Choose Peace!
Start date: Dec 1, 2013,
Youth exchange project - “Choose Peace!” takes place in one of the most popular sea resort of Georgia _ Kobuleti, during of 5-12th of April, 2012. The project will last during 8 days (including arrival and departure). It will bring together 40 young people from 8 different countries, from EU and EECA.The themes of the project are: developing ideas of peace, thinking out the creative methods to contribute peace-building by volunteering, promoting voluntary by the help of ex-EVS and permanent local volunteers in their countries, learning to avoid the conflicts by using the methods of non violence communication, dialogue among young people from different countries by different backgrounds, promoting solidarity and tolerance without any discrimination by working together in international groups, stimulate better understanding of diversities, and developing awareness against of xenophobia. The YE will include learning conflicts as between people and societies, among countries too. Almost all involved countries have had political or historical conflicts between them, and some continues even in modernity. The learning methods of project will be through non-formal and in-formal education. For to achieve the principal goals of YE we’ll use different activities, such as: group discussion/presentations, special-cases, role-plays, Living Library, “World Cafe”, team-building activities, flash-mobs, intercultural evenings, peaceful demonstration involving local communities and other creative activities.