Improve Skills and Knowledge in the Field of Volunteering in Conflict Areas: Key Concepts and IVS Approach

The Raising Peace Campaign aims at strengthening and improving the visibility of the role of the International Voluntary Service movement in the construction of Peace and Human Rights, through raising awareness, training activists and making advocacy and networking. In the framework of the Campaign, CCIVS proposes an online Training Course focused on volunteering in conflict areas, featuring the following innovative elements:

• the presence of 2 experts from the Centre for Trust Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR) of the University of Coventry and the University of Leicester;
• the presence of a graphic harvester, who will accompany the group during a day of the course to provide graphic facilitation and production;
• interactive and creative non-formal education methods, proposed by 2 experienced trainers from the International Voluntary Service (IVS) movement, who will present contents focused on the history of the IVS movement and the impact of IVS workcamps and projects in peace-building, in the past and now;
• an online platform accessible to the participants, which will contain additional contents, reading material, homework and learning resources.

During this session, we will define key concepts: peace, conflict, volunteering in conflict areas, we will explore the IVS approach: history and study cases. Why are we volunteering in conflict areas today? [featuring Graphic Facilitation!]