TEDxNicosia Nicos Anastasiou

Added: 05-01-2012 13:04:47

Nicos Anastasiou, an Economics teacher by profession, has been involved in bi-communal citizen peace building work in Cyprus on a voluntary basis for the last 20 years. His work included bringing together in the buffer zone people from the two communities who, before the 1974 war, lived in mixed villages. He has contributed to the creation of numerous bi-communal groups like educators, deaf people, dancers, musicians, and theatre enthusiasts.He has worked extensively with young people in efforts to create genuine friendships despite the generalized negative stereotypes that one community has of the other. He is currently one of the two Principal Coordinators of the Cyprus Friendship Programme, an all volunteer project that 'pairs' together teens from the two communities in Cyprus and through them bringing together their families and friends.After decades of conflict in the island of Cyprus, the two largest communities, the Turkish Cypriot and the Greek Cypriot, have been separated geographically as well as psychologically. In this TEDxNicosia talk, Nicos Anastasiou shares stories of citizen peace-building and how ordinary were separated due to the conflict are reconvening again and how the younger generation is learning to turn the pain of the past from a wall that separates them to a bridge that brings them together. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x=independently organized event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. * (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

Tags: Cyprus English TEDxNicosia peace 'peace-building' bicommunal Cyprus Friendship Programme' Youth Encounters for Peace GreekCypriot TurkishCypriot 'Co-Villagers

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