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Grains of Peace - Welcome!
Welcome to our website!
Discover our positive approach to overcoming violence and inspiring peaceful relationships. Our English edition is regularly updated with tools and news on peace and non-violence, as well as our own activities.
Grains of Peace is a peace education organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland, and is progressively active in several other countries. It is apolitical, non-confessional and independent of outside organisations or persons, whilst being actively open to dialogue and exchange. It is officially recognised as a public service organisation and is tax exempt.
This website is viewed from 180 countries and receives more than 20'000 visits a month. Over 500,000 visits have been received since its opening in April 2006.
Download our 2011 membership form for your donations, memberships and renewals.
Our peace tools
Our peace tools are designed for children, youth and adults around three key concepts:
Human values, as forceful means to inspire peace
"Peace reflexes", a wide range of effective responses to calm tension or violence
The unacceptability of violence, the necessary norm and prerequisite to contribute to peace.
We invite you to start by reading the sections in Our Ideas (above, 2nd button), and then to continue on with our many Peace tools on the left.
If you're a teacher, please visit Our programmes section.
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Latest news!
You can now find all our "Latest News" by clicking on News and Newsletters (top right of the page).
Events
Our September and Autumn events will be posted shortly.
See the winners of our Raffle by NAME and by VALUE which took place at our Festive evening on 26th of February in Verbier, an evening which included the Trio Nota Bene, Christian Campiche and entertainment. Programme of the evening.
Workshops
Grains of Peace is pleased to invite you to a series of workshops offering theoretical and practical tools that allow everyone to develop the skills for establishing peaceful relationships. This series aims to give the participants the basics so that they can become proactive in the development of harmonious, peaceful and sustainable relationships.
Next workshops:
Tuesday 5 April 6-9 PM
"Peace reflexes in practice"The reflex of peace is an attitude, a mindset and a set of diverse techniques that often call upon our creativity and capacities to bond, especially in situations of conflict.
Members : free Non-members : 45 CHFFind more information here, as well as register via Doodle.
RSVP and invite your friends on our Facebook page!
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Act for peace education
Have a look at our offers for volunteer work and traineeships:
You can choose to be a trained facilitator for our education workshops in schools, local community centres and public events, become a volunteer for our other activities, or better still, become a member. However you would like to be involved, contact us at +41 22 700 9414.
Are you in teaching? Participate in the development of our peace education teaching kit: To become involved, join our workgroups or our Pilot Committee. For more information, please contact Brigitte at the same number.
Are you interested in promoting human values, intercultural relations, or in sport? Contact Marie Anne at the same number.
Would you like to help us translate some of our web pages? We are currently looking for volunteer translators able to translate online into English, Arabic, Spanish and Serbian.
Contact us for more information.
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New items on our site!
A summary of the Declaration of Madrid on peace and violence in human nature is now online in the “Reference documents “.
The beautiful fable “the oak transformed by the fir tree” is now online.
The Volunteer opportunities and Internship opportunities sections are regularly updated.
Translations: A good part of the new pages have been translated into English and this work is ongoing. Many pages have also been translated into Russian. We would be very happy for you to translate some pages into your own language – please contact us.
Read the detailed definition of a peace reflex in the Dictionary and our latest examples.
In the Quotes section: There are now more than 280 quotes, which can be sorted by theme and author, relating to peace, non-violence, responsibility, and to the universal values that contribute to it. Discover how people as different as Einstein, Mother Teresa, Barack Obama, Jimi Hendrix and Ibn Rumi view peace.
Discover our recent sections: Peace slogans and mottos! Peace aphorisms and proverbs, grouped by theme. Here you will find proverbs from different religions and cultures that also express the Golden Rule of reciprocity …
Learn the difference between proverbs, aphorisms, maxims, dictums, sayings, mottos and slogans through examples of peace.
Enjoy our sketches and relax with the Humour section. This section now regroups the Funny thoughts and Funny slogans .
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Join our English-language Grains of Peace Group on Facebook to join our discussions, keep up to date with our news and show your support. Or if you understand some French, join our main Facebook page, which has over 1200 friends.
In addition, you can join our Group for Peace Education in Africa (French) as well as the Group of Grains of Peace and Nemashim (English).
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Please enjoy your visit to our site, don't hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or comments. We look forward to hearing from you!
We are located in Geneva, just next to the Cornavin train station, at 11 rue Cornavin, 1201 Genève, 2nd Floor. Entry via 22 rue des terreaux du Temple is also possible.
MAP of our location.
Meanwhile, download our latest documents here.
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