This Respect in the Commonwealth Toolkit is a "Project in a box" about building resilience and inter-community dialogue. It encompasses detailed instructions, illustrations and inspiration.
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The Respect in the Commonwealth Toolkit focuses on how to deliver workshops on inter- and intra-community relationship building, and aims to improve global citizenship literacy, awareness of tools and learning of skills to build socially cohesive and tolerant communities that are resilient to violent extremism. It has the capacity to be scaled up and applied anywhere the Commonwealth.

This toolkit aims to improve tolerance, understanding and respect for diversity, and promote social cohesion among different social, ethnic, religious, geographical, generational, gender, linguistic groups within all communities. 

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Who is it for

This toolkit is for anyone who feels motivated to improve relationships and respect in the community, the workplace and even among friends and family.  You can use it to improve respect generally or to tackle a specific issue, such as hate speech or inter-ethnic conflict.

Whether you are experienced in facilitating change or are just starting out, this toolkit has been designed and tested for you. Depending on your level of experience of bringing people together and the kinds of issues you’re working with, you’ll find a range of different tools to apply.

The key thing about this toolkit is that is designed to be carried out individually as well – so you, as a peacebuilder, can use this resource to also self-develop and gain a better understanding of how the process and each activity works. 

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