What We Do?

Building Bridges, Shaping Peace.

CPDC’s work concentrates on 4 key thematic areas. These are policy, grassroots dialogue and cultural reconciliation, cross-community civil society networking, and economy and commerce.

Policy

● Establish small group meetings and workshops to discuss and identify salient policy obstacles regarding reunification/ reaching a comprehensive settlement.

● Undertake a lessons-learned activity regarding past peace negotiations.

● Ensure the inclusion of gender and youth considerations in a possible resumed negotiation process.

● Liaise with communities, civil society, governmental, domestic, and international institutions to understand the feasibility of policy ideas.

Grassroots Dialogue and Cultural Reconciliation

● Create and establish linkages with existing cultural initiatives centred around bi-communal participation and engagement at a community level.

● Design activities centred on cultivating a culture of peace and facilitating greater understanding and trust between communities.

● Create programmes, trainings and workshops centred on youth cross-community collaboration, organized around language education, federalism, community support projects, history education, cultural exchanges, conflict transformation and social mediation.

Cross-Community Civil Society Networking

● Provide networking opportunities and create linkages among civil society across Cyprus, including NGOs, civil society initiatives and activists.

● To devise joint initiatives and programmes to support sustainable cross-community collaboration and

strengthen CSO capacity.

● To devise communication and outreach campaigns (both in-presence and digital) that promote the benefit of cooperation and a solution to the Cyprus problem.

Economy and Commerce

● To leverage opportunities for networking, interaction, joint ventures, and lasting business relations between Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot business owners and entrepreneurs.

● To inform business people and entrepreneurs of the benefits of cooperation, including information on the Green Line Regulation, and how to improve and best utilize it.

● To organise communication and outreach campaigns, which promote the benefits relating to the economy and commerce of a unified Cyprus.

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