No More War http://www.no-more-war.net working group within Service Civil International, set up by SCI Italy, SCI Austria and SCI Germany branches Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:55:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Peace Caravan – First steps, join the seminar in Scotland! http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/02/17/peace-caravan-join-the-trek-through-europe/ http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/02/17/peace-caravan-join-the-trek-through-europe/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:57:21 +0000 Georg http://www.no-more-war.net/?p=1101

Picture 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:

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!

]]> http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/02/17/peace-caravan-join-the-trek-through-europe/feed/ 0 Interview with Erica Chenoweth… http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/02/16/interview-with-erica-chenoweth-2/ http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/02/16/interview-with-erica-chenoweth-2/#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:31:03 +0000 Twitter http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/02/16/interview-with-erica-chenoweth-2/ Interview with Erica Chenoweth Maria J. Stephan about power and superior efficiency of nonviolence: http://t.co/22HvAoc5

]]> http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/02/16/interview-with-erica-chenoweth-2/feed/ 0 Interview with Erica Chenoweth… http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/02/16/interview-with-erica-chenoweth/ http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/02/16/interview-with-erica-chenoweth/#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:58:51 +0000 Twitter http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/02/16/interview-with-erica-chenoweth/ 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”

]]> http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/02/16/interview-with-erica-chenoweth/feed/ 0 Here a very interesting and sh… http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/01/31/here-a-very-interesting-and-sh/ http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/01/31/here-a-very-interesting-and-sh/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:07:47 +0000 Twitter http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/01/31/here-a-very-interesting-and-sh/ Here a very interesting and short :) but good introduction to nonviolence – probably lacks more religions: http://t.co/wLNqBRVG

]]> http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/01/31/here-a-very-interesting-and-sh/feed/ 0 What’s going on in Syria? and why the world is just watching http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/01/29/whats-going-on-in-syria-and-why-the-world-is-just-watching/ http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/01/29/whats-going-on-in-syria-and-why-the-world-is-just-watching/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:00:36 +0000 Matteo http://www.no-more-war.net/?p=1074 I wonder how come the world seem just to be watching what’s going on in Syria, where there has been some say over 5,000 deaths?

I wanted to share this intersting article that made me think a lot… it’s just the absence of OIL the difference with Lybia?

The Truth Behind the Coming “Regime Change” in Syria by Shamus Cooke

You can find the full article here:

www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28853

]]> http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/01/29/whats-going-on-in-syria-and-why-the-world-is-just-watching/feed/ 1 Searching for places world wide to do long term volunteering? http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/01/14/searching-for-places-world-wide-to-do-long-term-volunteering/ http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/01/14/searching-for-places-world-wide-to-do-long-term-volunteering/#comments Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:21:51 +0000 Georg http://www.no-more-war.net/?p=1043

Just found this information on the SCI International twitter tweet stream uhm thingy thing… :)

If you ever thought about travelling somewhere else and participating for a few months or a whole year in local projects there, gaining experience and working within the SCI family, here might just be your chance :D

To shortly cite the SCI LTEG group on what LTV is about:

What is LTV?

LTV stands for Long Term Volunteering project, which is an exchange of volunteers between SCI branches (and/or partner organizations), where volunteer commits to the project for longer than 1 month. It is open to any volunteer without a limit of age or any other. There is wide variety of projects and you can have a taste of it by taking a look at the Vacancies List here.

All the projects are non-profit and do not aim to replace paid labour in the organization.

As written above, on this website you can now find an updated list of projects, created by the LTEG group within SCI, where you can do long term volunteering. On 80 pages, projects in the following countries are described (ordered roughly as in the pdf):
Nigeria, Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Belgium, Croatia, Great Britain, Moldova, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, Palestine, Turkey and USA.

More information on application procedures and requirements can be found over at this LTEG-webpage, including the following quote on who can participate (keep in mind, that this is for the LTV positions, the EVS positions have different requirements):

These are the recommendations for finding suitable volunteers for projects:

• There is a minimum age of 18 for a volunteer becoming a LTV. Volunteers are expected to have a certain amount of “life experience”, meaning that s/he can look after one’s self, work independently and be able to deal with problems that might occur during the time the volunteer is abroad.
• The applicant should be open-minded towards the project and motivated for the WORK of the project (not only a travelling experience).
• The applicant should know what volunteering is about, preferably by having participated in SCI workcamps.
• Preferably the volunteer should be interested in SCI and wants to be involved in the SCI branch of the hosting country (if one exists).
• SCI leaves it to the project to decide about specific requirements, for example age limitations, language skills or other special skills. This is in contrast to workcamps, where special skills are generally not required.

]]> http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/01/14/searching-for-places-world-wide-to-do-long-term-volunteering/feed/ 0 War Resisters International Ha… http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/01/13/war-resisters-international-ha/ http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/01/13/war-resisters-international-ha/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:51:03 +0000 Twitter http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/01/13/war-resisters-international-ha/ War Resisters International Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns now also in Arabic: http://t.co/NTHBDZP4

]]> http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/01/13/war-resisters-international-ha/feed/ 0 Why Civil Resistance Works http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/01/12/why-civil-resistance-works/ http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/01/12/why-civil-resistance-works/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:10:06 +0000 Georg http://www.no-more-war.net/?p=1034 Here I present a video recording of a speech by Erica Chenoweth focusing on her research  and that of others on why civil resistance works. Erica Chenoweth presents her findings including data on nonviolent resistance, creating a strong link between successful resistance against violence and using nonviolent methodology:

]]> http://www.no-more-war.net/2012/01/12/why-civil-resistance-works/feed/ 0 Good report about the street a… http://www.no-more-war.net/2011/12/20/good-report-about-the-street-a/ http://www.no-more-war.net/2011/12/20/good-report-about-the-street-a/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:24:14 +0000 Twitter http://www.no-more-war.net/2011/12/20/good-report-about-the-street-a/ Good report about the street action seminar: http://t.co/5Pfqjf6W Thanks a lot to Oksana for writing and publishing it :)

]]> http://www.no-more-war.net/2011/12/20/good-report-about-the-street-a/feed/ 0 SCI has many diamonds to disco… http://www.no-more-war.net/2011/12/18/sci-has-many-diamonds-to-disco/ http://www.no-more-war.net/2011/12/18/sci-has-many-diamonds-to-disco/#comments Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:04:29 +0000 Twitter http://www.no-more-war.net/2011/12/18/sci-has-many-diamonds-to-disco/ SCI has many diamonds to discover: A project blog from Russia with memories (in Engl. and Russ.) from WW II prisoners: http://t.co/A459UmMt

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