via G. Bandi, 3
Pisa
Italy
- Youth and education
Assopace-Pisa promotes projects and initiatives with the aim of overcoming every kind of exclusion and discrimination based on reasons of race, sex, political opinions, religious creed or affiliation to a certain ethnic, social or cultural group. Particularly the association is committed to contrast every form of racism favouring the building of a society based on the acceptance of differences and on the enhancement of diversities.
Assopace-Pisa is engaged in the democratization and the reform of international institutions, in the politics of international cooperation for development, for a social and jointly responsible economy in the aim of justice. For the realization of the appointed purposes, Assopace-Pisa proposes some objectives:
- to express positions at the right moment and to undertake initiatives among people regarding all the reported problems over mentioned;
- to connect and collaborate with other structures operating on similar themes at a national and international level;
- to consider as main point the promotion and realization of projects for the construction and diffusion of the culture of peace and active citizenship and to have the function of stimulating all the educational and formative agencies and every other subject interested in the education for peace;
- to promote refresher courses for teachers at any level on the themes of nonviolence, education for peace, intercultural and human rights;
- to develop activity of research and documentation;
- to take care of the internal information to its own members and external towards the whole population by means of a constant publishing activity;
- to give free services of public utility on the sectors the association deals with.
- 2009-2010: Peace education project "Educating to conflict for educating to peace: the Israeli-Palestinian case" and "Educating to conflict for educating to peace: through the Other's eyes": these projects were aimed at enhancing a deepen analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict among secondary schools students through the use of different formative methodologies such as role-plays, participative meth., Oppressed Theatre exercises, brainstorming. With the projects we have realized several laboratories for students and round-tables with students and teachers to discuss the educational methodologies used in the schools for studying historical conflicts and to create new formative courses on the analysis of the conflicts, inspired to nonviolence concepts.
- 2009-2010: Formative courses for primary school teachers of Pontedera, Pisa, in the project "All human rights for all" of the Tavola della Pace di Pontedera. The courses have deepened the ideas of conflict and of its nonviolent resolution.
- 2010: Project "Viviamoci Sant'Ermete!", aimed at promoting the active citizenship and the participation of the residents of a popular neighbourhood of Pisa, for the improvement of their living conditions, through the use of different participative methods.