Study part in workcamps methods to learn about SCI and peace Impressum Impressum Publisher: One World Association – SCI Poland XO.UDVLĔVNLHJR$ 60-3R]QDĔ32/$1' [email protected] Author: Christa Knobloch Co-authors: (OĪELHWDĩyUDZVND Iza Czerniejewska Drawings: Mauro Carta ']LĊNXMHP\EDUG]R thank you very much to all people supporting us with their feedback, correction and computer knowledge! 2 One World Association – SCI Poland index Index Introduction What is ‘study part’? .....................................................................................p. 4 SCI Info: history of SCI ....................................................................................... p. 8 Info: Vision of SCI ........................................................................................p. 14 Info: ‘Amitié’ ................................................................................................. p. 15 Three slogans ..............................................................................................p. 16 SCI timeline ................................................................................................. p. 18 SCI-quiz ...................................................................................................... p. 20 SCI-theater .................................................................................................. p. 26 TV-show ...................................................................................................... p. 27 SCI-museum ............................................................................................... p. 28 Brain teaser ................................................................................................. p. 30 Discussion - first workcamp ........................................................................ p. 36 Diamond ranking ‘SCI does workcamps ...’ ................................................ p. 40 Peace Info: What is peace? ....................................................................................p. 44 Info: Is every workcamp a peace project?.................................................... p. 45 Postcard association ................................................................................... p. 48 Confrontation game ..................................................................................... p. 49 Silent discussion ......................................................................................... p. 50 Peace quotes .............................................................................................. p. 51 Peace-art ..................................................................................................... p. 54 Peace-island ............................................................................................... p. 56 Street-interviews ......................................................................................... p. 57 What does ‘peace’ mean? ...........................................................................p. 59 And more Our rules (contract) ......................................................................................p. 62 Postcard to myself (Evaluation) ...................................................................p. 64 Three things-Evaluation ...............................................................................p. 65 Literature and links .......................................................................................p. 67 Study part in workcamps 3 Introduction What is ‘study part’? introduction Dear campleaders, you hold in your hands a manual for guiding the study part in your workcamp. Before you start reading the methods and choosing one (or more ☺) fitting to your workcamp I want to give you some more background information about study part. It may help you to understand why the study part is an important part of an SCI workcamp. Why study part? When the idea to do a workcamp appeared the first volunteers laid their emphasis on practical work. In contrary to other people discussing about peace they wanted to help concretely and to put peace into PRACTICE. The next generation in SCI, affected by the students movement in ‘68, had a different view on this topic. They focused more on the fact that violence is often structural violence caused by society. Discussing, learning and understanding for them was the base of peace-work. Out of these two roots developed the workcamps we have today. Through the workcamps SCI wants to support charitable projects with practical work. SCI also wants the camps to ‘a learning experience for the people involved’. Besides others, this is supported through the study part. What exactly is ‘study part’? The term “study part” within SCI is used in different meanings. Some are using it only for special study sessions in the camp, others mean all different ways of learning in a workcamp. The words don’t matter. The important questions are: How can participants learn about peace in the workcamp? And how can you as campleaders support this learning process? Different ways of learning in a workcamp: This small book focuses on the two most important fields of peace-education in workcamps, which appear in every SCI-workcamp. 1. learning about the history and the aim of SCI – learning about peace 2. learning through living together as a temporary international community – putting peace into practice 4 One World Association – SCI Poland introduction The methods provided in chapter one (“SCI”) and two (“peace”) give you examples how to tell your volunteers about the history of SCI and how to give an impulse to discuss about peace. Each chapter provides background information on the topic and methods how to transfer this knowledge to the volunteers in your workcamp. Questions like “Do we live this peace in our workcamp?” build a bridge between the abstract idea of peace and the intercultural situation the volunteers actually are living in. That way the link between information and discussion (learning about peace) and the actual workcamp (putting peace into practice) gets more visible. In the third chapter (‘and more...’) we collected methods that besides official workshops, ‘by the way’ support peace-education in the workcamp. Here you can find a guideline how to develop common rules for your camp and how to use evaluation to make the participants aware of the things they experienced and learned during the time in the camp. Some methods provided in the publication, we already knew, others we especially developed and tried out before publishing. But every leader and every groups has different needs. If you miss something in this book, or find out great variations how to talk about peace and SCI in your camp write to us! We and the next generation of campleaders will be very grateful! We wish you fun in with our methods and a lot of fruitful discussions in you camp. Amitiés* &KULVWD.QREORFK(OĪELHWDĩyUDZVNDIza Czerniejewska * You wonder what this greeting means? Very good! This is your first step into the myths of SCI history. Just check page 31. Study part in workcamps 5 SCI 6 One World Association – SCI Poland SCI SCI information and methods Study part in workcamps 7 SCI - information Info: History of SCI SCI The birth of the workcamp-idea enough. We must do something now, Around the turn of the century Europe we must start, my brother was a was dominated by nationalism and soldier in the German Army, he was militarism. National politics were at war in France, he participated in governed by patriotism and readiness bombing that country. I come here to for battle. Also the ideology of the do my part in order to build, to majority was strongly influenced by reconstruct.” military values such as discipline and selflessness. The first Workcamp This alarmed certain people. That Several concrete proposals came out many people believed in this ‘false of this second Bilthoven conference. religion’ and thus became each The Swiss Pierre Ceresole, who had others enemies. How was this been one of the organisers of the possible? To some people it was conference, had the idea of an quite clear that international international team of volunteers that friendships were needed. was to help to repair war damage. By working together in a spirit of In 1920 the ”Fellowship of friendship, this team would also be a Reconciliation” invited like-minded sign of international solidarity. It people to their second conference. In would show that people of different Bilthoven, Netherlands sixty people nationalities could refuse to be each from Great Britain, Germany, the other’s enemies. The idea of the Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway, “workcamp” was born. Sweden and the United States met. The theme of the meeting was “How Pierre Ceresole found a suitable site to build peace?”. Although they all for what was to be the first SCI- shared a passion for the idea of an project: the heavily damaged village international movement of the of Esnes, near Verdun. Esnes had Christian pacifists there were also been destroyed during the war by the differences of opinion. Different ideas German soldiers. Now Germans (two about priorities and ways of working of them former soldiers), Swiss, were debated. On the second day a Dutch, English, Hungarian and German participant, Walter Koch French men worked together. Also raised a question: ”Can we do two women (a Dutch and an Austrian nothing but talk? Is it not time for woman) took part in the camp. One of concrete action? We have been the three German Volunteers wrote in discussing