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The Anna Lindh Review 2005-2015 The Anna Lindh Review 2005-2015 Forging a common destiny across the Mediterranean The Mediterranean region, once again at the In its first ten years, the Anna Lindh Foundation has centre of the international political agenda, is supported region-wide initiatives and campaigns in experiencing the most challenging and hazardous the fields of education, media and culture, focusing its situation of the last two decades. activities in the spaces where advocating for dialogue is more so needed. Involving thousands of NGOs in Twenty years ago, in the aftermath of the Oslo its programmes and assuming an advocacy role on Peace Accords, the European Union, most of the intercultural trends, the Foundation has become Mediterranean Arab countries, Turkey and Israel one of the most credible institutions working within jointly launched the Barcelona Process. It was the Euro-Med civil society. In the Southern and Eastern most ambitious multilateral project of cooperation the countries of the Mediterranean but also in Europe, this region had ever known, ultimately aimed at creating a very same civil society has shown a strong resilience shared space of peace, stability and prosperity. None not to accept the logic of status quo, cultural divide, of the three goals have yet been attained. Yet there violence and socially regressive trends, calling for a have been positive developments, the most significant different future based on shared democratic values among them being the awakening of civil society and mutual respect. and its renewed capacity to become a player for social change in the region. In recent years, we have In this context, the work of the Anna Lindh Foundation observed those converging demands for freedom, today, a decade on from its creation, is more dignity and justice, constituting a powerful reality. challenging and more essential than ever. For the Union for the Mediterranean whose creation, in the The founders of the Anna Lindh Foundation end, succeeded in provoking a new conversation about anticipated the centrality of civil society in working for how to construct a sustainable partnership based a common Mediterranean future. The Foundation’s on real co-ownership without double standards, the mandate for intercultural dialogue was defined not as perspective must be clear. Top-down solutions will an abstract meeting of ‘cultures’, but as a process of not work, and any union must be built on the cultural social change between human beings and individuals and aspirational convergences between the citizens with complex identities and different needs and of the Mediterranean. expectations. A bottom-up approach, based on the shared values and aspirations of the region’s citizens, and a long-term strategy to address the true causes – political, ideological and social – that have deepened and radicalised the human gap between the two André Azoulay shores of the Mediterranean. President of the Anna Lindh Foundation 3 Contents 2 Foreword 50 Regional Awards André Azoulay Euro-Med Dialogue Award Anna Lindh Journalist Award 6 Overview The People of the ALF 56 ALF Networks in Milestones and Key Figures 43 Countries A Euro-Mediterranean Network Albania, Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, 14 Making Intercultural Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, Dialogue Happen France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Education for Intercultural Citizenship Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Arts for Social Change Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Media Across Cultures Malta, Mauritania, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, the Netherlands, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, 22 Flagship Initiatives Sweden, Syria (2005-2011), Tunisia, Anna Lindh Mediterranean Forum Turkey, United Kingdom Report on Intercultural Trends 1001 Actions for Dialogue Restore Trust, Rebuild Bridges 142 Translation for the Mediterranean Governance, Management and Financing Governance and Management Anna Lindh Foundation Staff 34 Opportunities for Arab Member States Contributions Youth Allocation of Financial Resources Dawrak - Citizens for Dialogue Young Arab Voices Arab Children’s Literature 42 Grants and Resources Anna Lindh Grants Programme Handbooks and Toolkits Website Portal and Online Tools 5 Overview The People of the Anna Lindh Foundation From all the key figures provided in this review Building on the experience of the first ten years (*) about the achievements of the Anna Lindh and the expertise aquired, the Foundation now faces Foundation since its inception, the most striking the challenge to better respond to the demands of refers to the people invoved in its activities. these people. Our regional constituency is in trouble, with societies shaken by a deep social crisis in most Throughout the past ten years, thousands of women of Europe, and by uncertain and painful transitions in and men have participated in activities organised by the Southern Mediterranean. But the social reality is the Foundation and benefited from its programmes. In more complex, and as the Anna Lindh Report shows, more recent years, I met many of them. It was during in most of the countries there is a growing appettite the two Anna Lindh Fora organised in Barcelona and for discovering other realities and human exchanges. Marseille, but also, and most importantly, in attending In many societies, the social and cultural trends go in grassroot initiatives organised by the Foundation in the opposite direction than the one we receive from many places of the region. Most of them were young populist public discourse or media narratives. people. Many of them were women. All of them were citizens in search of hope, committed to the values of Making visible this paradox and leveraging the will the ALF: mutual respect, peace, freedom and human of dialogue and change existing in our societies is rights. They came to us to meet people of other the basis for an exciting role for the Foundation and countries and cultures, and to work with them for its Networks in the coming years. Let us provide the better societies. Together, they created spaces of real Foundation for the people of the Mediterranean to dialogue, and they aquired competences for making do more together. For building a Euro-Med network dialogue happen and for participating in public life. of citizens committed to democratic values and interested in building societies where social dignity These are the people of the Anna Lindh Foundation. will prevail and people may live together in diversity. The real owners of an institution whose main challenge has been to be credible and useful for all of them. (*) The achievements underlined in this review would We have succeeded reasonably. For most of them, not have been possible without the commitment and participating in one of the Foundation’s activities has enthusiasm of all the members of the different staff, been a lively experience. Working together they had my two predecesors, Executive Directors Traugott the opportunity to know each other and share the Schoefthaler and Lucio Guerrato, and without the dreams of their generation. Together, they worked for vision and resolution of President André Azoualy. making possible a future shared by people of different origins. They discussed how to make possible societies Andreu Claret where the right to participate, to decide about one’s Executive Director of the Anna Lindh Foundation self identity, would be more than a dream. Conceiving intercultural dialogue as a real exchange among women and men living on both shores of the Mediterranean has been the clue of our success. The limits of mobility have been the main obstacle for involving more people in our activities and achieving a larger impact. Many years ago, Anna Lindh herself raised this question stating that, “The most important issue we have to deal with is freedom of movement.” “I have never had such a long-lasting, effective opportunity in my life. This exchange shaped my career path. My entire organisation changed. It helped me to identify the needs and get better equipped to address them. It was a life-time experience.” Rami Shamseddine, 31 years. Twinning Exchange beneficiary from Lebanon to Slovenia 8 “To be effective intercultural dialogue must be set within a context of respect for fundamental rights, and may then also become a powerful vehicle of democratisation” High Level Group for establishing the Anna Lindh Foundation Countries where the ALF develops its activities: Albania, Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mauritania, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Syria (2005-2011), Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom Milestones 1995. The Barcelona Declaration establishes the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. 2003. High-Level Group on Intercultural Dialogue recommends the creation of a Euro-Mediterranean Foundation. 2004. Euro-Med Ministers of Foreign Affairs agree on creating the Anna Lindh Foundation. 2005. Creation of ALF National Networks. International Headquarters inaugurated in Alexandria, with the first Heads of National Networks Meeting. 2006. First ALF Call for Proposals. Launching of the Euro-Med Dialogue and Journalist Awards, and Regional Education Programme. 2007. Training for Trainers programme is rolled out
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