The project had two main objectives: (1) Increasing the capacity of the participating organisations, and their staff, to support conflict-affected people’s efforts to build peace. We wanted to increase these target groups' knowledge of the needs for peace education and peace education practices. (2) Identifying potential partners and stakeholders, and collecting best practices related to peacebuilding. We wanted to create the basis for a long-term peace education project, where we would design a European-wide peace training programme.
We applied for this project to address the growing need in Europe for tools for training people in practices of building peace and preventing violent conflicts. We wanted to contribute to this by developing adult educators’ competences to train their learners in maintaining peace and finding peaceful solutions to conflicts. In the small-scale project, we wanted to strengthen our organizations' ability to respond to this issue by developing our own capacities. We also wanted to create a basis and to find potential partners for a long-term project, where we would develop a new peace training programme on a European level.