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.
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May 10, 2021
Last week the global community commemorated the date that marked the end of one of the most tragic and devastating chapters in…
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Since its inception in 2012 and with two cohorts (2012-2014, 2014-2019) of participants that passed through it, the Roots Peace Work Institute…
Read moreMay 8, 2021
On May 7th a great event took place: ”World by Word: hiSTORY behind us”. This online program was in Russian and English…
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May the Fourth may sound like a start of a quote familiar to millions of Star Wars fans all over the world,…
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Almost as soon as the war broke out, YMCA developed mobile canteens to bring refreshments to the troops. These second-hand vans, painted…
Read moreMay 5, 2021
რაც მტრობას დაუნგრევია, სიყვარულს უშენებია And what has been ruined by hostility, has been rebuilt by love. When I was a little…
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