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Escuela de Paz– Schools of Peace Foudation, Colombia is an NGO founded in 2001. The activities of the Schools of Peace started in 1997 as a school project, in 1999 joined with other 5 schools, and started a collective construction of peace education programs. Due to this program in December 1999, Schools of Peace won the Ibero American Santillana Award in Peace Education.

Our work in Colombia could be seen as a model of working for peace in a country, which is involved in an armed situation. Working in a country stricken by high rates of violence implies both inconveniences and opportunities at the same time. Predictably, inconveniences are related to the experience of violence – at direct, structural and cultural levels – in Colombian society. But there are opportunities that emerge from recognition of this reality. In such a way, the understanding of the damages brought by the conflict situation plays as a booster for the undertaking of reconstruction and reconciliation programs in the middle of the armed conflict. We saw the need to invite all of civil society to work for the cultural change through the Culture of Peace. Therefore, we welcomed local NGOs to work together in a collaborative way along with public administrators in order to include Culture of Peace programs in the public policy agenda.

Our current programs are:

Our projects aim to take action and position associated entities as main actors for lobbying and campaigning on topics such as social conflictuality, raising awareness of violence among young generations, which we project the entire human race will be facing in the 21st century. For this sake, the sharing of experiences and work methods between entities committed to peace education is a fruitful opportunity.

At the moment, our purpose is to continue enriching the network at a national level, for we are convinced it will decisively contribute to the creation of a sharable peace education expertise. Our belief is that PEACE is the main goal of human rights.


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