Madaba for Supporting Development motivates youth people and serves society, strengthens individuals abilities and skills and creates the partnerships in Middle East and world to prevent conflicts and reduce disputes of different types, consequently having a better future for the coming generations, preventing disputes to be occurred among unlike religious followers and confirm applying international and local human rights and small arms conventions throughout the following assumptions:
The right to live in peace:
Madaba for Supporting Development settles the principle of living peacefully for humanity and enjoying a safe physical, religious and psychological life away from all violence manners, whether physical or psychological.
This was achieved through a variety of courses, workshops and conferences that it holds at schools, communities and universities for students, Woman , teachers and activists from civil society organizations on violence alternatives to provide a safe environment and security for all.
These programs can be managed through:
1- Schools of education:
Schools provide the fertile ground for violence among students, Madaba for Supporting Development creates the different plans and programs concerned with reducing violence among students since 2006 up to date and have a focus on training the violent students the strategies of reducing violence, its alternatives into schools and mechanisms to move away through different skills that the foundation staff train on, as well as the foundation cooperates with instruction and administrative bodies to put a training programs to educate them about disputes resolutions skills and classroom direction through programs related with (physical violence alternatives at schools).
2- Civil society institutions:
Madaba for Supporting Development works coordinately with local civil society institutions, universities and schools to study violence reasons among students and youth people in general, the mechanism of reduction taking into consideration its alternatives and social Customs and traditions influence to restrict its diffusion, whether armed violence or another, foundation also trained the youth aged of (18-25) for -those activists from all over the kingdom especially marginalized areas that pass through the poverty and unemployment- to decrease violence effects .
3- Government and parliament:
Madaba for Supporting Development is actively involved with governmental agencies such as Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, public security and the parliament to study the legislations and legal procedures adopted by the government to reduce violence phenomenon among the various society groups, especially the forced violence which was on rise during the last few years. Madaba for Supporting Development –through advocacy campaigns cooperated with civil society institutions and universities – successfully urged the government to reconsider the law of arms and ammunition of 1952, it also submitted a proposal for setting up a new law discussed these days by technicians, it urged the Jordanian government to sign the international convention for reducing arms abuse which has been called for by the World Campaign, as the arms use in Jordan related with tribal dimensions referring back to those inherited traditions of having the arms.
Madaba for Supporting Development believes that the just and everlasting peace can be achieved only by applying the principles of justice and equality of rights and applying the just international law too, it also sustains all of the activities and trainings that contribute to create a generation believes in just peace away from terrorism and extremism. Next generations have the right to live freely and peacefully, so foundation encourages those works contribute to create the opportunities to the youth worldwide to visit each other in order to break the barriers and to be acquainted with the customs and traditions that promote love and peace spirit including being free of fears from the other.
These will com through educating youth about human security, human rights and sustainable human development.