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2024 October Launched emergency humanitarian assistance to Gaza in Palestine and establishing dialogue spaces for a new process to peace and justice involving youth and conflict parties.
June Launched a rehabilitation and social reintegration project for former combatants of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Caquetá, Colombia.
April Presented at the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum 2024 held in New York, USA, and hosted an official side event.
2023 November Initiated a project to prevent radicalization among vulnerable youth in frontline areas of Lower Shabelle, Somalia.
October Held the 1st International Symposium on Youth Associated with Non-State Armed Groups in New York, USA.
September Started a deradicalization and social reintegration project for terrorist inmates at the maximum-security prison on Nusakambangan Island, Indonesia.
June Launched a resilience enhancement project in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to address climate change and conflict in Turkana and Garissa, northwest and northeast Kenya, respectively.

Began deradicalization and social reintegration projects for Houthi armed group members, defectors, and war prisoners, as well as participation in prisoners of war exchange negotiations, in special detention facilities in Marib Governorate, Yemen.
March Commenced a deradicalization and social reintegration project for terrorism-related inmates at maximum-security prisons in Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya.
2021 December Began managing the first rehabilitation facility for defectors of Al-Shabaab in central Galmudug State, Somalia.
October Obtained Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
September Released a "Declaration of Rights for Youth Involved in Terrorism and Armed Conflict" to mark the 10th anniversary of Accept International.
April Launched a deradicalization and social reintegration project towards defectors of armed groups in Taiz, Yemen.
2020 December Received the Peace Award at the "King Hamad Youth Empowerment Award to Achieve the SDGs," hosted by the King of Bahrain and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
November Launched support programs for Muslim residents and rehabilitation for juvenile delinquents in Japan.

Received the 55th Social Contribution Award (Nippon Foundation Prize) from the Public Interest Incorporated Foundation Social Contribution Support Foundation.

Our organization's initiative was recognized as a "solution to global challenges" at the 3rd Paris Peace Forum, marking the first time such a selection has been made from Japan.

With funding from the Toyota Foundation, launched a project to prevent online radicalization in Indonesia and Japan.
August Initiated a project in collaboration with the Somali government to encourage defections from Al-Shabaab.
April Implemented emergency responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Somalia and Kenya, in partnership with UN-HABITAT.
2019 April Initiated a deradicalization and social reintegration program for arrested members and convicts of Al-Shabaab at the central prison in Mogadishu, Somalia.
2018 September Initiated an income generation support project through entrepreneurship for vulnerable unemployed youths, including gang members, in the semi-slum areas of Nairobi, Kenya.
August Started a deradicalization and social reintegration support program for former members of a so-called terrorist organization in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia.
April Commenced the integration of members from the Somali gang "Superpower."
2017 September Completed the acceptance of all members and disbandment of “Calif Massive,” a Somali gang organization.
July Commenced partner operations with UN-Habitat at Mandera, Kenya.
April Incorporated the “Japan Somalia Youth Organization” to “NGO Accept International.”
March The number of the deradicalization and reintegration project participants exceeds 70 people.
2016 Feburary Launched collaboration with the Somali government on rehabilitation and reintegration programs for former Al-Shabaab members.
2015 March Yosuke Nagai (Executive Director) is awarded the Special Prize as part of the "Waseda University Ono Azusa Memorial Prize" and the “Waseda University Alumni Association Prize.”
2014 July Awarded the “Humanity Prize,” and the “Incentive Award of the Minister of Foreign Affairs” as part of the “28th Annual Ten Outstanding Young Persons” and the Grand Prize of “University Student of the Year 2014.”
2013 September Initiated the "Movement with Gangsters" project, aimed at the deradicalization and social reintegration of Somali gang members.
February Won first place with 956 votes in the "Student Challenge for Change: A Project for Good by Students!" hosted by American Express Japan.
2012 October Launched the “Cheer Up Somali Sports Project,” a peacebuilding project through donations of sports equipment at a Somali refugee camp district in Kenya.
2011 December Officially commenced activities with Somali members, and through the merger with local student groups in Kenya.
Nobember Launched the “Long-term Study Abroad Project” to Japan for Somali students.
Semtember Established the “Japan Somalia Youth Organization,” a Student-led NGO based at Waseda University with co-founders Yosuke Nagai and two students from Somalia. The organization was founded on the basis to “resolve conflicts in Somalia.”

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