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Examples of Projects

Below you will find some examples of activities run by Peace Messengers. If you have run any Peace Messengers activities in your branch and would like to share this experience, please send us pictures and short reports:

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Malaysian Example of Workcamp

In order to raise workcamp volunteers' awareness on peace-related issues, SCI Malaysia regularly invites Dr Anwar Fazal to come and give a presentation and talk to the volunteers. Dr Fazal has been a civil servant and long time activist for many causes in Malaysia, and is glad to come and share his knowledge and enthusiasm.

  

The participants found his lecture to be very contemporary, relevant to our time, humorous, and easy to digest. In  camp evaluations it was always highly rated. He is very generous and passionate in sharing the pamphlets on the Taiping Peace Initiatives, the culture of Peace, 99 ways to make it happen, and the Golden Rules. Find here his presentation.

 

Reflexion of an aspiring Peace Messenger – Laetitia Barbry, EVS and Peace Messenger at OWA-Poland, after the February 2008 Novi Sad training.

 

As it was an unclear and uncertain point for the people who attend the training themselves, I, therefore, would like to insist on the nature and work of the future and past Peace Messenger. They won’t be coming as Mahatma Gandhi himself, surrounded by light and peacefulness incarnation, they won’t be carrying a conflict -resolution –solution-pack-ready-to–apply, But they will work for and about peace by coming to workcamps to “Give something to think about and possibilities to do… .” 

 

By being “Link between SCI vision and its mission.”  The Peace Messenger will intend to be “A person that makes people at a workcamp aware of peace issues in their environment, in the workcamp itself and after their return home.”As I cannot speak for the 20 other people who attend the training (15 different countries).

 

Let me tell you how I see the next few months. Firstly the task and aim of Peace messenger won’t be possible without a close collaboration with Campleaders, a mutual decision of how, when and how long I (let’s assume from now on that I will be the next Peace messenger) will stay on each workcamp. The campleader play an important role as link with the project partner, the volunteers. The "Peace activities” themselves will be prepare beforehand but will be flexible regarding to group dynamic and camp work and topic. It will consist on games, workshops, discussion depending on the group, the time, topics will also be flexible but probably insist on Intercultural dialogue and learning. A last point is to specify. The “Peace Messenger” project as such, should be define, undertake, evaluate and leave a trace which will be useful not only as a report of activity sitting on a shelf but as a real tool for next generation at SCI international level. There will be a time for few people sitting around a table with the word “ booklet” between them , and this also have to be planned. So, let’s put a definitive end to this “article”: by inviting all campleaders, volunteers interested in this project  to contact me, check the spaceforpeace.net or also just think about a very simple question: “How do YOU see the Peace messenger work?”.

 

 

 

Presentation of Dr Anwal Fazar

Speeches_-_Road_to_Peace&_Acceptance.doc

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