PEACEFUL

PEACEFUL - P.E.A.C.E.F.U.L - Promoting Emotional Aid, Connection to Ecology and Future yoUth Leadership

PEACEFUL addresses the gaps of physical, professional, educational and operational support required by peace and non-formal education organisations working with vulnerable youth in times of conflict and post-conflict.
A consortium of civil society organisations from Palestine, Israel, Romania and Spain, connected through previous cooperation on peace education, came together on the background of the recent war in Israel and Palestine, to offer urgent support to vulnerable youth, broaden their perspective, and encourage them to be active citizens and agents of peace.
PEACEFUL will develop, test and pilot a new educational program, combining innovative tools of emotional trauma healing, nature-based practices and hands-on conservation actions. This program will be made freely available to youth organisations, youth workers and trainers in the partner countries, in the South Mediterranean region, and across Europe.
Based on a comprehensive needs analysis, PEACEFUL plans two training courses in Spain and Romania, introducing the project’s methodology, a capacity-building seminar in Palestine, and a pilot youth exchange in Romania, to test, evaluate and measure the impact of the developed tools on youth with fewer opportunities.
These mobility activities aim to emotionally engage youth, connect youth across borders around common ground, raise their environmental awareness and responsibility, and empower them to lead positive change.
A program manual, a dedicated website, audio and video materials will be created for the dissemination of the results, as well as multiplier events in the partner countries, and a social media campaign with a planned reach of hundred people physically and ten thousand people online.
Using a carefully planned sustainability strategy, PEACEFUL will make a positive and lasting impact on the support given to youth in regions of war, and their empowerment to move societies towards a peaceful future.

The partners:

1. ASOCIACION EXTREMUNDO, Spain - Coordinator

2. Asociatia Kalopsia, Romania, Coordinator

3. Hazon Halev, Israel

4. Holy Land Trust, Palestine