The miracle of Christianity in Georgia The Georgian brand of Christianity is distinctive, and it is popular. The Georgian Orthodox Church (GOC) is one of fourteen autocephalous (independent) churches in the Eastern Orthodox family of churches, and occupies a prominent position in Eastern Orthodox hierarchy: second-most senior of the Junior Patriarchates, the second tier of … Continued
As part of the project RESOLVE: Social Action, one of our participants, Nabeeda Bakali will be running a series of online skills-development sessions in the coming weeks, between August 3rd and August 24th, as part of her project ‘Talent Accelerate’. The first of these sessions will be at 5pm (UK time) on Monday, August 3rd … Continued
The RESOLVE: New Youth Order London Dialogue Activity provides an opportunity for young people to engage with decision-makers on a local, national and international basis to share their thoughts, opinions and participate in democratic practices. As a RESOLVE programme, it will mobilise a range of reconciliation and peacebuilding techniques to achieve this including: People to … Continued
The RESOLVE: New Youth Order Online Dialogue Activity provides an opportunity for young people to engage with decision-makers on a local, national and international basis to share their thoughts, opinions and participate in democratic practices. As a RESOLVE programme, this Online Dialogue Activity will mobilise a range of reconciliation and peacebuilding techniques to achieve this including: … Continued
Interested in leading your own social action project? Would you like to be responsible for a social action project budget and make decisions on how it is spent? The RESOLVE: Social Action programme wishes to provide an opportunity for UK Resolvers (former Erasmus+ RESOLVE programme participants) and peer young people to become a Lead in … Continued
In the framework of the Erasmus+ RESOLVE New Youth Order project Asfar is organising the first Online RESOLVE Network meeting. If you have participated in any RESOLVE projects (RESOLVE: East, RESOLVE: Reconciliation through Youth, RESOLVE: Play, RESOLVE: Sport or RESOLVE: West join us for the first joint RESOLVE: Network meeting on Friday, 22nd May at … Continued
Asfar has started the implementation of the Erasmus+ RESOLVE: New Youth Order project and the first Online Digital Activity. RESOLVE: New Youth Order, provides an opportunity for young people to engage with decision-makers on a local, regional, national, EU, and international-basis to share their thoughts, opinions and participate in democratic practices. As a RESOLVE programme, … Continued
Asfar is now recruiting for European Solidarity Corps volunteers for RESOLVE: Volunteer 4 Peace (UK applicants only). Asfar currently has 4 fully funded volunteering placements in Sarajevo, Bosnia-i-Herzegovina and Baku, Azerbaijan as part of our RESOLVE European Solidarity Corps programmes for anyone from the UK aged 18 to 30. RESOLVE: Volunteer 4 Peace is … Continued
Asfar has just released the Erasmus+ RESOLVE: East Reconciliation for Development Youth Exchange e-Film! Celebrating young peoples’ journey as they develop their reconciliation and peacebuilding skills, life skills, leadership and intercultural skills, while meeting their peers from different countries and launching the youth-wing of the RESOLVE: Network.
Asfar has just released the Erasmus+ RESOLVE: East Social Action e-Film! Celebrating Resolvers’ journey and achievements as they design, plan and organise their own community social action and manage the youth-wing of the RESOLVE: Network. To watch the film, visit – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ_jN-Ev5X8&t=3s
Asfar’s latest edition of the e-Journal, a range of articles and creative pieces focusing on the Middle East, the Islamic world, the Balkans and the Caucasus and beyond. Asfar would like to thank all contributors who have been involved in the December 2018 edition of the e-Journal. And especially would like to thank and welcome … Continued
Welcome to the latest edition of the Asfar e-journal, a collection of works celebrating diversity, cross-cultural knowledge, and a celebration of commonalities over differences. I write this post on the one hundredth anniversary of the armistice of World War One, the calamity that took millions of lives and created the conditions for the rise of … Continued
The Islamic world occupied the seat of learning in a number of disciplines such as science, mathematics, engineering, and religion for a number of centuries (Nanji, 2006). Paper, one of the most frequently used materials in present-day life, was invented in China presumably as early as the 2nd century BCE (Bloom and Blair, 2009). According … Continued
It is revolutionary: an innovative possibility to share different views, learn from each other, and better understand different perspectives, a young Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange participant explained. Since 1987, when the Erasmus project started, 9 million people have taken part in it, according to data collected by the European Commission. It might be considered … Continued
Erasmus+ RESOLVE:EAST is a reconciliation youth exchange & network programme, which aims to use the power of Conflict Resolution tools such as Simulation Games, Sport for Peace and wider reconciliation tools and learning to resolve local and community-level conflicts which especially affects young people today. So 3 of the 4 youth exchange dates have now … Continued
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