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This year International Alert celebrates 30 years of helping people affected by violent conflict build peace.

In over 40 countries around the world, we bring together communities divided by conflict to find ways of resolving their differences without resorting to violence, providing them with trauma counselling, mediation and training. Local people building local peace.

Whether it is working with communities, their governments or global institutions, we help tackle the root causes of conflict around the world.

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The vulnerability of children and young people to recruitment by violent extremist groups in Syria represents a growing challenge to peace. But by giving them a safe space, an education and trauma counselling, International Alert is helping them to develop the skills needed to cope with the ordeals they are facing.

Photo: 漏 Russell Watkins/DFID (Creative Commons)

International Alert is working with young people in Lebanon to help challenge a history of sectarian division by building bridges across political divides. We bring them together so they can discuss constructively and peacefully and tackle the issues that divide them.听

Photo: 漏 Nadim Bou Habib/International Alert

鈥淲ithout your guidance and what you tell us, I would have joined ISIS,鈥� says 17-year-old Abdul, from Syria.

By attending our peace education sessions, Abdul was able to discuss the issues he was facing and reflect on what he wanted from his life.

Photo: 漏 Nadim Kamel/International Alert

The names of the people in this appeal have been changed to protect their identities.听