On Thursday November 21st, representatives from CCMUP including Bishop Mouneer Anis (Centre Director), Dr. Matthew Anderson (Director of Academic Studies), Mr. Kareem Gerges (Director of International Partnerships & Communications), Ms. Nermine Shenouda (Financial Director), and Ms. Alexandrya Pouliot (intern & LLM student of International Law) were invited to a partnership agreement-signing ceremony regarding the Centre’s peace-building project, at the Embassy of Ireland in Cairo with H.E. Ambassador Nuala O’Brien, Deputy Ambassador Thomas Bellew and Mr. Mohamad Mustafa (Policy Officer).
The partnership between the Centre and the Irish Embassy will advance our efforts to foster and strengthen interfaith peace in Egypt while learning from Ireland’s own experiences. We look forward to continuing an already thriving relationship.
The grant will fund the Centre’s pilot peace-building project in El-Minya governorate from December 2024 till April 2025. The main objective of this pilot project is to train local grassroots teams composed of Christians and Muslims on sustainable, scientific and ethical approaches to peace-building and conflict-resolution, in a region with a long history of violence, particularly sectarian and gender-based violence.
Traditional approaches to address different forms of violence in the region have failed, which threatens peace and stability in Egypt, hence the importance of this project.
