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Last updated: 11/10/2008
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Participatory Peace Education

Building local conflict transformation models at a PBI workshop in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Photo: PBI.
Building local conflict transformation models at a PBI workshop in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Photo: PBI.

The PBI Indonesia Project Peace Education Program has been developed in response to requests by local parties and organisations in Indonesia that are concerned with peace building in Indonesia.

PBI works with local partners to develop strong networks and capacity for conflict transformation among local organisations, civic officials and religious groups.

Trainings and workshops

The PBI Peace Education Program primarily takes the form of Conflict Transformation trainings and workshops. As part of a strategy to both follow up and maintain sustainability of the program, a Training of Trainers is also offered at the request of a local partner. The goals of the workshops are to strengthen and build the capacity of local organisations and individuals to develop and effectively use conflict transformation models that are appropriate to the local situation. In this way, PBI hopes to empower local Peace Builders and Trainers, lessening and eventually ending the need for PBI's program.

The Peace Education Program has conducted over 30 conflict transformation workshops since the year 2000 in provinces including:

  • West Timor, (Kupang dan Kefamenanu)
  • Flores, (Bajawa, Larantuka, Maumere, Lembata-Lewoleba, Ende)
  • East Timor,
  • Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam,
  • Jakarta,
  • North Sumatra (Medan)
  • South Sulawesi.
  • Papua

Participants from these workshops have come from a wide cross-section of Indonesian society, including:

  • religious organisations
  • traditional leaders,
  • women's groups,
  • PBI's client organisations,
  • human rights lawyers and activists,
  • grass roots humanitarian organisations,
  • Academics, Students and University lecturers,
  • local level leaders, such as village leaders and Heads of Districts,
  • members from the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights.

Thus PBI's peace education program has reached peace builders at the grass roots, middle and upper levels of society.

Other Peace Education activities

Besides these trainings and workshops, PBI sub-teams carry out discussions focussed on the role of local people and organisations in Peace Building. These discussions create opportunities for communities to come together and consider ways which they make space for peace everyday.

PBI sub-teams also have small libraries of peace materials (primarily books and some videos) that are accessible by local organisations and individuals.

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