CLAPS

Project “Community Leaders’ Activism for Peace and Stability (CLAPS)” aims to promote social cohesion and societal peace through Salamti Fellowship sequels and supporting components. It opens up the necessary well-thought, structured dialogue and debate with young community influencers and credible voices from diverse social backgrounds on pressing issues and policies pertaining to P/CVE via sensitization and trainings delivered by the subject experts. It prepares the pool of ‘informed leaders’ who then take the messages to the larger communities effectively and sustain the impacts through community-based initiatives.

Project CLAPS is designed on the strong foundations of project AmnQalaab, which featured strong advocacy, community engagement, training, and capacity enhancement of community/youth activists, influencers, and existing CSOs/NGOs on peacebuilding, alongside a strong social media campaign engaging communities across the board. CLAPS is a project that adds more sophistication to the existing methodology by capitalizing on the results of the previous efforts and making use of the existing data/network. Project CLAPS includes the best of the best from the earlier executed interventions and organizes/arranges the learnings in a more systematic manner.  Shaoor Foundation’s flagship program, Salamti Fellowship forms the core of this new initiative. The project CLAPS plans to make the upcoming Salamti Fellowship cohorts more diverse and reach to the grassroots, with a clear emphasis on sustainability through the reciprocation of learnings as part of community action projects. The presence of a strong existing network of Salamti Fellows would also be helpful in multiplying the impact of CLAPS. 

CLAPS would focus on engaging young people from diverse backgrounds and far flung/marginalized communities, but simultaneously with a clear professional interest in subjects such as peace, tolerance, inter/intra-faith harmony and other areas about P/CVE. The fellowships organized under CLAPS, just like previous cohorts of Salamti Fellowship, would give due consideration to religious, regional, ethnic, gender and professional diversity while making selections of the fellows along with their areas of interest and experience of peace leadership in their respective communities and professional groups.