Peacemakers Academy
Published on Mar 25, 2016
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
A Peacemaker is someone who addresses conflict in constructive and healthy ways, and builds a better community to pre-empt future conflict
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We Create Peacemakers by:
- Instilling Courage
- Fostering Creativity
- Developing Compassion
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Peacemakers need the Creativity...
to find counter-cultural, nonviolent alternatives to conflict.
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Peacemakers need the Compassion...
to know that everyone needs kindness and respect.
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What does the curriculum teach?
- Recognising the sources of conflict
- Confidence, Self-Awareness, and Resiliency
- Inspring stories of other peacemakers
- Verbal and Physical skills for diffusing conflict
- Recognising and responding to bullies
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Who is this for?
- Active young leaders
- Young people who need identity and community
- Young people on the margins
- Bullies
- Victims of Bullies
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How is it taught?
- As a stand-alone club
- As an in-school course
- In a church or mosque
- In an after-school club
- In an interfaith club
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Or embedded within...
- A martial arts school
- A photography course
- A sports program
- A theatre company
- A dance or music group
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Basically, it fits anywhere with a consistent schedule and a regular group, where the principles of peace can be integrated with the activity!
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