Generations For Peace Inc

Dedicated to sustainable conflict transformation at the grassroots, Generations For Peace empowers volunteer leaders of youth to promote active tolerance and responsible citizenship in communities experiencing different forms of conflict and violence. We are a volunteer movement, empowering, mentoring and supporting volunteers to be change-makers to create a better future in their own communities.

Generations For Peace has created a unique curriculum designed to empower our volunteers with practical knowledge and skills to apply peacebuilding theory to situations of destructive conflict in their communities. It equips them to organize activities for children, work with youth and adults, train other volunteers and gather support by building and strengthening community networks and partnerships.

Our mentoring model provides support to our volunteers in every step of their engagement with GFP, and helps build their confidence when engaged in the challenging contexts of their home communities.

Our cascading model increases reach and reinforces the sustainability of our volunteers’ own peacebuilding efforts, whilst responding to local needs and building on local assets, knowledge, and strengths. It also ensures that the number of volunteers implementing GFP programs continues to grow exponentially, bringing the hope of lasting peace to more generations in communities around the world.

VOLUNTEER SELECTION
Volunteer youth leaders from around the world go through a rigorous process to be selected as Delegates to attend a GFP camp or a GFP local training.
To become a GFP Delegate, volunteers are expected to meet strict selection criteria, including leadership potential and determination to lead change to achieve lasting impact; conflict sensitivity and commitment to GFP values; a strong network and community-oriented experience; and the capacity to attract support, to train, motivate and mentor others, to implement high-quality activities, and to learn and adapt.

TRAININGS: PASSING ON OUR VALUES, KNOWLEDGE, AND SKILLS TO DELEGATES
Our trainings provide Delegates with knowledge in peacebuilding and conflict transformation, equipping them with the skills needed to carry out GFP programs in their own communities.

CURRICULUM
Our world-class curriculum provides volunteers with practical knowledge and skills to apply peacebuilding theory to situations of destructive conflict in their communities. The curriculum also includes working with children, youth and adults, training other volunteers, and gathering support by building and strengthening community networks and partnerships. The curriculum includes:

• Theory of peacebuilding and conflict transformation
• Core and advanced-level conflict analysis
• Skills and techniques for facilitating learning by different age groups
• Behavioral change, and the use of sport, art, advocacy, dialogue and empowerment activities for change in communities
• Program design, monitoring and evaluation of impact and sustainability

The curriculum is developed and updated regularly in response to feedback from our volunteers and the latest research and innovation from our GFP Institute. It is available in several languages and continues to be translated into others so volunteers can deliver training in their native tongue.

Generations For Peace is a global movement of trained volunteers in 52 countries and territories, supported by a dedicated Headquarters staff and by the Generations For Peace Institute. Partnerships are critical for our reach and sustainability, and we have proven are capacity to establish and nurture effective partnerships at all levels. Our Partners include governmental donors, non-governmental donors, Olympic Movement partners, United Nations agencies, leading commercial partners, and local community-based organizations and NGOs. Our unique Curriculum has evolved over time based on our program experience and research, and the evolving needs of our volunteers as their programs mature and grow. Uniquely, Generations For Peace has developed a peacebuilding toolkit that contains five Peacebuilding Tools: Sport, Art, Advocacy, Dialogue and Empowerment: We use sport as an entry point to engage with youth, and our carefully-facilitated sport-based games provide a vehicle for integrated education and behavior change. Our strong connections with the Olympic Movement, notably the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Jordan Olympic Committee (JOC) and Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), give us access to excellent networks and partners. In addition to our sport-based approaches, we have also developed art, advocacy, dialogue, and empowerment activities to support conflict transformation with children, youth, and adults in different contexts. This mix of approaches provides flexibility, allowing us to engage with different target groups in different contexts to support transformation of conflict and reduction of violence at the grassroots in communities.

Since 2007, we have trained and mentored nearly 20,000 volunteer leaders of youth in 52 countries in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. With our support, their ongoing programs address local issues of conflict and violence, and have touched the lives of more than 1,417,308 children, youth and adults. Generations For Peace is currently ranked #26 in the "Top 500 NGOs in the World" by NGO Advisor (making us the third-highest-ranked peacebuilding NGO, and the top-ranked Jordanian NGO). Their ranking is based on an assessment of innovation, impact, and sustainability. In simple terms, over the last 13 years we have achieved rapid global growth; we have learned an enormous amount and gone through "proof of concept", developing our approach in different contexts, and demonstrating the success, impact and sustainability of our model. We are now facing growing demand for our programs around the world, and wish to secure more partnerships to build on our success and sustain our continued growth. As well as funding from the governments of the United States and the European Union, we have excellent partnerships with several UN agencies and NGOs, within the Olympic Movement, particularly the Jordan Olympic Committee, and with corporate partners.