The Arab Center for Democracy and Peace Studies

National Network
Jordan
Address

P. O. Bos 140178 Amman 11814 Jordan
Amman
Jordan

Telephone
00 962 79 5428158
Fax
00 962 6 5814402
E-Mail
abukarim@hotmail.com
Organisation Type
Public/Private Non-Profit Foundation
Year of Establishment
2004
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Heritage
  3. International/Cultural relations
  4. Research
  5. Youth and education
General Information
The center is a privately owned company working as a non-profit organization and is funded per project by donor organizations. Main activities is preparation of studies currently working on a project about future Jordanian Palestinian relationship.
Mission and Objectives

To promote cross - cultural dialogue and understanding among different notions. Center will assume a proactive role in creating opportunity for people to meet, interact and exchange knowledge.

Main Projects / Activities

Study on future Jordanian Palestinian Relations. (Underway)

Contact (1) Full Name
Eng. Fakhry Abu Shakra
Head of the organisation
Eng. Fakhry Abu Shakra

LEONARDO Film & Theatre (Sweden)

National Network
Sweden
Address

Erik Dahlbergsgatan 19, S-411 26 Göteborg
Göteborg
Sweden

Telephone
+46 (0)31 - 832054
Telephone (other)
+46 (0)411 - 526225 (summer)
Fax
+46 (0)706 - 168629
E-Mail
leo.cullborg@telia.com
Mobile Phone
+46 (0)705 - 898629
Mobile Phone (other)
+20 (0)10 - 3827967
Organisation Type
Private Company
Year of Establishment
1989
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Democracy and community development
  3. International/Cultural relations
  4. Media
  5. Research
  6. Youth and education
General Information
1. Theatre production-company. Employed persons: 2 2. Budget varies. Turnover approx SEK 1 million 3. No funding. 4. a/ Theatre education-project in Alexandria, Egypt b/ Theatre production; script and direction c/ A documentary-film on the Egyptian project (un -financed) 5. SIDA(Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) and The Gothenburg Opera house
Mission and Objectives

Through cultural and educational projects create a deepened
dialogue between Europe and the Arab-
world.

Main Projects / Activities

The three mentioned and ongoing projects are the main projects.

Contact (1) Full Name
Leo Cullborg
Head of the organisation
Leo Cullborg

Museum of Forgetting

National Network
Sweden
Address

Tvåbackarbrinken 2
602 28 Norrköping
Sweden

Telephone
+46 73 656 92 88
E-Mail
erik.berggren@liu.se
E-Mail (2)
kosec@isak.liu.se
Mobile Phone
+46 73 656 92 88
Organisation Type
Public Institution
Year of Establishment
2007
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
General Information
The Museum of Forgetting is a space for reflection, debate and exhibition of contemporary issues with a focus on social, political and cultural forgetfulness. By borrowing the name of ”The Museum” we adopt a critical approach to the construction of collective memories, and highlight its unavoidable costs, and revenues, in terms of forgetting. We work voluntarily and all our revenues and stipends are going back to cultural producers which we engage, as we are a strict non-profit operation, and also because we are a nomadic cultural initiative. We have no fixed costs inbetween our events and exhibitons but have managed with the help of surrounding sponsors and supporters to borrow abandoned industrial spaces for our arrangements and mobilize workers and skills that we need for each occassion. At this point our movements and our changing contours and constellations have become our signum.
Mission and Objectives

Our projects, exhibitions and events, are not tied to any one traditional form of expression or genre, but come together in the ambition to look critically at contemporary issues in the crossfire between memory and forgetting.
The project started out from an ambition to look critically at the way the dominant media organisations dealt with the Iraq War. We placed the light on the absence of historical reflection and lack of deliberate articulated thought on future consequences within medias coverage. They, possibly out of an ambition to be impartial and objective, choose most of all to transmit NEWS in the present, i.e. reporting on details from the ongoing war. Yet, the innumerable amounts of details, deaths, bombs and so forth became increasingly difficult to fit into an overarching narrative, an understanding, any understanding, of the events. It is as if medias coverage most of all contributed to the thickening of the "fog of war". This later changed and a more sober phase entered with more of historical reflection and critical reporting.
This is how we started out with several discussions, events and art exhibitions. From this point we have moved on to raise questions about memory and forgetfullness in relation to gender, America, multiculturalism, private vs public etc.
Our next project will be an art exhibition showing Cartoons from Arabic countries. Our ambition is to highlight something that was completely forgotten in the so called Cartoon crisis, namely the long and rich tradition of Arabic satirical cartoons and drawings. The works will be exhibited in Beirut and Norrköping at the same time, as well as electronically, synchronized, on two different websites of major newspapers in Sweden and in Libanon.

Main Projects / Activities

Art exhibition: "Lets have another war.
Art exhibition: "Our Broken American Hearts"
Photography, Sculpture: "If God was a Woman"
Group exhibition, senior art-students: "Private Parts"
Open art hall for amateurs: "3m3 of Fame"
Movie evening "Falluja - reporting and resistance" "Control Room" and "Caught in Crossfire"
"The Forgettingmachine" a round-table with leading Swedish intellectuals on the war, the space for resistance and the element of forgetting.
See details on our website.

Contact (1) Full Name
Erik Berggren

Comune di Recanati - Ufficio Servizi Sociali (Municipality of Recanati - Department of Social Services)

National Network
Italy
Address

Piazza Leopardi, 26 - 62019 Recanati (MC)
Recanati
Italy

Telephone
+39 0717587305
Telephone (other)
+39 0717587200
Fax
+30 0717587238
E-Mail
giorgio.foglia@comune.recanati.mc.it
E-Mail (2)
segretariatosociale@comune.recanati.mc.it
Organisation Type
Local/Regional Authority
Fields of Activity
  1. Democracy and community development
  2. Environment/Sustainable development
  3. Gender
General Information
Public body with n. 129 public servants.
Mission and Objectives

Welfare & Education

Main Projects / Activities

Intercultural education and services, social support to families and individuals with economic and psychological difficulties, psychological support to victims of gender-based violence, social housing, support to disabled people.

Contact (1) Full Name
Dirigente Dott. Giorgio Foglia
Head of the organisation
Francesco Fiordomo
Contact (2) Full Name
Dott.ssa Anna Maria Montironi

Ung Teater i Täby (Young Theatre in Taby)

National Network
Sweden
Address

Attundafältet 12
183 34 TÄBY
Sweden

Telephone
+46-8-55559780
Telephone (other)
+46-730225641
E-Mail
ungteater@taby.se
Organisation Type
Local/Regional Authority
Year of Establishment
1990
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Democracy and community development
  3. Gender
  4. International/Cultural relations
  5. Media
  6. Youth and education
General Information
1. We are part of the township of Täby. We are six in the staff. We have 500 youth in groups. We have a branch in the town of Norrtälje. We are funded by the township. We have done a couple of exchanges with Denmark, Germany, Finland & Spain, since a few years we are involved with activities in Tunisia and are discussing a "Year of Intercultural Dialogue" project with Portugal
Mission and Objectives

Youth Culture.
Encouraging youth.
All other issues are incorporated into this - giving the youth in Taby a democratic, open-minded, outwardlooking push to become what they are capable of.

Main Projects / Activities

Teaching youth theatre in groups. Teaching in school.
Cultural projects. Exchanges.

Contact (1) Full Name
Linda Goncalves

Insamlingsstiftelsen Seglora smedja (Seglora smedja Foundation)

National Network
Sweden
Address

Box 22 318
s-104 22 Stockholm
Sweden

Stockholm
Sweden

Telephone
0046 73 215 09 19
E-Mail
ewa@seglorasmedja.se
E-Mail (2)
helle@seglorasmedja.se
Organisation Type
Public/Private Non-Profit Foundation
Year of Establishment
2008
Fields of Activity
  1. Religion
General Information
Seglora smedja foundation is a theological think-tank that was established in 2008. At present Seglora smedja has one staff employed and one working on a voulontary basis. The budgetary resources of the foundation is approximately 35 000 Euro per year 2009-2011. At present our main partners involved in our activities is Church of Sweden, Sensus and Skansen Foundation.
Mission and Objectives

The main focus of Seglora smedja foundation is to stimulate diversity in church and society through dialogue and exchange between people with different religious backgrounds and people in the political, religious and cultural field in society.

Main Projects / Activities

The Seglora smedja foundation runs a website and a arrange workshops, seminars and conferences. We publish books böcker and arrange courses. The Seglora smedja foundation also stimulates liturgical development and aims to stimulate democratic values in Christian worship.

Contact (1) Full Name
Ewa Lindqvist Hotz
Head of the organisation
Helle Klein
Contact (2) Full Name
Helle Klein

Miljonkulturell Ungdom

National Network
Sweden
Address

Grindsgatan 33, 118 57 Stockholm - Sweden
Stockholm
Sweden

Telephone
+46 (0) 739728585
E-Mail
tina@miljonkultur.se
Organisation Type
Other
Fields of Activity
  1. Others
General Information
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Mission and Objectives

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Main Projects / Activities

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Contact (1) Full Name
Tina Vikor

Peace Quest (chairperson)

National Network
Sweden
Address

Lundagatan 56
Stockholm
Sweden

Telephone
+46-704061812
E-Mail
anna.hay@hotmail.com
E-Mail (2)
se.board@peacequest.eu
Mobile Phone
+46-704061812
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1983
Fields of Activity
  1. Democracy and community development
  2. Human rights
  3. International/Cultural relations
  4. Youth and education
General Information
Budget: 2,300,000 SEK (2005) - Membership fees, National board of Youth affairs, Forum Syd, Ministry of Foreign affairs, Folke Bernadotte’s foundation - Youth projects together with organisations from Israel/Palestine, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Latvia, Belarus, Colombia, Cambodia, Zambia and Sri Lanka. Education for youths in Sweden in conflict resolution, human rights. - Next stop New life, Belarus. Asociación Colombiana de Estudiantes Universitarios, Colombia. Youth Partners in Development.
Mission and Objectives

To work for human rights and peace globally through contacts, projects and exchanges with youths from abroad.
To foster understanding and interest in a change to the better in daily life/society through education for youths in conflict resolution, human rights and non-violence.

Main Projects / Activities

Youth projects together with organisations from Israel/Palestine, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Latvia, Belarus, Colombia, Cambodia, Zambia and Sri Lanka. Education for youths in Sweden in conflict resolution, human rights.

Contact (1) Full Name
Anna Hay

association diaa d'éducation et formation

National Network
Morocco
Address

centre de l'Entraide National Al majd 38, quartier Al majd
Safi
Morocco

Telephone
+212664842350
Telephone (other)
+212630441718
E-Mail
adefmaroc@gmail.com
E-Mail (2)
boukmourad2005@hoatmail.com
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2007
Fields of Activity
  1. Youth and education
General Information
l'adef est une ONG partenaire de l'Entraide National et qui gère deux centres de formation ainsi elle a 46 membres et 4 autres partenaires administratifs et Etatiques qui financent nos activités. l'adef a réalisée des projets de formations profetionnelles pour les jeunes depuis sa création.
Mission and Objectives

la formation profetionnelle, des projets intercultirels, la democracie et la bonne gouvernace, l'éducation informelle et le developpement durable.

Main Projects / Activities

la formation au developpement informatique, l'analphabetisme, éducation informelle, l'integration aux droits, la formation des filles et femmes dans des metiers rentables, seminaires, forumes...

Contact (1) Full Name
mourad elboukili
Head of the organisation
mourad elboukili
Contact (2) Full Name
saida tahiri

gaza agricultural cooperative

National Network
Palestine
Telephone
97082478640
Fax
9702478630
E-Mail
gaza_co@hotmail.com
E-Mail (2)
dam3a6670@hotmail.com
Mobile Phone
970599465836
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1975
Fields of Activity
  1. Environment/Sustainable development
General Information
Consisting of the Executive Director and Vice President and staff accredited and receive funding self where she works in the field of agriculture and community development through export operations abroad and there are several projects were implemented, such as food security project and supports education for poor families and are also funded small-scale farmers
Mission and Objectives

Producing and marketing the vegetable to local and external markets , provide the member facilities and help in order to cultivate their land , Land Reclamation and develop the agriculture techniques.

Main Projects / Activities

1 - Self funded Projects:-
- The cooperative has been established a building in 1999 with an area of 570 square meters, consist of the basement floor and the ground floor, which it cost about 157 thousand dollars.
- A station for sorting and packaging the cash crops products was build in 1999 , which it cost about 110 thousand dollars.
- Rehabilitation of 12 farmers to obtain the Global GAP certification which cost 44 thousand dollars.
- Compensate strawberry farmers with 57 thousand dollars for the losses in the past export season (2011-2012).
- Establishment of the Cooperative society first floor which it cost 63 thousand dollars.
- land rehabilitation for 10 Ha in the Buffer zone regain which it cost 18 thousand dollars
-Finishing the last steps in the project of cooperative society building with corporations with save the children NGO ,total cost about 55,000 $ with cooperative society contribution about 15% .

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

Through joint work with local organizations, international organizations and activating the common goal between organizations and through also involve all civil work organizations

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

The development of the institution's work with international institutions and find ways to fund foreign

Contact (1) Full Name
ahmad fouad el shafai
Head of the organisation
ahmad fouad el shafaie