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THE 25 CRITERIA FOR ASSESSING INTER-FAITH ACTIVITIES THAT INVOLVE YOUNG PEOPLE: KEEPING UP THE P.A.C.E. OF COMMUNITY COHESION These criteria have developed over the course of the project. They are not exhaustive, nor will all of them apply to every activity. They are, like all evaluative criteria, value-laden, for they work from the assumption that young people – both those of faith and spirit, and those of no faith – should be proactively involved in inter-faith work because it helps promote community cohesion. For clarity and as a simple aide-memoire, they have been clustered under the acronym P.A.C.E. This clustering is not hierarchically significant, it is simply a convenient and memorable way to order the 25 criteria for assessing inter-faith activities. | P | DO THE INTER-FAITH ACTIVITIES : Provide a neutral space for participants to come together? Provide a sacred space for those who wish to worship? Provide a safe space for dialogue and dissent? Provide clear ground rules for dialogue and activity? Provide clarity as to the language and terms used? Promote a subject and cross curricular approach? Promote a whole school/college approach? Promote aspects of urban renewal? Promote longer term sustainability? Provide a mechanism for sharing insights and outcomes with a range of stakeholders? | | A | Actively involve young people at the outset? Actively involve young people throughout the activities? Actively involve young people in the monitoring and evaluation of the activities? Actively involve young people in twinning, virtually and actually? Accept there will be times when faiths have to ‘agree to disagree’? | | C | Celebrate young people’s faith identities? Celebrate the religious and spiritual capital young people bring? Celebrate young people’s multiple identities? Celebrate the commonalities of faiths? Counter Islamophobia and the myths and stereotypes surrounding faith groups? | | E | Encourage dialogue and discourse? Encourage active citizenship and civic engagement? Encourage young people’s self-esteem and confidence in expressing and celebrating their own identity through faith? Encourage empathy and emotional literacy? Encourage bonding, bridging and linking? |
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