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.
July 10, 2023
YMCA Europe Roots for Peace project played a pivotal role in the recent YMCA Europe 50th Anniversary event. It took place in…
Read moreJuly 4, 2023
Berlin, July 3-4. YMCA Europe staff Lika and Vardan, together with the Roots for Peace expert Wolfgang Heinrich, conducted an inhouse Do…
Read moreJuly 3, 2023
Effective June 15th, within the framework of the YMCA Europe “Generation Next” project an Embroidery Summer School is launched in Yerevan, Armenia.…
Read moreJune 27, 2023
The first stage of preparations for YMCA Europe Roots “Give Peace a Chance” Study Session to be held at European Youth Center…
Read moreJune 20, 2023
On 14-16 June 2023, the Roots for Peace team of YMCA Europe and German NGO “Dialogue for Understanding” met in Grozny, Russia,…
Read moreJune 9, 2023
This week Roots Communications Assistant Lika Zakaryan visited the YMCA Europe Secretariat, where she received a very warm welcome from our Brussels…
Read moreInvest in youth opinion leaders from all corners of Europe, united by one conviction — peace is the only way.
