Utah's Fireside Chats
The Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy is proud to present Fireside Chats! These fireside chats are short conversations with Utah’s citizen diplomats who are reformulating the American worldview by bringing their global experience back home. We hope that the embers of this conversation will light a fire in you to also make the global - local.
Utah's Fireside Chats
The Yazidi Community: A Community of Peace and History of Genocide
DISCLAIMER: This episode briefly mentions some topics of violence, especially towards women. In this episode, Dawood Saleh, a Yazidi native and refugee, comes on to discuss the truth of what the Yazidi community entails. Through the topic of religion, history, genocides, as well as what Dawood does to highlight his community, we are able to learn just how unique this marginalized community is.
If you are interested in helping, some of the organizations mentioned in this episode are linked here:
https://freeyezidi.org/
https://thelotusflower.org/blog1/2021/7/30/why-the-world-must-remember-the-forgotten-yazidis