WORKSHOP: MINORITIES SHAPING PEACE
Date: 24 October 2025
Time: 1 PM – 2:30 PM (CEST)
Co-organizers: 'NEVER AGAIN' Association, Minorities for Peace
Join us for an interactive online workshop focusing on the role minorities play in peacebuilding. This session will showcase grassroots initiatives and provide actionable tools to promote peace.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about contributions of minorities to peacebuilding and security;
- Explore innovative methodologies and tools for engaging minorities in peacebuilding;
- Collaborate with grassroots minority leaders to co-create recommendations for advancing minority rights in peace processes.
Moderator:
Jaspreet Singh, Co-Founder & Advocacy Strategist, ICAAD, UN OHCHR Minority Fellow alum, USA.
Speakers:
- Grace Elias, Lebanese University, Maronite minority representative, UN OHCHR Minority Fellow alumna, Lebanon,
- Monika Biswas, Bangladesh SCM, Christian minority representative, UN OHCHR Minority Fellow alumna, Bangladesh,
- Rina Muhaj, Independent Consultant, Albanian minority representative, UN OHCHR Minority Fellow alumna, Montenegro,
- Eugenia Canau, Mindfulness Africa, Buddhist minority representative, UN OHCHR Minority Fellow alumna, South Africa.
Special contribution by Patricia Garcia, Partnership Development Manager of the Institute for Economics and Peace, Australia, and UN OHCHR Minority Fellow alumni Faisal Ilyas of Peace Hope Pakistan and Natalia Sineaeva of ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association and Minorities for Peace from Poland.
