After a journey that began at the international train station in Baghdad, the Dialogue Knights team arrived in the city of Maqal in Basra after nearly ten hours of travel by train. The second leg of the journey begins with the Dialogue and Understanding the Other camp, which will take place in the cities of Faw, Zubair, and central Basra.
A select group of youth from Sinjar and Baghdad will participate in the camp.
They will be joined by a number of young people from Basra and its various components over the course of four days before the campers move together to the city of Dhi Qar to continue the program implemented by the Masarat Foundation in partnership with the House of Coexistence and Kaiciid.
The program represents the beginning of a shared coexistence experience in which participants will engage in dialogues, receive training, visit religious, educational, and media institutions, and meet with cultural and religious figures and community leaders as well as decision-makers and public policy makers in an experience aimed at contributing to promoting dialogue as a mechanism for building peace and rejecting hate speech and understanding the other.
