📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Peace Studies Center Sievershausen (Antikriegswerkstatt Sievershausen) was established in the premises of the Sievershausen Lutheran Church community more than 50 years ago. During that time, the Vietnam War escalated. Nowadays there are several buildings, including a guesthouse and the well-known "Anti-War House" with an assembly hall for our events, located in a park-like area along with a church older than 1000 years on the edge of the village. The peace center shows through its diverse program, that peace work has political, historical, educational and cultural aspects. Throughout the year one can visit exhibitions, author readings, lectures and many cultural events. The peace education offers of the seminar area include teaching units, trainings for school classes and church groups on current and historical topics.
💼 What the programme involves
The participants will work on the area around the garden chess and build simple table benches for it. In addition, they should create an information board with an integrated insect hotel for the orchard nearby.
Anyone who appreciates creative work can contribute to the implementation of the UN's sustainability goals into large-format pictures, to be exhibited in the Anti-War-House.
You will learn some essentials of peace work and receive basic training in non-violent conflict management by professional trainers. During the second week, Human Rights are being discussed and we will visit the memorial in the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Because of their importance and in relation to the aforementioned creative work, we also discuss the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.
Volunteers will have the opportunity to spend an evening in a German family and reverse, the group will invite the people of the village and region to an “Evening of encounter“ (Abend der Begegnung) at the Peace Center.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The accommodation for the participants is offered in rooms with four beds each. There are bed sheets available. Food is prepared together in the kitchen of the seminar house.
📍 About the location
For the leisure time, the group can use facilities of the seminar house and make an excursion to Hannover or Braunschweig.
The Peace Center is at the verge of a village with about 2500 inhabitants. Sievershausen lies 30 kilometers east of the Lower Saxony provincial capital Hanover on the freeway to Berlin.
