Expatriate Community
Dialogues Overview
Exiles, émigrés
and refugees from areas of oppression, conflict, and war
may live in intentional isolation from one another and
keep alive historic grievances and aspirations. Others
may seek to positively resolve conflicts in their communities
here and "at home." This Project supports those
expatriates able to risk cross-community collaboration
to overcome intimidation and powerlessness, decrease polarization,
and work on behalf of a just peace in their countries.
The Project utilizes the following activities,
depending upon events "at home" :
- facilitated dialogue meetings
- interactive "problem-solving workshops"
- cross-community activities and
- collaboration with an award winning playwright
to use theater to process the trauma of the war
Most of the work is off-the-record and
is initiated by community members themselves.
The current project supports a Haitian-American
Community Dialogue.
Past dialogue projects supported communities
from Sri Lanka and from the Balkans.
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