…I felt very proud and excited to become one of the ‘Rooters’ with the Peace Work Institute in 2012 and for what is about to happen]and considered it a responsibility… We, young people have used this space to build relationships across cultural dividers… I come from Georgia. It is a small country with two red points on the […]
Upon applying for one of the Peace Work Institute, I was nervous and excited, I wasn’t sure what I would experience. Now, I can truly say each project has blown my expectations out of the water. I was met with wonderful, friendly, intelligent peacemakers who have now become my dear friends. I have learnt vastly about peace […]
I felt a bit privileged to be invited to participate in this Project (‘Give Peace a Chance’ – ROOTS Tandem Group Project – Istanbul, Turkey) as a guest because I was neither a Peace Work Institute participant, nor a Tandem Group member. As all my fellow friends, I had certain concerns about the visit to Turkey and the […]
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 I needed them and what a significant impact they would have. I joined Peace Work Institute at the second training session in Berlin as a part of the Art4Peace project. Being a part of several YMCA TenSing […]
Before becoming a part of the Peace Work Institute family, I have heard about this project from my friends who were participating in the previous events held by the Roots. The stories they told, the emotions they had, the connections they kept with the international friends made me think of becoming one of them. I applied and got admitted. At first, I […]
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 I found out about the second generation of Peace Work Institute and the chance of being its participant, the first thing I did was approaching one person that I knew from the first Peace Work Institute […]
It is impossible to mention the most influential methodology or specific knowledge that I mostly use in my work or life. It has certainly been a strong complex of experiences that I now use as a basis for all the work and projects that I am implementing. A beautiful example of how Peace Work Institute influenced me is […]
It is hard to imagine going back to that place of anxiety eight years ago when my journey started with Roots for Peace, but also in that place it was impossible to imagine that I would be the person I am today. Imagination is a powerful thing, and it is intriguing in many ways. Peace […]
ROOTS – this is about who you are. It’s your family and your history, your victories and your pain. These roots go so deep that necessarily intercross with the roots of others – other people, other nations, other countries. RECONCILIATION – this is about how to deal with your pain and learn to live in […]
When I first meet my dear colleagues from YMCA Slovakia, I was just starting an independent cultural NGO in the same building as they were seated and, at that moment at the very centre of my bohemian life, a Christian non-profit organization crossed my path. That was a real surprise for me as my only […]
