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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April 29, 2020
I felt a bit privileged to be invited to participate in this Project (‘Give Peace a Chance’ – ROOTS Tandem Group Project –…
Read moreApril 27, 2020
Quite to my astonishment, the Peace Work Institute ‘happened’ to me, like all the best things in life, when I didn’t even know how much…
Read moreApril 25, 2020
Before becoming a part of the Peace Work Institute family, I have heard about this project from my friends who were participating in the…
Read moreApril 23, 2020
I have been a member of YMCA Georgia since I was ten. My experience, in the beginning, was just camps, festivals and then volunteering. Once…
Read moreApril 21, 2020
It is impossible to mention the most influential methodology or specific knowledge that I mostly use in my work or life. It has…
Read moreApril 16, 2020
It is hard to imagine going back to that place of anxiety eight years ago when my journey started with Roots for…
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