and democratic one. The delegation was particularly interested in EHU’s media programs, which provide students with an opportunity to study journalism and learn media skills in a state-of-the-art production facility.

- EHU Emedia hub goes online

The European Humanitarian University (EHU) Media and Communication’s department has launched the Emediahub, highlighting its new, modern journalism education focusing on television journalism and production, radio, print, and modern multimedia journalism.

- Youth Films Open Corridor for Community Dialogue in Yemen

Abdul wakes up early every morning to buy fresh eggs. He then boils them before going out selling the eggs to shop keepers and passersby, offering a tasty and healthy breakfast snack at a low price. 10 year old Abdul Rahman is one of many young Yemenis who have improvised a living through selling goods on the streets.

- Theatre for Peace Project trains 100 Somali youth in Nairobi

IREX Europe and its partner organization the Somali Aid Foundation engage 100 vulnerable Somali youth – helping them discuss and confront the challenges they face as refugees and to resist the efforts of extremists to recruit them back into the ongoing Somali conflict. In February 2011, the first of two youth trainings were held in Eastleigh, taking 100 young people through a series of DCT exercises.

- Georgian CSOs learn fundamentals of media monitoring

Representatives of 6 Georgian Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs and the Central Election Commission of Georgia participated in two one-week training sessions led by the prominent media monitoring agency Memo 98 and partner organization IREX Europe

- League of Arab States Honours IREX Europe partner

IREX Europe project partner Youth Leadership Development Foundation (YLDF) has been honoured as among the ten most effective youth initiatives in the Arab region by the League of Arab States. At the recent Arab Economic, Development and Social Summit in Egypt, the League of Arab Youth Forum saluted YLDF for its valuable contribution to supporting youth and youth empowerment policies in Yemen.

- Somali Communities Theatre for Peace project begins in Kenya

Our community, including the elders, welcome your project in Eastleigh as it wants to bring peace and understanding among our youth," stated a community leader during a launching event in Eastleigh, the impoverished Somali suburb of Nairobi.

- Using theatre to promote peace and stability in Somaliland

A team of Somali actors and musicians is near to completing a month long road show throughout Somaliland that works to bring a message of peace and stability in one of the world’s most troubled regions.

- A Film for Peace

IREX Europe’s documentary “In Search of Freedom” has been preselected by the international festival “A Film For Peace”. The film was shown to over 90,000 Bangladeshis in rural villages using a “mobile cinema” and was followed by discussion sessions on these issues and the compatibility of democracy and Islam.

- Launch of the Lebanese Youth Community Action Network

More than 200 young Lebanese joined the British Ambassador to Lebanon, H.E. Frances Guy, and other dignitaries to celebrate the Youth Community Empowerment Program and mark the launch of the Youth Community Action Network. The network, known as YouthCAN, will build on the program’s strengthening of youth-focused civil society organizations.

- Yemeni Youth Develop Filmmaking Skills to Address Extremism

Little-discussed topics in Yemen are about to see wider dialogue through creative film projects by the country’s youth. Films will address complex issues that can contribute to radicalism—including globalization, anti-Westernism, modernization, alienation, and community disadvantage.

- Yemeni Project Coordinator Stimulates Youth Dialogue through Film

When Ashwaq Anbar first arrived for civil-society and leadership trainings—organized by IREX Europe and its partner Youth Leadership Development Foundation (YLDF)—in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a, her fellow trainees were not sure what to make of her. Although her family comes from the conservative tribal area of Arhab, she was not wearing a veil across her face. Instead, she wore only a scarf covering her hair.

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IREX Europe assists in the development of nations and peoples by providing services, programs, infrastructure and technologies that improve the quality of education, strengthen independent media, foster pluralistic civil society development, and reduce conflict.

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