Projects have included:
The Young Women’s Development Groups Project (YWDG)
An intensive, rights-based extracurricular programme for teenage girls that brings international best practices on working with girls to the North Caucasus.
Peace Education and the “Power of Goodness” Project
Focused on children and youth affected by violence and trauma, supporting and training educators both from the North Caucasus and in other regions. Through guided reading of the stories in ‘Power of Goodness: Stories of Reconciliation and Nonviolence’, role plays, music and art therapy young people are learning peaceful conflict transformation, tolerance and respect.
‘Little Star’ – a psychosocial rehabilitation project set up in 1997 and employing professional local psychologists who conduct psychosocial workshops in schools and at the Chechen State University to address psychological distress and trauma caused by violence and human rights violations in Chechnya for young people and their families.
Empowering Civil Society and Promoting Human Rights and the Rule of Law in the North Caucasus
This project enables the North Caucasus region’s civil society to become stronger, more resilient and more effective as a force of change, by helping grass-roots activists and their organizations take on essential challenges – building powerful local constituencies, staying safe amid threats and resisting repressive policies, participating in regional and global human rights discourses and movements.
Daimohk
Daimohk’, meaning ‘ancestral land’ in Chechen, was a dance group comprising 28 dancers (aged 8 to 16) and five musicians from Grozny, who together performed the traditional acrobatic dances and musical mantras of their homeland. Ramzan Akhmadov, its founder, saw dance as a way to give a generation of children surrounded by violence and aggression a positive creative focus and emotional self-expression.