📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Peace Studies Center Sievershausen (Antikriegshaus Sievershausen) was established in the rooms of the Sievershausen Lutheran Church community almost 50 years ago. Those were the times when the Vietnam War escalated. Constant expansions followed, now there are several buildings, surrounded by a nice park, including a guest house and a museum with an assembly hall. The peace center shows within its diverse programme, that peace work has political, historical, pedagogical and cultural aspects. Through the year one can visit exhibitions, literary readings, lectures and many cultural events. In the seminar house students get trainings in nonviolent conflict resolution and every year an international workcamp is offered. For further information please visit http://antikriegshaus.de/.Region: The Peace Center is at the verge of a village with about 2500 inhabitants. The Peace Center is near the historical location where in 1553 a battle took place. Sievershausen lies 30 kilometers east of the Lower Saxony provincial capital Hanover on the freeway to Berlin.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers are invited to redesign and repair a big mural in the village. It was first created by international volunteers as a triptych in the years 1983 i 84. Aim of the mural is to promote peace and to show different aspects of peace work. First version referred to the impact of cold war , later in the year 2000 there was added the importance of justice as basic principle for a peaceful society. This year we will add some more aspects and topics and it is also necessary to renovate some parts of the mural. Doing this requires some talent for designing and painting.Participants who prefer to do manual labour, are invited to do some garden work or help with renovating another room in the center. Study: We will learn some essentials of peace work and get basic non-violent conflict management training. In the second week we will visit the former concentration camp of Bergen Belsen, and have some lessons on European history in the first part of the 20th century. 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) in the rooms of the Peace Center.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The accommodation of the participants is carried out in rooms with 4 beds each. There are bed sheets available. Food is prepared together in the kitchen of the seminar house.
📍 About the location
In the leisure time, the group can use facilities of the seminar house and make an excursion to Hannover or Braunschweig.
⚠️ Requirements
Interest in the topic of the Peace Center