Participation

The experience of the peaceful "Wende" in 1989 awakened in many people the hope that a Germany without a military could be possible. This hope led people from various civil initiatives in Halle together to found the Friedenskreis in 1990. The Friedenskreis Halle e.V. is an group of people of differing world views, religions, nationalities and political affiliations. We see peace not as a state of being or as a distant goal, and not simply as the absence of war. Peace is for us a means to a common, just and non-violent life together in diversity, where the personal development and liberty of the individual is made possible. The conception of this life together is always a new experience. This is why we try to explore, find and pass on new ways of doing so, while never forgetting to question the same. We are consequently involved in education, peace-associated activities and in projects for civil conflict resolution on both the domestic and international levels. Our work is made possible by paid and voluntary staff and carried through donations and public subsidies. Our current programme and projects

• Seminars and educational programmes in the areas of communication, conflict resolution, mediation, dealing with violence and learning how to speak out
• Consulting for initiatives and projects
• Lectures and seminars on current peace-associated themes
• Civil conflict resolution through the development of an educational and encounter centre in Jajce, Bosnia.
• Work camps, youth encounters and volunteer work in the countries of the Balkans.
• Counselling on military service and conscientious objection
• Cooperation in activities and campaigns against militarisation
• Coordination of the initiative "Zivilcourage: Bündnis für Gewaltlosigkeit, Demokratie und Toleranz in Halle"

training institute for teaching practice

CRISP organizes seminars, advanced trainings and workshops in the fields of civil conflict management and civic education. Our guiding principle is to adjust our projects to local needs. Therefor we develop and use especially simulation games as method. The work of CRISP promotes the confidence building between different population groups and enhance the understanding of political processes. Thereby we support the transformations in our target regions. We work especially with young people, who are willing to initiate and accompany a peaceful change in their societies.

We support teachers in Switzerland at all levels in their daily work by giving them impulses for their lessons which are directed towards a viable development in a global society. We sell and lend over 800 tried and tested teaching aids in German, French and Italian language. We provide teacher training. We inform and advise with relation to Global Education. We are part of a network of national and international organisations having similar aims.

bezev engages itself in various fields in order to improve the life of people with disabilities, especially in Africa, Asia and Latin America. bezev is an education and information centre and acts as an interface between theory and practice. bezev intends to establish a closer network between the academic knowledge of Special Education and the practical work of development cooperation agencies. bezev performs lobbying work in the area of development policy. People with disability should be involved on an equal footing in all development policy schemes.

Ecolo ist an environmental communication agency with core business in camapigning, PR, webdesign, online-communication tools and projectmanagment.

Weimar stands for art and culture, classicism and the modern age, cosmopolitan attitudes and nationalism, democracy and forced labour, even genocide. Weimar is a town of European importance. Our centre is situated in a small park in the centre of Weimar. The European Youth Education and Meeting Centre (EJBW) is an institution for political education, intercultural learning as well as theatre and pedagogical work. We invite children, young people and multipliers from Weimar, Thuringia, Germany and all over the world to come to our - national and international - seminars. Our centre is available to you for co-operation or just as a guest house. Creative thinking, independent judgement, solidarity and responsible action - these are the aims of our educational work.

Aktion Tagwerk organizes yearly the nationwide campaign "your day for Africa" the idea is easy and remains topical: schoolgirls and boys in Germany go on one day of the school year to work instead of school and donate their wage to educational projects in five countries of Africa. The campaign is accompanied by comprehensive offers of global learning, as for example holding speeches at the participant schools, photo exhibitions, a newspaper for the campaign etc.