ATM Reports
The ATM REPORTS
“A Space of Our Own”
The role and value of youth organisations in strengthening communities
About the report.
This report draws on research carried out with ten youth organisations who are all members of London Youth. We sought to reflect a range of different provision within the research. Organisations were drawn from across London and varied in terms of the type of services they offer, and young people they support. Some have a mission focused solely on young people (although as we found out, they often work with parents, carers and other stakeholders in the community); others are much broader in their focus, and are not solely ‘youth organisations’, but work with young people as one of a number of groups of individuals.
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Somali Youth Speak out Summit
About the report.
Somali Youth Speak Out Summit Saturday 12th May 2018
In 2018, London witnessed a rise of violence that traumatised the Somali community. The rise in crime has accelerated, with the latest figures showing a 13% increase in all police-recorded offences across England and Wales and an even greater risk of violent offences including knife crime and violence against individuals. In recent years, many Somali youths have been involved in gang-related crimes and some have sadly lost their lives or have been lured into the cycle of criminality.
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HORDHAC
“Muslimka toosan waa qofka afkiisa iyo gacmihiisa ay ka nabad helaan dadka kale.”
Saxiixul Bukhaari.
Kacdoonka la dagaallanka qabyaaladda ayaa ku faraxsan in ay fursad u heshay in ay farriintan kula wadaagto oo ah mid ku saabsan mustaqbal wacan iyo nabad dhalinta dhallinyarada Soomaaliyeed. Waxaan qoraalkan kooban ku xusi doonaa foolxumada nabad-diidka iyo anshax xumida in laga shaqeeyo ama laga shaqeysto qabyaaladda iwm.
ATM Booklet – Maanta iyo Berri Nabadda iyo Dhalinyaradda Soomaaliyeed.
Hate Crime
About the report.
Is racism the new ‘normal’?
Somali experience of hate crime in the UK.
Somalis in the UK are frequent targets of hate crime, suffering incidents from verbal abuse to arson and assault. Most hate crime goes unreported. Most Somalis are resigned to racism as a normal part of being a minority in the UK.
Evidence for Home Affairs Select Committee on ‘Hate crime and its violent consequences’ August 2016
Nabad Youth Conference
ATM convened a conference to debate and discuss how Somali youth in the UK can add value to the London Somalia Conference on 7 May 2013, and other externally-supported peace talks which are too often based on a mixture of a clan, military influence, and financial power. This conference was an opportunity for young Somali-British to engage in the decision-making processes which will affect their future. Over 30 carefully selected Somalis, therefore, met to discuss five main themes that were pre-selected by the youth through a survey:
“First time I attended this kind of a workshop and I found it very encouraging and inspiring; well-done ATM for organising it” Mohamud Awil
“Fantastically well-structured and insightful” Sahra Abdillahi
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Diaspora consultations
As part of the ‘safe corridors’ study, Anti-Tribalism Movement designed a multiple-choice survey and conducted two workshops to:
1) gather quantitative and qualitative information on the perceptions of British-Somalis about the current banking issue;
2) deliver facts to the community about the current situation; and
3) engage the community about their ideas, insights, and recommendations towards a solution to the UK-Somali banking situation.
“As far as we know, the xawalas are willing and happy to meet the Bank’s criteria. However, Barclays is not making the criteria public. So far, there has never been a case where Somali Remittance companies have been suspected of not complying with any banks regulations, let alone found guilty of any such violations” Mohamed Ahmed
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Putting Lives at Risk
This is a community report to respond Barclays PLC decision to close the accounts of Somali MSBs, which is a matter of grave and urgent concern to the Somali community in the UK, including our members. It constitutes a viable and essential delivery of support to an estimated 40% of the population of Somalia. MSBs provide fast, reliable, trusted and secure transmission of funds from the Somali-British community, and from Somali diaspora communities elsewhere who send remittances to their relatives in Somalia who depend on this source of income.
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CEWERU Final
Social conflict refers to when groups oppose each other by exerting social power in an effort to control scarce resources. Resource-based conflicts are widespread in southern and central Somalia. Clan identities are politicized to advance resource, economic, or social interests intensifying differences between clans in southern Somalia and this report demonstrated that.
