Peace Caravan is a project that gives the opportunity to its participants to lead, together with local SCI branches and their volunteers, peace related activities. The participants, split in 4 consecutive teams, will travel during the summer of 2012 from Finland to Catalonia, while passing through Easter Europe.
Archive for February, 2012
by wfmillar
Peace Caravan, something a lot of you may have heard about or even discussed with us in the last month. And the first step, a seminar concentrating on working on the peace caravan and preparing volunteers for it is finally only about a month away – from 17th ot 24th of March .
If you have not yet filled in an application form and sent it to your branch, there are still some places left. Do that this weekend if possible, especially if you require a visa for coming to Great Britain as it will take place in Scotland, near Loch Lomond.
The following nineteen SCI partners and branches are eligible to send volunteers! If you are from one the branches & partners below, then you can directly send your application form (see at the end of the post) to them, so they can approve your application and forward it to IVS Great Britain.
If you are not from one of the partner organisations above, you can still ask
a) the partner organisation listed below, if you live in the same country
b) your own organization to forward your application to IVS-GB
In the latter cases, you should be aware that the chances of being accepted is not so high, due to funding-restrictions.
Following the list of participating organisations:
- SCI-Belgium,
- VIA-Belgium,
- SCI Germany,
- Utilapu – Hungary,
- Youth Memorial Perm, Russia,
- AVI- Moldova,
- SCI Slovenia (zavod-voluntariat),
- SVIT-Ukraine,
- VCZ Croatia,
- KVT Finland,
- Young Georgians for Europe (mail to YGE: youngs@caucasus.net),
- SCI Catalonia,
- SCI Austria,
- VSI Ireland,
- SCI Madrid,
- SCI Italy,
- Genctur (Turkey),
- IVS Great Britain
And here you can download the application form: “Preparing for Peace application & info“, which also contains more information on the seminar itself and some background knowledge!
We will write more about the European No-More-War peace caravan on “No borders for peace” in the following weeks – the project will span thirteen European countries, volunteers traveling through them, and a lot of branches and partners cooperating to make this project of the No-More-War group and the Peace Messengers work!
Picture by wfmillar
If you have not yet filled in an application form and sent it to your branch, there are still some places left. Do that this weekend if possible, especially if you require a visa for coming to Great Britain as it will take place in Scotland, near Loch Lomond.
The following nineteen SCI partners and branches are eligible to send volunteers! If you are from one the branches & partners below, then you can directly send your application form (see at the end of the post) to them, so they can approve your application and forward it to IVS Great Britain. View full article »
Interview with Erica Chenoweth Maria J. Stephan about power and superior efficiency of nonviolence: http://t.co/22HvAoc5
Interview with Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan on their current research on the power and superior efficiency of nonviolent protest: http://t.co/22HvAoc5
Some short snippets from the interview:
"nonviolent resistance campaigns were twice as likely to achieve success compared to their violent counterparts" "particularly against dictatorships, that nonviolent resistance is overwhelmingly more effective than armed struggle" "the effectiveness of nonviolent resistance is actually increasing over time (...) people are learning, not only that it works but how it works"
