COEXISTENCE

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COEXISTENCE

• The work that is necessary to ensure that groups
  live together peacefully, equitably and
  productively.

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COEXISTENCE

• Core values
• Diversity is embraced for its positive potential
• Human dignity
• Interdependence between groups
• Equality is valued and actively pursued
• Use of weapons to address conflicts is
  increasingly obsolete

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COEXISTENCE

• Coexistence refers to intergroup relations.
• Intergroup might mean between ethnic, religious
  or linguistic groups. Within or between borders.
  Between men and women. Between government and the
  citizenry.

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COEXISTENCE

• Sri Lanka
• Iraq
• The Netherlands
• United States
• Israel

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COEXISTENCE

• Similar terms for work with a shared mission
  include
• conflict prevention
• peacebuilding
• conflict transformation
• reconciliation
• multicultural and diversity work.

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WHY A COEXISTENCE LENS?

• Looking at a situation through the lens of
  coexistence helps us to pay attention, and
  respond to, issues of minority/majority,
  inclusion and exclusion, participation,
  marginalization, access to resources.