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Irina Berdzenishvili: From a Rooter to a Media Consultant

“My story in Roots started seven years ago. In 2015, I attended a ProFest which still is one of my most beloved YMCA memories. In 2017, I got the honor to join Peace Work Institute, and since then I have been actively involved in different projects and activities within the Roots. There are things we […]

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What is Peace for me

What is PEACE for me? A short word with a deep meaning. Peace, as well as happiness, is difficult to evaluate. When we have it, we take it for granted. And it seems that’s how it should be. Because peace, love, joy and beauty are our nature, our divine foundation. We are enjoying the sun […]

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In Blogs, News, Peace Awards

Building The E-Bridge

“Before I tell you what the e-bridge is about and why it is so important for me as a young person, let me go back to the beginning of how the story started and how we came up with this project. Back in 2020, when the world got hit by COVID-19 and our lives changed […]

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Entering the “e-bridge”

“As our staff worked through the summer months preparing the e-bridge digital platform, we dreamed together about how young people would engage with the platform and how it would open new conversations and hopefully help our communities look forward. There was a new air of optimism in Kosovo as for the first time in the […]

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I changed everything in my life

…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 […]

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Before Peace Work Institute I was unsure of my true vision in life

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 […]

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In Blogs

Give Peace a Chance

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 […]

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Natasha Martynenko
In Blogs

We made a great step towards understanding each other

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 […]

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Peace Work Institute makes you understand that you matter

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 […]

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Irina
In Blogs

Peace Work Institute turned out to be the experience of a lifetime

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 […]

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    The Bridge
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    Irina Berdzenishvili: From a Rooter to a Media Consultant
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    The Eighth Roots & Next Quarterly is Issued

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