As an educational charity and social enterprise, we work with people from diverse backgrounds to understand the causes and impacts of social division and conflict in order to create more just and inclusive societies.
Our approach is interactive, reflexive, and explores practical strategies underpinned by the latest research in the field. As future leaders in their communities, we support and equip young people with the skills, networks, perspective and confidence to question, challenge and understand our complex social world.
Through facilitating peer to peer learning, as well as providing insight from leading influencers, policy makers and practitioners from across different sectors, we want young people to lead the conversation on challenging questions such as: re-imagining democracy; strengthening the rule of law; understanding shifting values across generations; and debating freedom of expression, religion and belief.
Disagreeing well
Dialogue and debate is at the heart of what we do. We argue, we disagree, but we aim to disagree well. To do this, we offer space and time for ‘difficult conversations’, deep thinking and reflection, using the Chatham House Rule at many of our events. While our approach is centred on face-to-face learning we support our programmes with a library of online resources for both public use and to accompany specific programme activities.
Developing future leaders
Underpinning all the work that we do is the development of leadership skills, encouraging young people, and ourselves, to think about what a ‘good’ society might look like and how we might create it. Our workshops on ethics, communication, and cultural differences are key to this process, providing participants with the support to reflect critically on the moral, cultural and intergenerational dimensions of our contemporary social worlds.