About us

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Peace School is a workshop-based peace work project, maintained by the Peace Union of Finland. Peace School offers peace education with participatory drama methods for school and students groups. The headquarters for the Peace School is located at the Peace Station in Helsinki, Finland.

At the Peace School, students participate in activity days. They deal with peace and development education themes such as conflict prevention, non-violence, human rights, global responsibility and global development issues. The working methods are participatory drama, role play, process drama and other participatory methods. These methods are intended to awaken each student’s own critical thinking and to increase their empathy and dialogue skills as well as their respect for diversity.

During the year 2022 the Peace School was visited by 1330 students. The workshops are held in 5 different cities in Finland: Turku, Tampere, Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa. Peace School also offers trainings for teachers and youth leaders about global education through participatory drama methods (during year 2022 approximately 650 participants). The working languages are Finnish, Swedish and English.

 

What does Peace School do?

The Peace School offers workshops and activity sets aimed at schoolchildren and students, dealing with global issues of peace and sustainable development as well as human rights, with the help of drama and participatory methods.

  • The Peace School office is located in the Peace Station, Pasila, Helsinki
  • The Peace School workshops are implemented as school visits in Tampere, Turku and the capital region, as well as by remote connections around Finland.
  • A Peace School activity set usually consists of two workshops for each participating group, as well as a pre- and middle assignment. The Peace School contents can be customized according to the needs of the participating group.
  • The Peace School is free of charge for educational institutions.
  • The Peace School workshops are always facilitated by two trained Peace School instructors.
  • The maximum group size is 28 participants and a teacher.

We also organize global education training for professionals and students of teaching and education. More than 30 annual trainings are carried out in the metropolitan area, Turku, Tampere, Joensuu and Jyväskylä.

This is Peace School

Peace School strives to educate and foster non-violent culture for children. We create and develop new methods of peace and global education.

The Peace School challenges Finnish students to think about global development issues, peace and nonviolence in their own lives, and conflicts at a global level. It is possible to customize the content of the content according to the group’s wishes.

The Peace School is a project maintained by Peace Union of Finland.

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