I had the incredible privilege of embarking on a long-term placement with Home for Cooperation in Cyprus, all thanks to the ESC RESOLVE: Volunteering for Peace project. My time with Home for Cooperation was marked by a profound commitment to bicommunal events. Together with a group of dedicated individuals, including fellow European Solidarity Corps (ESC) … Continued
I want to share with you some of the amazing experiences I had during my time volunteering with Svitac, a non-profit organisation that promotes peace-building through integration with people in the multiethnic region of Brčko. I joined Svitac through the ESC RESOLVE: Volunteering for Peace project, a programme that offers young people the opportunity to … Continued
Erasmus+ Resolve Peace Camps was a reconciliation dialogue event which I attended in Nicosia (Cyprus) with participants from different countries: UK, Georgia, Turkey, Cyprus, Hungary and Spain. During a week and from multidisciplinary groups we have discussed and reflected about the Cyprus conflict. We also have attended different speeches from organizations that are actually working … Continued
In February, Asfar took part in a peace building and conflict transformation seminar hosted by CRISP in Berlin, and I was lucky enough to take part. We met a group of inspiring young people from Georgia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Ukraine and Moldova who had been trained by CRISP to deliver peace building programmes with young people … Continued
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