Roots for Peace is a YMCA Europe initiative for stronger youth activism towards peaceful transformation of conflicts in Europe.
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Empowering youthnto transform conflict
Young people in Armenia and Georgia are contributing to a fair and sustainable society in their countries.
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A movement to promotenpeace culture at all levels
Resilience building amongst people affected by the violent conflicts ongoing in and around Europe, Ukraine especially considered.
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Roots for Peace is a YMCA Europe initiative for stronger youth activism towards peaceful transformation of conflicts in Europe.
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Resilience building amongst people affected by the violent conflicts ongoing in and around Europe, Ukraine especially considered. Children and young people are better able to deal with stress and the blows of fate.
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Young people in Armenia and Georgia are contributing to a fair and sustainable society in their countries.
Learn more— Roots for Peace, YMCA EuropeThe YMCA has historically assumed working in and with conflicts as central to its service delivery. Committed to our roots and legacy the YMCA Europe pursues peace and reconciliation as a strategic priority.
The Roots for Peace programme, ongoing since 2007, remains a best practice in this line. In the framework of this initiative the Peace Work Institute scheme was piloted during 2012 – 2015 and approvingly evaluated by an externally facilitated outcome assessment process.
This evidence-based evaluation highly recommends the YMCA Europe to repeat the series of the Peace Work Institute for the next generation of the YMCA pan-European peace-cohort.
Follow what's happening across the Roots Ecosystem and its three projects.
August 14, 2024
Path to the Present was the first residential camp organised by YMCA in the Czech Republic within the Camp Europe project framework.…
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The second edition of YMCA Europe Generation Next project got off a very active start in Georgia. YMCA Georgia has identified and…
Read moreJuly 25, 2024
Just as Americans eagerly wait for Thanksgiving and Europeans look forward to Easter, the youth of Artsakh wait all year for the…
Read moreJuly 17, 2024
The United by Sports & Culture YMCA Summer Camp in Poland (7th -13th July), part of the Camp Europe program, was held in…
Read moreJuly 13, 2024
The latest edition of Roots & Next Quarterly, Issue #17, is now available, offering an in-depth retrospective of the events and activities…
Read moreJune 28, 2024
Summer is here, and as the temperatures rise, the Camp Europe team also reaches the busiest (and exciting!) period of the year.…
Read moreInvest in youth opinion leaders from all corners of Europe, united by one conviction — peace is the only way.
