Illustration titled "Peacemaker", from the Internationally Acclaimed, Award Winning Book Operation Warhawks - How Young People Become Warriors
Acclaimed at the Soviet Peace Fund Conference in Moscow and published in Russia by Moscow's Library of Foreign Literature and Magistr Publications.
PROGRAMS: MODEL
The need for a model program is obvious in that it can give one the expertise of what has been worked out in the process of implementing such programs. Two examples of Youth Peace Literacy model programs are as follows:
The Liberian Project
Children of War – Brave New Child – Liberating the Children of Liberia and the World
Out of one of the most violent civil wars in recent history comes the inspiring and courageous story about twenty children of war and their dedicated teacher at their peace school in Buchanan, Liberia. These children were raised in war; they know nothing else. Their teacher, Marvin Davis, having had to flee Liberia because his life was in danger came back to teach the children of this war torn country about what caused the war they just had gone through. Putting his own life on the line, and with his father having died in the war, he decided that he had to help these young people to understand and resolve conflict nonviolently lest there be another and perhaps worst civil war out of the ashes of the recent one.
The Halifax Project
Youth at Risk
There is a critical need for youth living in residential care to learn how to solve conflict peacefully. These young people are surrounded by conflict in their home, school, peer group and surrounding communities. Due to disadvantaged life circumstances, youth living in residential care are at an increased risk of becoming either the bully or the victim. Although conflict education is a needed resource for this population, the MAPSTARS program was launched during a time when both the media and police reported an increase in youth becoming involved in, and victimized, by swarmings in their communities. The main goal of the project was to educate and prevent crime related incidents including, assaults, uttering threats, property damage, substance use/abuse, as well as decrease the number of calls placed to the Halifax Regional Police (HRP). In 2003, the Reigh Allen Centre placed 257 calls to the HRP for many of the above-mentioned crime related incidents.