The Moaad Center focuses on combating violence in the Arab society of Israel. The lethal reality of all forms of violence and crime has become a strategic threat and casts its dark shadow on the very right to live and on all prospects of a viable and healthy society, economical development, equality in rights and opportunities, relations with the Jewish majority. All stakeholders, new and existing forces - civil society, mayors, police, government ministries, the educational system, religious leaders, academia, business people, funders - all of us need to develop a synergy, a joint strategy which has practical impact on the ground. We are determined to reduce violence in all possible ways.
Towards that end we are here to:
1. Establish, coordinate and motivate effective taskforces and designated coalitions of all parties.
2. Develop and implement programs, activities, training, seminars, workshops.
3. Recruit all potential collaborators, actors, supporters, funders into this effort
4. Foster new and innovative intervention programs initiated by our programs' participants.
5. Initiate public awareness campaigns culminating in a new public discussion
6. Involve wider circles of the Arab community in the human rights discourse
7. Facilitate a breakthrough by creating meeting points between tradition and religious culture on one hand, and democracy, rule of law, mediation and civil action on the other hand.
8. Become an address and a source of knowledge and information regarding the issue
Programs related to Israeli Arabs
1. Creating Municipal Task Forces - The project establishes local task forces for combating violence, with the participation of mayors, heads of municipal services, government agencies, partner organizations, police, Imams, educators, volunteers. Each coalition will study, develop and implement programs in the community.
2. A bi-monthly training seminar for public leaders, task force professionals and other stakeholders, including training on modern and traditional mediation, human rights theory and practice, state penal code, Shari'ite law, intervention strategies, criminology and sociology, meetings with Human Rights organizations and other intervention centers.
3. Supervision and support of new initiatives are part of our mandate. The participants will assume specific responsibilities and become essential members of the local coalitions. Our team provides supervision and support of field work.
4. Media address - initiating events and opportunities for media coverage. The project's initiators have already had media exposure and specific willingness of media agencies to provide ongoing reporting on the project.
5. An ongoing think tank and meeting point for experts - A committee of academics, religious scholars, mediators and program developers, meeting on a bimonthly basis.
6. Publications - collating, editing and publishing of theoretical and practical materials.
