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Overview

The Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation celebrates Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu's legacy of love and unity.

We strive to promote peacemaking activities, reconciliation, conflict resolution, and ethical leadership.

Mission

The mission of the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation, in collaboration with the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre and Peace Trust, is to support and promote the creation of a culture of peace throughout the world. In the spirit of our founder, Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and the South African experience, we are dedicated to advancing reconciliation, peace-building, non-violence, conflict resolution and ethical leadership so that all may live in a more peaceable and sustainable world.

Programs

YPeace: We at the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation recognize that children and youth are the future leaders and peacemakers of the world. They have the capacity to change and improve the world for subsequent generations. In order to be able to bring about positive change and to effectively engender peace, they need to be well-informed and well-equipped to deal with problems that they face on a personal level, as well as more complex global problems. The Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation therefore hopes to realize its mission of promoting peace through youth by providing them with resources with which to best become tomorrow’s ethical leaders and peacemakers.

In order to do this we are building YPeace.org (YPeace), an interactive multi-media website. YPeace will be a virtual peace center: multimedia web-based environment and online curriculum aimed initially at a global audience of young people aged 13 through 15, as well as their parents, teachers and community leaders. Learning tools will include games and other interactive tools such as quizzes, polls, and a media gallery where users can upload their own art work, photographs, stories and poems which relate to peace. YPeace will also include traditionally formatted information and resources which will be available for download.

Schools for Peace: This program of the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre in Cape Town, South Africa, will be a peace education intervention to deal with violence and bullying in South Africa’s schools, which are often caused persistent racism, sexism and xenophobia. We will train teachers in facilitation and mediation and they will become Ambassadors for Peace within their schools. There will also be a Schools for Peace Curriculum for school children of all ages, which will teach about peaceful ways to resolve conflict and engage students in respectful debate and creative expression.
Each school that is part of Schools for Peace will host a ‘Schools for Peace’ Festival to coincide with the commemoration of Human Rights Day on March 21. To celebrate, students will produce a number of Festival showpieces that are peace-related and that tie into the existing curriculum for History, the Arts, Languages and Life Orientation. The use of multi-media is encouraged.