Cure Violence rises to No. 10 spot on list of top global NGOs
Cure Violence is ranked 10th in NGO Advisor’s 2018 report of the Top 500 NGOs in …
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Syria
In 2015, Cure Violence began a partnership with Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP) and a coalition of Syrian civil society organizations that has as goals to promote a peaceful Syria, to provide training and related support to individuals and organizations from Syria in civilian protection and to train Syrian community leaders using the Cure Violence interruption methodologies.
In 2013, Cure Violence trained over 100 participants in conflict mediation, behavior change, and norm change. Over 70% of the participants reported using the Cure Violence methodology to interrupt violence in their hometowns within three months of the trainings. New trainings and programming are being planned for 2018.
Iraq
Cure Violence implemented a program in Iraq from 2008 to 2013. It was implemented through partners in five sites – three in Basrah and two sites in Sadr City-Baghdad. The program resulted in close to 1,000 interruptions and over 14,000 people reached through outreach activities.
The partnership utilized personal relationships, presence in Iraq and cultural familiarity and Cure Violence’s innovative methods of reducing urban violence – specifically our approach of using credible messengers who are not representatives of the authorities but are respected in their neighborhoods and have clout with potentially violent elements. In Iraq, these credible messengers are people with the right connections in the religious, tribal and ethnic communities as the violence facing Iraqi communities is largely inter-tribal, inter-militia, sectarian or domestic.
West Bank
A network of individuals have been trained in Cure Violence methodologies in Hebron, Nablus, Jenin, Bethlehem and E. Jerusalem. Several dozen interruptions of violence have taken place within months of the training.
