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Tuesday , 3 December 2024
حمایت از عدم خشونت جهانی و دموکراسی | کمک مالی شما که قابل کسر از مالیات است، تفاوتی ایجاد می‌کند.
Tuesday , 3 December 2024
پشتیوانی لە ناتوندوتیژی جیهانی و دیموکراسی بەخشینەکەت کە باج لێدەبڕدرێت جیاوازی دروست دەکات.
Tuesday , 3 December 2024
جهانی نادامانلیغین و دیموکراسی‌نین پشتیوانی، باج‌لر سیزین بخشینیزنی ایستیلا و جدایی‌لیغی دوغورور
Tuesday , 3 December 2024
جھان ءِ عدم تشدد ءُ جمہوریت ءِ حمایت ءَ بکن اِت تئی ٹیکس کٹائی ءِ کمک ءَ فرق کیت۔
Tuesday , 3 December 2024
Who We Are
Nonviolent Initiative For Democracy Inc
Nonviolent Initiative for Democracy (NID) is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing gender equality and equity, promoting democracy, pluralism and nonviolence. We achieve this by facilitating transnational collaboration among academics, activists, journalists and civil society actors, fostering joint efforts on various projects. We prioritize working with people in Iran and Afghanistan.
NID envisions a future where all people live together in peace and prosperity.
We encourage people to work together to build peace and security for all. We work directly with our partners to identify needed changes and then to create and implement effective strategies to support those changes. These partners include a diverse group of civil society organizations and individuals.
Through training and mentoring, we help social change agents turn their goals into action. We empower people to use their voices effectively. We believe that people of all genders should be equal partners in creating these changes.
Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning.
Marshall Ganz, Teacher of grassroots organizing at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government
We Believe
We believe the road to true democracy is paved with nonviolent struggle, an understanding of democratic and peaceful norms and values, and the promotion of pluralism and tolerance.
We believe that empowered citizens who are willing to enter into dialogue, who are tolerant and who respect each other, have the power to bring about equality for all citizens, in all the diversities of gender, ethnicity, race, class and religion. These citizens can defend the rule of law, defend the freedom of speech, advocate for rights and advocate for responsibility, accountability, and transparency in government.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.
Martin Luther King Jr. Leader of the U.S. civil rights movement and advocate for nonviolent civil disobedience
Where We Work
We are presently concentrating on Iran, with plans to expand our endeavors and expertise to forge connections with other Persian-speaking peoples.
Our History
In 2009, fraudulent presidential elections were held in Iran and millions of Iranians protested. The Green Movement arose out of this protest. People around the world were inspired by the unity and hope expressed in this nonviolent movement for democratization. Among them was a group of Iranian academics and activists in the United States. They established the Nonviolent Initiative for Democracy (NID) in 2010.
Since its inception, NID has:
- Built a network to train women and youth to seek public office.
- Trained women to prepare for public office.
- Developed a media-based dialogue on democracy.
- Trained women and youth in the core competencies of civil organizing; such as leadership, good governance, advocacy and gender-responsive budgeting.
- Mentored individuals and teams to successfully campaign on important issues.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead, Cultural anthropologist.
Board of directors
Esha Momeni Chair
Fatemeh Haghighatjoo Board member and
Executive Director
Executive Director
Arash Azizi Board member
Esha Momeni Chair
Dr. Esha Momeni is an Iranian American scholar and activist. She received her Ph.D. in Gender Studies at the University
of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she is currently a lecturer. In addition, she holds a master’s degree in mass
communication. Her research and teaching specializations include modern Iran and the Middle East, media and popular
culture, and gender and sexuality. Her activism started in 2006 when she joined the One Million Signatures Campaign–a
non-hierarchical movement demanding an end to discriminatory laws against women in Iran. She is engaged in various
projects concerning gender in the Middle East.
Fatemeh Haghighatjoo Board member and
Executive Director
Executive Director
Dr. Haghighatjoo is an expert in Iran’s internal affairs and an advocate of human rights, women’s rights, and democracy
in Iran. She was a member of Iran’s Reformist parliament from 2000-2004. She earned her Ph.D. in Counseling and has held
academic positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University, University of Connecticut,
University of Massachusetts Boston, Tehran University and Shahid Beheshti University. She has written papers on Iran’s
internal affairs and women’s rights. She has authored a book entitled “Search for Truth” (published in Persian in 2002).
In 2005, she was honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and since then she has been associated
with The Forum of Young Global Leaders.
Arash Azizi Board member
Arash Azizi is a writer and historian. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and his writings have appeared in
numerous other outlets including The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and The Washington Post. He holds a
PhD in history and Middle Eastern studies from New York University. He is the author of “The Shadow Commander:
Soleimani, the US and Iran’s Global Ambitions” (2020) and “What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom” (2024). He is a
fellow at the Center for MIddle East and Global Order (CMEG).