Play for Peace is an experiential learning and unlearning method for instilling value education and
conflict transformation skills in the lives of youths, teenagers, adults and children
75 youth undergone Play for Peace training to be facilitative leaders in their communities.
“Play for Peace playgroups” formed in 30 diverse villages by Youth trainers.
8 Play for Peace clubs formed in 8 hub locations
More than 300 children, teenagers, and youth are doing weekly play sessions to master the art of win-win
We play non-competitive,
non-violent games and activities to practice and experience,
Play for Peace
Develop our sensitivity for children
Develop capacities on conflict transformation
Develop our imagination on peace
Develop our sense of goodness
Develop our sense of humor
Develop our self-esteem
Develop children’s Emotional and Cognitive growth
Develop capacities on critical thinking
Develop capacities moving beyond knowledge and
understanding to analysis, synthesis, and creation
The idea is to work with youth from the communities to develop them as facilitative leaders in the community.
Youth ideally from different communities worked together as mix teams in a safer space to be trainers of Play for peace
while developing trust and friendship with youth from other communities.
Youth trainers brought teenagers and children together in their locality at the regular frequency in playing sessions.
Teenagers and children together forming “Play for Peace clubs” in their locality as well as in regions.
In the evolving process, we experienced.
Our common humanity
It transcends the artificial distinctions that divide us.
When we are playing with someone,
We don’t play with their skin, color or cultural identity;
We play with them as a person.
We have a universal, non-threatening platform
We can come together
Play and learn
Play and unlearn
Play and Grow
‘Play creates a gateway to moments when differences dissolve, fear melts away and
we see what connects us rather than what divides us.’
In play, we become our true selves.
In play, we open up to learning.
In play, people discover, and indeed experience, a universal and purposeful connection.
Play becomes the catalyst, which inspires people from different cultures to reach across barriers and boundaries.
Therein lies the potential for entire community to begins to unlearn previously held biases
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