Saturday, June 30, 2012

Coming Projects

Hola Todos!

We are now in a process of organizing new projects! They will be held on September, so we are really busy and excited currently to manage everything until that time. One of them is:
                                                                                        

                                                          360º Peace in Media - (2-9 sept)

It aims to provide young people a deeper understanding of the relationship between media and peace-building and equip them with skills in analysing critically the freedom of expression and information in the contexts of conflict (social, military, interests). Focusing on the role of media in conflict, the course will raise awareness about the important role played by the media and the educational role that it has, especially in developing the values of peace, justice, freedom, mutual respect and understanding, as well as human right.The final result of the training will be a travelling photo exhibition to be held in partner organizations’ countries after the training, and will last for 6 months. This follow-up phase of the project has been planned in consultation with all project partners, reaching approximately 21.750 and 3,800 youth and adults – as direct and indirect beneficiaries of the project.



Peace Bag: PEACE BAG 2012 is a training course that aims to build the training capacities and skills of young educators, trainers and multipliers on mainstreaming peace education and intercultural dialogue through non-formal learning methodologies.


Sunday, January 29, 2012

Focus on Practise!





I attended a Training Course called "Focus on: video and photo as tools for peacebuilding" in Lizbon-Portugal between 13-21 November. It was really a pleasure being there and breathe in that atmosphere. I think it was a bit different from the other usual trainings as this was more based on practical side and discussions rather than just theory. All participants enjoyed and used every moment to learn, create, experience and something new so we felt like really productive. As well as taking a look the general definitions of peace, stereotypes, media, conflicts, identity, most important point was to feel the real team building to create something new both through video and photography. That was the spark leading us discover and creative new things.
  Especially the preparation part of the TC for videos and photos was a lot fun. Eveybody and everygroup were trying to produce something. After finding the topic it was more easy to get closer our main aim.
 But at the end it was a real success! We produced 3 qualified videos and a photo exhibiton in which I worked in. Then we showed all the videos to the people who are working there and made the exhibiton on the youth hostel. It was really a pleasure too see what you produced after all your efforts!