Creating safer communities in the Ferghana Valley

In the Ferghana Valley, which spans the borders of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, local communities face numerous safety and security incidents stemming from inter-ethnic and cross-border tensions around resources and perceptions of marginalisation. A new video highlights our work with communities to make their lives safer. 

Saferworld has been working in the Ferghana Valley since 2010. This video, with interviews from staff, partner organisations, local authorities and members of the local communities themselves, looks at the success the programme is having at resolving local tensions. The programme is creating the space for communities to identify their own safety and security concerns and supporting them to find solutions to those issues. Through this increased interaction communities are starting to resolve the causes of disputes that can lead to violent conflict.

Watch the video in Russian.

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“Community security working groups together with the local population identify local security problems...they choose the most important problem and begin working on a solution”

Gulnara Soorbekova, project Manager, Foundation for Tolerance, Krgyzstan