A Nonprofit in Montréal | Tiohtià:ke | Québec
PLEDJ promotes leadership among global indigenous and marginalized communities to foster empowerment, development, and justice. We combine education, training, research and community practice which integrates academic expertise and local knowledge to create best practices driven by people from the Global South.

THE POWER TO EFFECT CHANGE IS IN THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE
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Our Strategies
PLEDJ focuses on people in the Global South who are in positions of structural marginalization made vulnerable because of their economic, social or political status, such as women, indigenous peoples, racial and religious minorities, and refugees.
PLEDJ engages leaders and activists from these communities in the design of practical models of civic organization, social work, capacity-building, and research which directly impact their lives.
PLEDJ works with academic and policy-making partners to develop interdisciplinary programs that provide innovative education and training solutions that address unequal balances of power that marginalized peoples face.
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OUR VISION
PLEDJ envisions a world where people living in marginalization can use their local knowledge and power to lead a world defined by equality, justice,
and peace.