PeaceJam

PeaceJam is an international organisation that brings Nobel Peace Prize Laureates (people who've won the Peace Prize, like the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu) together with young people, and inspires and assists those young people to bring about positive change in their communities. There's more about PeaceJam on their website.

Since February, we’ve been working with a small group of committed volunteer students from Sidney Stringer School, devising a programme of peace and social justice activities as a “PeaceJam club”.

Some of the young people went to Bradford in March to the UK's second PeaceJam conference, where they met Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work in creating an international treaty to ban landmines and for the clearing of anti-personnel landmine fields.

A larger group attended a Peer Mediation training in April with L.E.A.P. - and the young people have run sessions for Barrs Hill students, and are planning to run a morning session for Southfields School Yr 6 students, as part of this year's Global Citizenship programme.

Over the summer holidays, the group is planning trips to an Slavery exhibition and a Holocaust memorial centre - and the L.E.A.P. trainers will be coming back to Coventry to run two days of Peer Mediation training for them.