The Lebanese National Consultation for Preventing Violent Extremism |
This is a call for interest to the CSO who would like to be part of the national consultation regarding Preventing Violent Extremism which will take place across nine workshops held throughout 2019, designed to engage a cross section of Lebanese society in the development of a national action plan to prevent the spread of extremist ideas. This national action plan will seek to address the wide range of economic and social conditions that allow extremism to breed including a lack of economic opportunities, perceptions of inequality and a lack of trust.
Selected CSOs will participate in orientation and training activities in the preparation for the 2nd workshop of the national consultation around the topic Justice, human rights and rule of law:
-Protecting human rights
Selected CSOs will participate in orientation and training activities in the preparation for the 2nd workshop of the national consultation around the topic Justice, human rights and rule of law:
-Protecting human rights
- Disseminating the Culture of Human Rights among society members.
- Protecting, integrating and empowering disadvantaged and marginalized groups
-Developing and modernizing the relevant institutional frameworks for the protection of human rights and justice
- Global institutional capacity building as regards to protecting Human Rights and Justice
- Reforming and improving the Penitentiary System
- Preserving the preeminence of the Rule of Law.
- Raise citizens’ awareness about the Rule of Law and the legal and institutional networks of accountability and responsibility.
- Safeguard the independence of the Judiciary and increase its institutional efficiency in a modernized regulatory framework.
Disclaimer: The information shared in this survey is confidential and will be reviewed solely by the British Council and the PVE unit in order to map out participants to the relevant sectoral workshop.