Desert Bloom CC participated in “What’s Your Story?”, a Youth Exchange designed to tackle issues such as xenophobia, violent radicalization, extremism and racism through using storytelling as a means of prevention and countering such negative phenomena. The exchange brought together 42...

Volunteers as peace agents training course, Vienna from 24-30 May 2019 The URI MENA Regional Coordinator and the founder of Desert Bloom CCs participated in “Volunteers as Agents for Peace” training course in Vienna, Austria from 24-30 May 2019. The...

Transnational Training and Cooperation Activities I participated in in a four-day online Training Course on “Competencies of Youth Workers in Preventing Violent Radicalization and Extremism.” The project was dedicated to developing youth workers competencies in the field of preventing violent...

Preventing Youth from Radicalization Training Course, 7th -13th April 2019, Sadeen Hotel, Amman – Jordan Desert Bloom hosted a five-day intensive training course on Preventing Youth from Radicalization co-organized by URI MENA and Grenzenlos – Interkultureller Austausch (ICYE Austria). The...

URI participated in the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa 2019 The URI MENA Regional Coordinator represented URI in this important global event from 6-7 April, 2019. The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for...

Youth Work against Violent Radicalization: Competencies Development The URI Regional Coordinator for the MENA Region and the Founder of Desert Bloom CC, Mamoun Khreisat, participated in the training course, “Youth Work against Violent Radicalization: Competencies Development,” 4-9 March 2019 in...