PEACE BUILDING

Peace Education and Non-violent training are the two components of peace building.

Peace Education

The objective of the SAPA Peace Education is to advance the growth of real peace in the South Asian Region by improving self understanding as...
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PEACE BUILDING

Peace Education and Non-violent training are the two components of peace building.

Peace Education

The objective of the SAPA Peace Education is to advance the growth of real peace in the South Asian Region by improving self understanding as well as relationship and the understanding between people and communities, thereby reducing the likelihood of violent behaviour and conflicts. In order to achieve this, SAPA works with people throughout the region regardless of nationality, ethnicity or religion.

Non-Violence Training

SAPA organizes workshop and action based non- violence training programmes across the region for helping people to realize the power of non- violence. These workshops are at three levels: (1) Grassroot Level, (2) National Level and (3) Regional Level The aim of training is to promote peace through non-violence action and to provide wide space for action based training for learners and peace workers.
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The South Asia Peace Alliance (SAPA) was launched at a consultation hosted by IHRICON in Nepal, 4-6 April 2006. This came at the end of a three year process of consultation and joint action in the South Asia region. Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have been represented from the...
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The South Asia Peace Alliance (SAPA) was launched at a consultation hosted by IHRICON in Nepal, 4-6 April 2006. This came at the end of a three year process of consultation and joint action in the South Asia region. Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have been represented from the outset; Afghanistan has been involved since November 2005.

The seeds had been planted in Dhaka, Bangladesh in April 2003 with a six day workshop “Peace is the way – conflict transformation in South Asia” involving 23 South Asia participants representing 14 South Asian voluntary organizations and people’s movements. People from the marginalized areas of North East India and the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh were included as were grassroots activists. The workshop was facilitated by Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW), Britain.

This led to three further invitations that enabled a total of a further forty six South Asian people to experience exposure and training in ahimsa (nonviolence) offered by Ekta Parishad and the Gandhi Peace Foundation in India. These experiences took place in Orissa (December 2004); Delhi and Madhya Pradesh (June 2005);Delhi,Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh (November 2005). “A Training of Trainers” workshop took place in Chitwan, Nepal (November 2006), A workshop on Peace Education was held in Colombo in May 2008, A Women‘s Training programme on peace and nonviolence was held in Katni(M.P) India(Sep 2008)
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SAPA recognizes the rich potential of youth energy, women’s power and the power of the community at large as a means of bringing about fundamental and necessary change. We believe that a South Asian community can emerge where women and men, girls and boys can rise above immense levels of fear...
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SAPA recognizes the rich potential of youth energy, women’s power and the power of the community at large as a means of bringing about fundamental and necessary change. We believe that a South Asian community can emerge where women and men, girls and boys can rise above immense levels of fear and discrimination to achieve their human potential and to transform their society.
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