🔗 Read IFIT’s 2025 White Paper on “Fast-Track Negotiation”:
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Watch our new animated video and learn how IFIT’s “fast-track negotiation” model aims to fundamentally reshape how peace talks and political negotiations are conceived and implemented.

🔗 Learn more about IFIT’s Initiative on Fast-Track Negotiation: ifit-transitions.org/initiative-o...

Increasing negotiation speed and pragmatism can lead to more agreements, thus helping restore negotiation’s crucial role in preventing and resolving large-scale violence.

🔗 Read IFIT’s 2025 White Paper on “Fast-Track Negotiation”:
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👉 Learn more about the Global Initiative on Polarization: ifit-transitions.org/the-global-i...

#SkollWF #OvercomePolarization #depolarization #IFIT

Hosted by the Ford Foundation, Skoll Foundation, and IFIT, the event brought together 150+ social entrepreneurs, experts and philanthropists committed to bridging divides and building common ground.

Thank you to all the participants who made this dialogue so meaningful.

These powerful closing words from Hilary Pennington captured the spirit of the “Depolarization: Seize the Moment” event held earlier this month in the context of the 2025 Skoll World Forum.

Some examples of the group’s work are discussed in IFITe Cuenta: a Spanish-language podcast that explores key regional issues of democracy and security.

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Since 2022, the programme has consolidated a unique multi-disciplinary and multi-country network of 90+ leading experts dedicated to testing solutions, sharing lessons, and fostering strategic collaborations to reduce violence, strengthen democracy, and mitigate polarisation across the region.

🔗 The full report:
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#IFIT #Zimbabwe #CommunityDialogue

🔗 The toolkit: ifit-transitions.org/country-publ...

We thank the Institute for Local Governance (ILG), Youth Empowerment and Transformation Trust (YETT), Community Youth in Development Trust (CYDT), Youth in Peace Building Initiative Trust (YIPIT), and Zimbabwe Women Against Corruption Trust (ZWACT) for their valuable contributions to this work.

It builds on findings from 13 cases of community dialogue conducted between 2018 and 2023, all of which are examined in IFIT’s groundbreaking report "Promoting Bottom-Up Dialogue: A Study of Community-Level Dialogue Experiences in Zimbabwe".

The toolkit—developed as part of IFIT’s dialogue-oriented work in Zimbabwe—is designed to support practitioners in promoting successful and sustainable outcomes for community dialogues across the country.

We will be providing more information about the programme in the coming weeks and months.

The programme aims to bring new ideas that can help expand the spectrum of perceived solutions to crisis and conflict in the region; bridge violent divides; and amplify expert voices on key regional issues of negotiation and transition.

Building on years of intensive IFIT work in individual countries ranging from #Syria to #Libya, #Sudan and #Tunisia, our inaugural Regional Programme for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) adds a fresh layer of analysis and action to our existing work.

🔍 Explore key takeaways on trust-building, confidentiality, and engagement strategies.

🔗 Read the publication “Dialogue with State Security Actors in Hybrid Regimes: Recommendations for Constructive Engagement”:
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#Security #Democracy #HybridRegimes #IFIT

At IFIT, we've spent years researching this challenge, analysing country cases, and speaking with those at the heart of engagement efforts. Our findings offer practical guidance for policymakers on fostering dialogue and navigating complex security dynamics.