The escalation of violence triggered by a forced disarmament operation in Muslim neighborhoods of Bangui in April 2018, dealt a heavy blow to the social cohesion work that had been going on since the 2013 coup.

"We asked for it but didn't know it would come this way" Pk5 resident.

When MINUSCA came to disarm armed groups in the Muslim neighborhood of Pk5, they came at the request of business owners in the community. Shopkeepers are the first victims of racketeering and illegal taxation.

Cultural dominance manifests itself in a number of ways. Breaking those patterns can start with pointing the mirror at oneself, altering the ways by which we operate and shifting things from where we sit.

Communities in Transition (CIT) was accepted into the Startup Leadership Program (SLP), a highly selective, global, world-class training program and lifelong global network for outstanding founders, leaders, and innovators who want to become startup CEOs.

Dialogue projects generally use four types of transfer models, differentiated by the type of participants and the direction of the transfer to other groups or institutions: