Peace Education

The traditional definition that peace is being merely the absence of war is losing ground. With good reason! Peace is maybe less a state or goal than a process that is meaningful in itself. Most people want peace, but the ways towards it are not so obvious. So let's try – first at an individual level – to find characteristics and competences which would contribute in becoming a “peace builder” in everyday life. In this sense the idea is to reflect on “how YOUth can promote a process of peace at our personal level of choices and actions.”

This interactive workshop invites participants to discover and discuss the “human factor” of peace. Displaying that every individual can contribute to peace throughout his or her conscious lifestyle. It aims to identify characteristics, skills, attitudes and forms of behaviour useful to promote peace in our daily environment. It also aims to raise awareness about peace as a personal process rather than an abstract and distant goal, and that developing one's own competences – and ultimately one's own personality – might be an equally important commitment and contribution to peace than starting a public campaign. In the meantime, peace can be understood in many different ways, and again hundreds of ways can help someone get closer to what that very person defines as peace. In this sense, this workshop aims to encourage participants find their personal definition of peace, reflect on the competence and attitudes necessary to contribute to this form of peace, and to provide inputs on how these competence could be continually fostered and nourished.

Peace Education Group of SCI Switzerland.

Service Civil International (SCI) is a peace organisation that co-ordinates international voluntary projects for people of all ages, cultural, religious and economic backgrounds.

Our work is based on the belief that all people are capable of living together and co-operating with mutual respect and without recourse to violence to solve conflict.

Through international voluntary work we aim to give people the chance to experience this way of living whilst contributing in a useful manner to the community.

For more Information, please visit www.scich.org or www.sciint.org