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Peace Camp - 2004
The Youthbridge Initiative is pleased to announce that our third annual Peace Camp, to be held in Murau , Austria , will host 28 youth from the Vukovar area from August 19-28, 2004. This represents an almost fifty percent increase in participants from the past year.
Camp is expanding in more ways than one this: in addition to more participants, an advanced curriculum will be offered for those students who are returning to camp a second or third time. Additionally, we will pilot a Peer Leader program, designed to offer leadership opportunities for exemplary young people who have already participated at camp twice. The focuses of the three curricula are as follows:
First year curriculum
- conflict management
- local peacemaking
- compassionate communication
- empowerment
- community service
Second year curriculum
- personal and cultural identity
- stereotypes
- advanced conflict management
- human needs and human rights
- mediation
- community service
Peer Leader Program
In addition to taking part in second year seminars, Peer Leaders will attend discussion groups on peace activism, will assist during many first year seminars, and will take over leadership roles on a number of camp projects.
We look forward to meeting and getting to know this special group of young people. We hope to exchange ideas as well as challenge and motivate these students to bring positive change to their communities.
The Youthbridge Initiative is also pleased to announce that we will be joined this summer by an intern, Brian Israel. Brian has spent the past year collecting postgraduate law experience at the University of Bristol and will finish his studies in International Studies- Political Science with a European Emphasis at the University of California, San Diego in 2004. Brian is currently working as an intern at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice in San Diego, focusing on their organization Worldlink (www.youthworldlink.org ). He has gained additional experience in international relations and peace building as a “Peace Ambassador” at the 2002 Silk Road to the Future Conference in Beijing and was a 2004 recipient of the Chris Borton Memorial Scholarship.
We are excited about welcoming Brian to our team this summer.
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