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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December 4, 2017
When you start talking about peace, everyone stands for it, after couple of minutes it stops right there. I think it happens…
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In the past two sessions of the YMCA Europe Roots for Reconciliation Peace Work Institute (PWI), the participants dealt with the topic…
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From November 12 to 18, 2017, the second seminar of the Peace Work Institute took place in Berlin. In April, approximately 30…
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2017, November 12-18. Berlin. Fifty-seven years ago there was a city where its people were over night separated by a long wall.…
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Berlin was chosen as the location where the 2nd Peace Work Institute session was held, including 30 young people from 15 European…
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With troubled past, once divided… It was the place that signalled the change some 30 years ago and laid the foundation of…
Read moreInvest in youth opinion leaders from all corners of Europe, united by one conviction — peace is the only way.
