Peacebuilding UKTrial training workshops with teachers have been conducted using stories from Power of Goodness, and those teachers have already used the stories in their lessons at school. Their feedback to date affirms that this resource together with th…e manual is a helpful tool for creating high quality lessons. The wide selection of stories on different […]
Peacebuilding UK plans to conduct a new peace education/ conflict transformation project in Chechnya from April 2014, which will build on the work of previous projects (the ‘Little Star’ psychosocial assistance program, ‘Power of Goodness’ stories of nonviolence and reconciliation by Friends’ International Library). The project will use the internet based platform developed in 2013 […]
The second edition of this tri-lingual book in Chechen, Russian and English has, after several editing delays, finally been published! 6000 copies were printed in summer 2013 by the publishers Groznenskii Rabochii in Chechnya. The book can be viewed online: http://www.power-of-goodness.org/downloads.php The Power of Goodness is a peace education tool that can be used to raise awareness about […]
This is our first social media fundraising attempt for our Young Women’s Development Groups Project, born out of frustration with what should be an easily resolved situation: these three girls (in the photo) are from the mountain village of Dochu-Borzoi in Chechnya, where two weeks ago our colleagues started running an intensive, rights-based girls’ empowerment […]
In September 2012, Peacebuilding UK and nine local NGO partners in Chechnya began a new project ‘Young Women’s Development Groups’ to support vulnerable and marginalised young women in Chechnya. Peacebuilding UK and partners had previously been working to develop and fundraise for this project over the last 2 years. The first cohort of groups has […]
We are ready to go! The entire manuscript for the second edition of this tri-lingual book in Chechen, Russian and English is nearing completion and is in the hands of our Chechen publisher, Groznenskii Rabochii. The second edition is to be printed in September 2012. The Little Star psychologists will then begin a series of […]
On 5th October, a feature article in the New York Times by Seth Mydans quoted the editor of Groznensky Rabochy, an independent weekly newspaper: “Unemployment stands at 85 percent… Chechnya subsists on huge subsidies from Moscow that are not publicly accounted for”. UNDP found 80% unemployment in 2008 and official local government statistics put it […]
In July and August, five of the Little Star psychologists conducted trainings and arranged internships for 37 students of practical psychology from the Chechen State University in Grozny. Three groups of students (4 young men and 33 young women) attended separate 10-day trainings at the Little Star offices in Grozny. The trainings covered the following […]
In November, PBUK trustee Lucy Hannah visited our projects in Chechnya. Here are some highlights from her visit. “When there’s no LS seminar I feel sad. This is the place where we play, paint, put pictures on the wall and laugh,” Markha, 10, from the school in the Michurina region. Magomed, 12, has been going […]
Hello, and welcome back to the website if you’ve not been here for a while. I’ve had a tinker with the website and hopefully it should now be easier to access and receive regular news reports of what we are doing – particularly if you use RSS feeds (if not then find out more on […]