Values

Connect

We promote the value of human connectedness, and mutual respect for all people regardless of colour, culture, nationality, or race. We believe that the uniqueness of each person, and their culture, provides the basis for them to be treated with respect, care, and integrity.
We believe that building meaningful relationships in an effective manner, within our global neighbourhood, requires that they be built between those from different cultural backgrounds.

We work towards creating environments that promote interaction between people from different cultures so that they may discover creative ways of resolving their differences.
We work towards building visible action-oriented projects that are designed to promote healthy interaction within communities and nations.

We run our programs inside the sociocultural environments in which people live and work.
We believe that deeper relationships can be established by working with people in their natural environment.

We offer our services and projects to diverse groups that are represented by different cultures. We view our staff and volunteers as cross-cultural facilitators, serving other individuals and communities.
We work with board members, staff, and volunteers who are themselves represented by different cultural backgrounds.

We believe that conflict, and differences that divide individuals, communities, and nations, can be transformed from the destructive to the constructive. However we are also aware that conflict resolution can be a long process. Through our short term goals and initiatives we work towards finding long term strategies for peacemaking.
We believe that conflict between individuals, communities, and nations can be solved through a process of dialogue and openness, and a willingness to put aside differences that divide.

We believe that the global village we live in presents us with unprecedented opportunities for peacemaking worldwide, but that this requires collaboration with other groups, organisations, and institutions.
We look for all possible opportunities to establish a close relational network with organisations and institutions that have similar goals and values to ours.