Samjho Toh - The Samvidhan Live Dialogues and Fraternity Labs
A national programme designed by vartaLeap, ComMutiny- The Youth Collective and Pravah that brings together young peoplefrom varied identities and ideologies to deeply dialogue, collaborate upon and co-create a shared idea of India. While drawing uponthe values enshrined in the Preamble to the Constitution of India, the programme creates experiences that empower young people to initiate and sustain efforts for a harmonious world.
Vision:
Building prosperous, inclusive, peaceful and just communities by creating a culture of dialoguing, collaboration and co-creation among and through young people by bringing their ideas of India together.
Context:
The past few years have seen stereotyping and hate narratives increase, leading to social disruption, economic exclusion and psychological insecurity among people. The need of the hour is a challenge to the status quo that can be facilitated through integration of communities and the creation of a space that will enable deep dialoguing among young people in an effort towards social harmony, psychological wellbeing and economic prosperity.
Spread over eight months, the journey is divided into two phases i.e. 1) Samvidhan Live! Dialogues 2) Fraternity Labs
Phase 1: Samjho Toh The Samvidhan Live! Dialogue
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By dialoguing across the fault-lines, young peoplecome face to
face with the enriching power of diversity and difference and learn to view theworld from multiple viewing points to collaborate and co-create a shared vision of India. As a result of this process, hundreds of artistic expressions of their Young people through their engagement andamplification reach |
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Phase 2: Samjho Toh The Fraternity Labs
| Young people become champions of fraternity, and set up Fraternity Labs across the country to transform polarizing single narratives into deeply dialogued upon plutories.
With thousands of champions of fraternity at its helm, the labs become the sites of dialogue, co-interpretation, co-creation and co dissemination; there by transforming thousands of polarizing narratives of personal, regional, national, and international significance so as to bring alive the value of fraternity in every nook and corner of the country. |
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About the journey:
Samjho Toh- The Samvidhan Live Dialogues is a public initiative by ComMutiny – The Youth Collective and the VartaLeap Coalition, running in 25 locations in India with 1200 young people.
The initiative aims at bringing together young people from diverse ideological stances and standings to learn to engage with multiple viewing points, build capacities for deep dialoguing, collaboration and co-creation.
The journey will see young people come together and co-create a vaccine against hate after going through an intensive 6-week journey that will take them through the stages of understanding polarization, deep dialoguing, collaboration and co-creating an idea of India.
These young people through engagement and amplification will reach out to their peers and others in their communities and create a ripple effect to restructure the DNA of hate to DNA of fraternity.
At the end of the journey, participants will be able to:
1. Deconstruct their stories and initiate the process of mind-set change
2. Develop emotional literacy and the capacities to be able to practice empathy for deep
dialoguing
3. Co-create a shared vision of India based on constitutional values and express it through
art-based products
4. Influence polarized narratives through amplification of stories and art-based products
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