peacecamp 2015 will take place in the Young Hotel Lackenhof. Lackenhof is a remote, tiny village in the Ötscher Mountains in Lower Austria, surrounded by mountains and forests, away from consumer society, a place that inspires calm and peace of mind. The last day will be spent in Vienna.
32 young people from four different communities and about twelve adults will participate in the peacecamp:
The peacecamp has a structured timetable consisting in a number of workshops, activities and recreation times.
All participants are requested to participate in all the activities and to provide feedback and assessment data upon request, at two different times before and after the peacecamp.
The aim of peacecamp
- to offer young people of different communities and societies an opportunity to meet and to get to know one another
- to offer opportunity to check images and fantasies about the other nations in the light of a real encounter with age mates from these nations
- to know and understand the current social, political and cultural reality of my own and the other participating nations
- to trace the personal, cultural, political, historical lines that led to the current situation of my own and the other countries
- to give young people tools for active citizenship
- to give young people opportunities to experiment with creative modes of problem-solving and with non-violent modes of coping with conflict
Participants
4 delegations of 8 pupils (age: 14 - 17 years):
- Hungarian delegation from the Szent László Gimnázium, Budapest
- Jewish-Israeli delegation from the Carmel Zvulun High School of Kibbutz Yagur
- Austrian delegation
- Palestinian-Israeli delegation from Hand in Hand School, Jerusalem
Adult staff:
- 1 accompanying teacher per group
- 2 artists/art therapists will lead art workshops, work on family albums, relaxation/meditation sessions
- 3 historians/teachers/educators – workshops “talks4peace”
- 1 group psychologist will lead the daily “large group-sessions”
- peacecamp-director
- 1-2 assistants
Requested Preparation
individual preparation
• “my family, my roots”: Each pupil is requested to bring a documentation of the history of his/her own family with pictures, documents, stories, etc.
• “4 questions”: Each pupil is requested to send us his/her questionnaire “4 questions” (see att.) on two different dates (will be notified).
group preparation
• culture evening: Each group is asked to prepare an evening which conveys the characteristics of its own culture.
• “talks for peace”: Pupils of each delegation are requested to prepare topics and to bring documentation (video film, poster) as listed in the document "assignments for talks4peace"
Suggestion for reading
• I shall not hate - Izzeldin Abuelaish
• We just want to live here - Amal Rifa’i and Odelia Ainbinder with Sylke Tempel
• The Diary of Anne Frank
General information about the peacecamp project
http://peacecamptexts.blogger.de/
http://2015.peacecamp.net/
Videos
A video film was produced by our team during peacecamp which can be seen in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGfbq9C6SCo (teaser, 8 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMvw7JKkWng (48 minutes)
peacecamp 2014 the media: http://2014.peacecamp.net/tags/peacecamp%20in%20the%20media/
Vienna, August 2014
Evelyn Böhmer-Laufer
Initiator and director of the peacecamp project
http://peacecamp.net/
