Colombo, June 4, 2021 – Facebook and The Asia Foundation have partnered to launch The Resiliency Initiative website which provides civil society organizations (CSOs) in the Asia Pacific with the resources they need to create a positive narrative and combat hate and intolerance online. It includes case studies from CSOs across the region, including two from Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka’s “New Wave” Murals and Resilience Through Dialogue: Building Shared Values in Sri Lanka. Launched last year, The Resiliency Initiative aims to promote tolerance, strengthen interfaith and inter-ethnic understanding and counter violent extremism in the Asia Pacific. The organizations that participated from Sri Lanka are Sri Lanka Unites, Women & Media Collective, Women in Need, Hashtag Generation, Grassrooted Trust, and Hithawathi. For more information, see the Facebook newsroom post by Dr. Nawab Osman and Dr. Adam Burke.
