ACT Holds an Awareness Workshop for Women's Group about "Community Violence and Alternative Means of Conflict Resolution".

In cooperation with the Mada Silwan Center and with the participation of advocate Mohamed Hadia, activist Rima Dweik and activits Hayat Baydoun, ACT holds an awareness workshop for women's group about "Community Violence and Alternative Means of Conflict Resolution". The workshop was managed by Ms. Sahar Al-Abbasi. The workshop reviewed violence that conquered the Holy City during the past period, and the reasons and motives behind them. It also reviewed some cases and issues that led to the threat of civil peace, and the importance of alternative means such as arbitration and mediation to resolve disputes and to reduce the increasing rate of violence and the rule of law to achieve the desired justice. The workshop also promotes the importance of women's participation in the positive impact of social change that rejects violence based on the principles of equality and freedom, starting with families and schools. Moreover, it highlights the importance of empowering women to play their original role as a key partner in creating a future where there is wider space for people’s security and protection of vulnerable groups. At the end, the workshop showed the need to complement responsibility as partners in the future, and to focus on educating women about rejecting violence, since it as a threatening social factor of civil peace.