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Engaging Children and Teenagers
in Peace Culture Education and Peacebuilding
Goharik Markosyan and Julieta Chaloyan
(Armenia)
For the past five years, the NGO Women for Development, established in 1997 in Gyumri, Armenia, has been implementing a project called Peace and Conflict Resolution Education in the Schools of Gyumri, which is aimed at promoting peace culture and conflict resolution skills. As part of the project, 10 Peace Education Centers (PECs), involving about 250 students, are now operating in the schools of the Shirak district. As a member of the International Peace Education and Conflict Resolution Network established in 2005 in New York, Women for Development cooperates with many non-profit and governmental organizations implementing similar projects, both in Armenia and abroad. In this article we share our experiences in teaching Peace Culture and peacebuilding.
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