Category: Peacebuilding
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The Impact of Peace Clubs
By empowering students and teachers with the knowledge and skills for peacebuilding and conflict resolution, Peace Club Lusaka is investing in building a more peaceful future.
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Holistic Peacebuilding in Schools
In these peace clubs, students learn about ways to address the problems that they face at school and at home, and are supported to come up with creative, nonviolent solutions. Peace Club Lusaka’s main activities are: teacher trainings, monitoring and evaluation of the peace clubs, and workshops with parents and community members.
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The Little Book of Conflict Transformation by John Paul Lederach
I agree with John Paul to say conflict is a normal thing in human relationships. It is inevitable to have conflicts because we all view things differently even if we may be blood related. However, it is a shame that conflict is viewed as a bad and negative thing and people tend to avoid it…
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Learning as a Seed Cohort
While all the seeders are working with different partners and in different places in Zambia, we regularly connect as a team to learn, reflect, and have fun together. In July we were able to meet in Lusaka for two weeks of learning and team building.
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My Awkward Experience with Incarcerated People
Zambia correctional service facilities aims at assisting inmates in becoming new, reformed people who will no longer harm others. These institutions work to address their psychological concerns while also educating them. ZCS attempt to correct their errors by educating them on what they did wrong.
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Violence is a Weak Power
Active nonviolence is a silent power, a gradual influence that draws its strength from mutual inspiration, and that grows from a few to many voices that the oppressor can no longer shut down.
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Soul Searching
What does it mean to be nonviolent? How do we avoid fantasy violence? Is helping in times of war enabling war? What will we do when faced with danger? These questions are difficult to answer.
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Seek Peace and Pursue it
The call to live a life of non-violence is not easy or straight forward, and it becomes even more complicated when we are in contexts that are unfamiliar. Our contexts shape our worldview, values, morals, and understanding of what is considered violence or peace.
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Reckless Love
As a Christian who believes in non- violence, I must aim to love others without considering what the other person has to offer. I believe that peace, non-violence, justice cannot come into existence if love is absent. Love makes the world go round.
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Refining the Mind
I intend my two years of service to be written in the sand of time that peace and justice were reconciled, love and kindness became a norm, and happy living becomes the new lifestyle in the communities and people I share a moment with.