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The Islamic Forum for Islamic Dialogue (IFID)

The International Forum for Islamic Dailogue (IFID)  was founded in 1994 as a non-profit organisation based in London, United Kingdom, that depends primarily in implementing activities across the world on establishing working partnerships with non-governmental organisations that share their vision and goals. The IFID's mission is developing a modern understanding of contemporary Muslim issues, through facilitating & promoting effective dialogue around them, that leads to individual empowerment and institutional reform.

Background
The lack of a modern interpretation of Islam, immature political experiments of most Islamic movements, social immobility, violence and above all the dysfunctionality of cultural settings have led to the establishment of an organisation with a novel but vital objective, and a unique approach. IFID’s first port of call in its colourful journey was to engage Muslim minds and to get the debates going – the Arabic and English publication, Islam21, reflected the depth of dialogue, presented original concepts and brave new ideas whilst at the same time giving special treatment to its new chosen topics. For instance, a complete issue was devoted to debating the problem of violence in the midst of Muslim around the world and discussing the then taboo ideas of the utilisation of concepts such as democracy or civil society.

Objectives
To develop and promote the Educational Participatory Course on Muslim Youth development: "Success In a Changing World", that seeks to empower them to play a productive, constructive and influential role towards the modernisation of their communities. To establish & nurture an Active Network of educators and facilitators on the course "Success In a Changing World" among Muslim societies around the Middle East & North Africa and eventually the globe. To build & enhance the capacities of a Core Group of Educators among Muslim youth who will disseminate enlightened views relating to Islam, democracy, pluralism and universal human, political, and civil rights. To build & enhance the capacities of Ethical, Capable, Knowledgeable and Skillful Young Leaders within targeted Muslim societies. To strengthen a Network of Moderate Muslim Thinkers that will disseminate enlightened views relating to Islam, democracy, pluralism and universal human, political, and civil rights. To provide Professional Advice and Relevant Support to the organisations who work in the field of education and training for youth within Muslim Societies. To utilize Audio-Visual & Social Networks means to further achieve IFID's objectives. To strengthen & enhance the capacities of IFID as a Modern Developmental Organisation.

Al Raseid AlTanweeri
Today, the Arabic publication, Al Rassid AlTanweeri (The Enlightened Monitor), published by the IFID, is deepening the self-critical tradition that was instilled at the birth of this organisation and has been successful in dealing with sensitive and important subjects such as, the lack of think tanks in the Muslim world and the deterioration of higher education in the Arab world.

Present and Future of the IFID
At the turn of the century, after 2000, the rationale in thought was that an educational and training programme is even more vital in achieving the desired objective of change among young Muslims. In 2003, we witnessed the birth of a pilot scheme of the training programme, named then the Muslim Civic participation (MCP). Since its launch, the training course was distinguished from others in having added value and dealing effectively with the mentality of the youth, by employing mental tools, to teach “how to think” and not “what to think”; to encourage them to think big. Today the renamed, much developed and deeper course of “Success in a Changing World” (SCW) is an established programme and has succeeded tremendously in at least 10 Arab countries of the MENA area. In fact a network of SCW was set up, under the auspices of IFID, was established in 2009 following the first annual meeting of IFID and their local partners in Beirut 2009. The organization during the tenure of its first three executive directors was small enough that the focus was on building the foundation and reinforcing its main objective of the running projects. The last five year, however, the IFID saw a noticeable increase in its activities and a bigger overhead to underpin its huge work. That is why in 2011, a dynamic and young executive director was appointed to take the organization and its vision forward. In that light, a strengthened Board of Directors and an exemplary advisory board became more appropriately arranged in the structure of the organization. Today the organization is engaging many people in its huge training programme in the MENA region as well as the running of the UK project, a Digital Video project, the Alrasid alTanweeri Project and the C–SAMI (Centre for the studies of Arab and Muslim information) project. The IFID work is aided by three websites highlighting the training programme as well the magazine and its monitoring task of intellectual articles and C-SAMI. The IFID work is run by a dedicated full-time and part- time team and aided by a number of volunteers.