Everyone can do their own part for peace by learning to resolve conflictsin their own sphere of life. This, however, requires knowledge and skills: listening, mindful communication, confronting one’s own feelings and assumptions, and the ability to detect social structures and operation models that cause or maintain conflicts. Fortunately, these are all skills that can be practiced and maintained at all age levels.
In Strengthening Peace Education for Preventing Conflicts -project, we called professionals a cross of Europe to develop a new, EU-wide training programme in peacebuilding. Our aim was define special peace training which defines core skills of maintaining and building a peace. The need for more efficient special peace training was essential as several countries answered to our effort.
Austria: Fremde werden Freunde
Estonia: Estonian Dialogue Academy
Finland: Työväen akatemia, Suomen Setlementtiliitto
Poland: Fundacja Wspierania Dialogu “Rozmawiajmy”
Ukraine: Youth Space (Ukraine)
You can learn more on our project from here. You can read our reports from our European wide virtual workshop here and how to use dialoque on peace work workshop report from here.
In Strengthening Peace Education for Preventing Conflicts, we explorethe challenges in training adults in peacebuilding, conflict resolution and dialogue. We research the current practices and needs in peaceeducation, and exchange experiences on effective training methods in EU-countries. SPEC is a small-scale partnership project working under the Erasmus+ programme. Our long-term aim is to develop a new, EU-widetraining programme in peacebuilding. Project was conducted by The Committee of 100 in Finland, Peace Ambassador Academy, Työväen Akatemia and Fundacja Wspierania Dialogu “Rozmawiajmy”.
Funded by the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) can be held responsible for the content of this publication. More information about the Erasmus+ programme: www.oph.fi/erasmusplus.
