Peace Child International empowers young people to take responsibility for peace, human rights and the environment through education, leadership development and direct participation in the events that shape our world community.
This it does through producing publications, educational programmes , musicals, conferences which it promotes to its affiliate youth groups throughout the world.
Peace Child shares its name with a tradition In Papua New Guinea: when warring tribes of head-hunters made peace, they exchange a child.
The children grow up with the others' tribe and if in the future, conflict threatens between the tribes, those children would be sent to negotiate a peace between them. Such a child was called a "Peace Child."
This legend represents the important role we believe young people can play in changing the world.
PCI is an educational charity registered with United Nation’s ECOSOC and with the UN Dept. of Public Information(DPI). With a network of more than 500 youth eco-groups in 150 countries around the world.
It works closely with the United Nations and its agencies to empower young people to support its member states to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, educate about sustainable development, and to promote the concept of Youth-led Development.
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Be the Change! Program: supporting youth-led community development. This youth-led development program supports, trains and enables young people around the world to design and implement concrete development projects in their own communities.
The Be the Change!(BTC) Programme was mandated by the delegates to Peace Child’s 1st World Youth Congress - the Millennium Young People's Congress (MYPC) - held in Hawaii in 1999.
Since then, Peace Child has awarded small grants to over a hundred projects which vary from digging wills, making bridges, setting up small cooperatives, running training projects etc.
Education for Sustainability, our programme called "Be the Change! Challenge(BTCC)" programme: promotes Sustainable Lifestyles: This programme is specifically designed for schools in England – but is free for schools and teachers in any country to translate, adapt and promote in their own schools.
It is sponsored by the UK Government to encourage behaviour change in young people’s consumption patterns, energy use, food, recycling etc. through getting students to sign a lifestyle contract(LSC) with themselves.
Different versions of the contract have been developed for primary and secondary students. The LSC invites students to make 5 pledges to do different things such as turning off taps when cleaning teeth , turning off lights etc. If they fulfil their pledges for 4 weeks, they are awarded lifestyle certificates.
Publications: Youth-created books on key global issues: After the success of their first book, "Rescue Mission - a children's edition of Agenda 21," which sold close to half a million copies and was translated into 23 languages, Peace Child was invited to create a whole series of youth-created books for the United Nations - including one on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, one on the UN Environment Programme's Global Environment Outlook and several others. All are written, illustrated, edited and designed by young people from many countries.
It has also produced a handbook on carrying out youth-led development and a book on Co-Mangagement. (see: www.co-management.info) Faith In Europe is a current project – conducting a survey throughout all European countries in looking at both the faith people have in European Institutions – the European Commission, Parliament, currency, constitution etc. - and how they regard faith in general throughout Europe.
Congresses: Peace Child in partnership with host countries has produced the World Youth Congresse series focusing on the UN Millennium Development Goals and youth-led development.
The first was held in Hawaii in 1999, the second in 2003 in Morocco, the third in Scotland in 2005. The next Congress will be held in Quebec City in 2008 and will be preceded by a Festival of youth-led development projects around the world.
Peace Child Musical Play: For its first 10 years, Peace Child's main activity was bridging the gap between East and West by bringing together young people from the USA and USSR in the musical play, Peace Child.
A tour of this play brought the first Soviet young people to the USA on a youth exchange. A new Peace Child 2000 play has just been published which explores how young people bridge the much wider gap between North and South, and between the rich and poor nations of the world.
Every Peace Child play is written by young people and their adult directors, drawing on the songs and the script/study guide of the original. Each play is set in the future – 2025-2030: on Peace Day, children of the future look back and tell the story of how their generation brought peace, an end to war, poverty and environmental degradation to their world.
Other Peace Child performances have looked at the conflicts in Southern Africa, Central America, the Middle East, the Balkans, and the inner cities of the United States.
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Internships in the Peace Child offices around the world, funding for youth-led development projects twice a year, and the change to help create publications.
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We are currently working on a new Peace Child Website to replace our current one on peacechild.org.
The last big update was done in 2005 along the World Youth Congress in Scotland.
Now this year
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on the 4th World Youth Congress in Quebec City, we will introduce an all new Website with tons of new information and features.
Keep checking peacechild.org for the big launch in August!
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