Mission
Generating development and innovation through culture and the arts.
Creating awareness of the value added and potential growth through culture, while establishing a new hub for cultural activity and innovative projects on a local and international level.
Objectives
To create a synergy between the cultural sector, public and private entities and the community, where culture becomes an effective and viable vehicle for economic growth and social development.
To give impetus to cultural and territorial valorization.
We believe in:
Stimulating dialogue and valuing diversity
Innovation and sustainability
Creativity and vision
Technology and economy working in synergy with culture and human values
Education and effective communication

En prenant la culture pour levier, l'AIST a pour mission d’initier, de coordonner, de planifier et d’accompagner des activités favorisant la sauvegarde, la préservation de l’environnement, la réhabilitation, la promotion du tourisme culturel et du développement socio-économique des cités méditerranéennes sœurs de Tyr. Ainsi en intervenant tant au niveau national qu’international, elle contribuera à promouvoir Tyr comme centre de rencontres, de dialogue interculturel, de la promotion de la paix et travaillera en partenariat avec différentes institutions, intéressées par les projets culturels et les objectifs qui sont : • Promouvoir la connaissance, • Concourir à la recherche historique, • Conservation et mise en valeur du patrimoine archéologique et culturel, • Contribuer à la sauvegarde du patrimoine et identification du patrimoine non protégé, • Favoriser la formation, la transmission des savoir-faire et l’insertion dans les secteurs de l’artisanat traditionnel, • Sauvegarde de l’environnement. • Mise en place de la Ligue des Cités Cananéennes, Phéniciennes et Puniques et du projet « La Route des Phéniciens ».

Following our vision of a society built on the respect of human rights, our mission is to empower local communities so as to uphold the rights of children living in Lebanon, for them to play an active role within their society and grow up in a safe environment. Following our core values of neutrality, participation, and transparency, we work on helping Palestinian refugees as well as Lebanese community to take control over the decisions affecting their lives while addressing collective needs. We aim to support children and youth who are the most at risk of dropping out from school and being neglected or mistreated in their community. We particularly focus on marginalized girls, who have restricted mobility and are being denied education, when they are not confronted with early marriages. We also try to increase women’s role in the community decision-making processes, regarding gender equality and children’s rights issues mostly.

The main idea of IPC is to bring as many different cultures together and to encourage dialogue, understanding, interest and mutual respect in a world, where tolerance is a necessity and diversity is an adventure. The study program of IPC offers a wide range of global issues and classes. We focus on Global Citizenship, Global Development and Politics, but stay independent of religious or political ideologies

Mission of the Center
The Mafraq Center strives to cultivaete daily-life skills of persons with disabilities in order for them to increase independence, to successfully integrate into society, and to generalize skills learned to life outside the center. The center works towards these goals by providing comprehensive and ability-appropriate services to children with special needs and support to families of children with disabilities. Coordinating with the Ministry of Social Development and private foundations, the center strives to empower persons with disabilities and raise awareness about disabilities within the larger community.
Center Objectives
To implement appropriate Special Education services, including academic instruction and behavior modification. To train for independence in activities of daily life, including hygiene, self-care, and eating appropriately. To provide specialized therapy targeting student needs, including speech and physical therapy. To promote the integration of persons with disabilities in the community, focusing on the ability of each student to contribute meaningfully to the larger society. To introduce students to recreational and sport activities through day-trips and organized events.

The Arab Group for Christian- Muslim Dialogue shares the firm believe in coexistence between Muslims and Christians in a society where freedom, justice, equality, and the rights of citizenship prevail. The dialogue of the “Arab Group for Christian- Muslim Dialogue” is not simply a dialogue of compatriots, it is also a dialogue among believers who perceive in this effort of theirs and applied expression of their religious principles, principles that give substance to the meaning of pluralism, mutual recognition, the unqualified dignity of the human being and the values of justice. The Arab Group for Christian- Muslim Dialogue aims to 1) enrich Christian- Muslim Relations 2) prevent tensions and conflicts 3) lead towards reconciliation, citizenship, equality and the freedom of religion. The Arab Group includes members from Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, the Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates.

CADMOS has for principal activities the organization of conferences sets of themes, conferences, seminars, forums, videoconferences, round tables, debates between the students and the actors of the civil company on topics relating to the International relations and the Right.
It organizes several summer schools in China on the following topics: respect of the humans right and requirement of safety; The question of ethics in the international relations and political decisions.
CADMOS justifies of an experiment in the following fields: social mediation with the order of Lawyers in Mexico; Round tables in Bengladesh on the violence of mass and the human rights

To instigate young creator’s productions To develop professional competences To stimulate public debates on civic issues To preserve cultural memory and participate to culture program To develop exchanges To participate in the active Euro Mediterranean culture

On January 1st 2010, the “Association Française des Volontaires du Progrès” (AFVP) created in 1963, became “France Volontaires” on the initiative of the French public authorities and associations. France Volontaires is an international platform fulfilling a role of public interest, namely that of promoting and developing the various forms of commitment falling within the scope of International Volunteering for Exchange and Solidarity (I.V.E.S.). France Volontaires is in charge of “promoting and developing the various forms of involvement (especially international volunteering). This project is carried out in a spirit of respect for the values set out in the communal charter, upheld by the organizations sending out volunteers and the volunteers themselves.” (Article 1 of the statutes).

The Foundation has the following objectives:
Promote the living together at peace, equality and freedom between the men.
Promote values of Justice, fraternity and solidarity.
Favoring divulgation of cultural reality from different confessions, to improve its knowledge by society, favoring their activity in the cultural, educational and social fields.
Contribute to the promotion of the cultural and humanistic values included in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
Participate and collaborate with institutions in the design and development of programmes and promotional actions, safeguarding and energizing of culture and heritage - tangible and intangible-, especially concerning to cultural diversity