Peace Building with Young Children

International Working Group on Peace Building with Young Children

Mission
The International Working Group on Peace Building with Young Children is a global initiative of early childhood practitioners, researchers, and civil society organizations. The mission of the project is to be a meeting place for early childhood activists with an interest in building networks of knowledge, support, and advocacy for early childhood practice and policies in regions experiencing or emerging from armed conflict. info@worldforumfoundation.org.

History
This project was launched in November of 2004 when the World Forum Foundation and NIPPA - The Early Years Organisation organized the conference, "Working Forum Belfast - Building Bridges: Healing Communities through Early Childhood Education." In the first part of this event, early childhood leaders from Albania, Chad, Columbia, Croatia, Israel/Palestine, Mali, Nepal, Northern Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, South Africa, and the United States shared ideas on how their early childhood programs were bringing communities together after periods of armed conflict. At the end of the week this group presented their stories and strategies with early childhood leaders from throughout the region.

The members of this Working Group convened again at World Forum 2005 in Montreal and again in Colombia in 2006. One product of these meetings has been the presentation of their stories and strategies in their book, From Conflict to Peace Building: The Power of Early Childhood Education Initiatives - Lessons from around the World.

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