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In I am Roots, News

I am ROOTS: Anastasia Tsygankova

Since its inception in 2012 and with two cohorts (2012-2014, 2014-2019) of participants that passed through it, the Roots Peace Work Institute (PWI) sought to enroll young leaders of different backgrounds from across Europe, young people who were and are a voice and not an echo – eager to learn, to try, to grow… Like […]

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In News

The Council of Europe Youth Department receives YMCA Europe’s 2021 „Peace Award”

There could hardly be a better place and occasion to award YMCA Europe Local Capacities for Peace Award 2021: 38 young participants of “Be a Voice, not an Echo” were there at European Youth Center Budapest to witness Peace Medals go to YMCA in Kosovo and Youth Department – Council of Europe. YMCA Europe Executive […]

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In LCP, News

Let it be Campfire…

After the war, very few youth, social or cultural events can be seen in Artsakh. People seem to be ashamed to smile. Men are ashamed that they are alive, but their compatriots are not. Women are ashamed that their husbands are alive, but their friends’ husbands are not. Mothers are ashamed that they can hug […]

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In I am Roots, News

I am Roots: Maria Costa

Since its inception in 2012 and with two cohorts (2012-2014, 2014-2019) of participants that passed through it, the Roots Peace Work Institute (PWI) sought to enroll young leaders of different backgrounds from across Europe, young people who were and are a voice and not an echo – eager to learn, to try, to grow… Like […]

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In News

The Roots Flagship Is Back: Call For New Cohort of the Peace Work Institute

The Peace Work Institute is a one-year-long scheme requiring commitment of minimum two weeks for residential activities, including online meetings and homework assignments, specifically: October – November 2021: Online Induction Workshops to the course; December 3 – 9, 2021: One-week-long residential training session in Tbilisi (Georgia); January – April 2022: Setting up & implementation of […]

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In I am Roots, News

I am Roots: Marina Babayan

Since its inception in 2012 and with two cohorts (2012-2014, 2014-2019) of participants that passed through it, the Roots Peace Work Institute (PWI) sought to enroll young leaders of different backgrounds from across Europe, young people who were and are a voice and not an echo – eager to learn, to try, to grow… Like […]

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In I am Roots, News

I am Roots: Kristi Arakelova

Since its inception in 2012 and with two cohorts (2012-2014, 2014-2019) of participants that passed through it, the Roots Peace Work Institute (PWI) sought to enroll young leaders of different backgrounds from across Europe, young people who were and are a voice and not an echo – eager to learn, to try, to grow… Like […]

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In News, ProFest

Be a Voice not an echo | Call for participants

It is our pleasure to inform you that Council of Europe`s Programme Committee on Youth approved our proposal for a study session “Be a Voice not an Echo” to be held in cooperation with the European Youth Centre Budapest. The study session (a component part of Roots for Peace Project) will take place from the […]

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In I am Roots, News

I am Roots: Lika Kadagishvili

Roots gave me the chance to meet incredible people from all over the world. It made me think of many global issues around me and those concerning my personality. Thanks to this experience, I opened up to this new world and improved my communication skills.

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In News, World By Word

World by Word: Petrs story – After the war

When I was 5, in the summertime my family and I lived in a country house near St Petersburg. And one day my father, while doing some construction work, found an old bomb. And yes, it was fully operational. Why was it there? Because all that land near St. Petersburg (formerly named Leningrad) was one […]

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ROOTS for me is…

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Be the PEACE you want

https://youtu.be/DWrFZQYKGIY

Art4Peace

https://youtu.be/3-QH_ZjsEos

Be a piece of PEACE

https://youtu.be/tsiLQZbJ2Mo

Music for PEACE – Way of life

https://youtu.be/-uO4W_qYdCA

Peace Work Institute – First cohort

https://youtu.be/QU1m6g5viZA

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