Social Cohesion and Reconciliation Program (SCORE)

(Sri Lanka): .SCORE promotes reconciliation and social cohesion addressing underlying grievances that led to Sri Lanka's civil war, mistrust between ethnic and religious groups, and segregation in the political, economic, and cultural arena..SCORE addresses structural drivers that enable violent extremism. It acts as a change agent to Sinhalese Buddhist and Muslim communities in the Southern, Central, and Eastern Provinces, promote open dialogue, and extend support to coexistence societies and inter-religious committees to strengthen social harmony and religious tolerance. SCORE will partner with Ministry of Justice, transitional justice mechanisms such as Office of National Unity and Reconciliation, Office of Missing Persons (OMP)and Parliamentary select committees to address issues of communal and religious harmony, and national unity. It will support social media campaigns to counter fake news, social engineering, and radicalization of youth along religious lines, and provide sub-grants to religious networks to carry out social cohesion and reconciliation activities. Through small grants and technical assistance it will promote youth networks to strengthen the moderate youth

Source: IATI activity description, US-GOV-1-72038318CA00003 (2018). This is the source's own text, not a cited summary of the documents.