“We thought the money was real,” a group of young people from Vanadzor were saying with clear disappointment. But they still joined Peace Dialogue’s activists gladly and with genuine enthusiasm, becoming the most active participants of the flash mob entitled “Green Elections and You: Electoral Bazaar.” The initiative, which took place on
The participants, [...]
UNOY Peacebuilders is looking for partner organisations that are going to be present at the Rio +20 conference.
Rio +20, The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, will be taking place in Brazil at the end of June. Rio +20 will be focusing on seven priority areas: jobs, energy, cities, food, water, oceans and disasters, [...]
Continue Reading →Perex-CV, a member of UNOY Peacebuilders in the Eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo was present during the seminar on Peace Education held in The Hague February 4-5 2012. Here their delegate to the conference, Dunia Katembo, tells how he followed up on the conference:
“Sunday, February 19, 2012 a meeting with [...]
Continue Reading →Rahel Weldeab, from The National Union of Eritrean Youth and Students (NUEYS) – a network organisation of UNOY Peacebuilders, published an interesting insight on peacebuilding in the Horn of Africa. Rahel explained a long, hard way of her home-land, Eritrea, from the colonisation era to the current ‘no-war-no-peace’ situation that resembles peace [...]
Continue Reading →One of the major projects of UNOY Peacebuilders in 2011 was the ‘Learning by seeing, seeing by doing’ job shadowing project. This project helped to improve international cooperation between 10 youth-led network organisations from around the world and to strengthen their capacity. These organisations have a unique chance to send their [...]
Continue Reading →The International Secretariat (IS) at UNOY Peacebuilders is looking back on a very fruitful and intense meeting of its International Steering Group (ISG), which took place February 1 and 2 in UNOY’s office in The Hague. We locked ourselves in a meeting room for two long days with tea, coffee, local sweets and [...]
Continue Reading →The short animated film “More… More…” is a serial work by Lusine Ginosyan, a young painter from Vanadzor, and Armen Papyan, a PR Specialist at Peace Dialogue NGO. The movie stands for an experiment to once again remind society through creative and artistic means about the nonsense and tragedy of war.
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Continue Reading →In April 2010, an action research “Healthy Network Research” with five networks, one of which was UNOY Peacebuilders was initiated by PSO, a Dutch development organization focusing on capacity development at civil society organisations in developing countries.
The purpose of the action research was to understand the dynamics of networks and [...]
Continue Reading →The Peace Bag for EuroMed Youth, a project by the Anna Lindh Foundation coordinated by Fundació Catalunya Voluntària has won the United Nations Volunteers’ Online Volunteering Award 2011. The Peace Bag is a tool kit for youth for in peacebuilding, and has been co-edited by UNOY Peacebuilders. The project’s volunteers are [...]
Continue Reading →At the beginning of 2011, the UNOY Peacbuilders member Peace Dialogue launched the “Let’s see… Let’s choose… Let’s change…”-project, which is a part of its three-year youth strategy “See Who We Are, Choose Who We Want to Be.” The project is aimed at establishing a group of youth in Vanadzor who take responsibility [...]
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