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*Photos taken during our programs in southeastern Turkey and Cyprus

About Us

HasNa's mission is to promote cross-cultural understanding and economic empowerment in culturally divided areas of the world and to encourage individuals and communities in such areas to work together toward advancement and peaceful coexistence.

HasNa's vision is to integrate all members of a community through the fabric of social justice and professional development. We nurture this vision by planting seeds of peace in communities throughout a troubled world. We work at the grassroots level to create communication and collaboration among ethnically divided peoples, providing the tools and ongoing assistance to support small-scale, sustainable efforts aimed at economic and social development.

HasNa's strategy is based on the following principles:

• Combining conflict resolution and professional development
• Providing custom-tailored integrated curriculum to meet the participants' immediate needs
• Working with local partners in targeted regions
• Including individuals from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds
• Encouraging participants to implement improvement projects following their HasNa experience
• Empowering HasNa graduates to network for continuing support and sustainability

Ultimately, genuine and permanent peace can come about when diverse communities in a region understand and respect one another, develop economies that are more equitable and interdependent, and share a vision for a common future.

Traditional conflict resolution interventions can help manage disputes and provide a respite from conflict. They promote communication and understanding, recognition of differences, acceptance of diversity and the discovery of common ground. Even the better programs, however, which leave behind trained mediators and local institutions to continue their work, fail to address in a significant way economic factors.

HasNa helps groups with different ethnic and cultural backgrounds to work together to address common interests and achieved mutual goals. Our goal is to strengthen relationships through increased understanding. HasNa has created a unique training model that provides participants with the necessary tools to act as catalysts in the development of their communities. A proactive approach that fully integrates the economic development realities of diverse communities provides a valuable model for sustainable conflict resolution and prevention.