About Yakjah
Yakjah Reconciliation and Development Network is a non-profit youth and women-led social innovation for peace building. We offer a non-judgemental safe space for self-expression for young people and women who are marginalized, are polarised and radicalized by conflict experiences and competitive narratives with opposing viewpoints and experiences, such as those who have witnessed or experienced violence, displacement and exile, and who are deeply traumatized by personal and collective grief. As a healing and transformative agency we work with diverse groups and communities. Our work has revealed over time, it is the inner fault lines that are driving conflict as much or more than the outer arising from unhealed trauma, vengeance, fractured interpersonal relationships, or crises of belonging. These fault lines form the basis of our transcendence work on self-awareness, empathy, and mindfulness thereby cultivating leadership based on humanitarian and compassionate approaches. It uses creative ways and methodology for responding to conflicts and forming human connections. Our work plays a critical role in bringing stories of inter connectedness that help to create a larger shared identity. Check out how