Call for Applications: Women Peacemakers Program: Nonviolence Education and Training NVET
Call for Applications: Women Peacemakers Program: Nonviolence Education and Training (NVET) Nonviolence training provides Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) with essential peacebuilding skills and concepts. These skills and concepts focus on ways to increase social mobilization and countervailing power. Nonviolence training aims to empower marginalized groups so that they can assert their rights, create their own opportunities, and access resources. WPP will support a minimum of 10 nonviolence trainings during 2005 - 2008, by providing financial support, links to trainers and resource people, and/or training materials. WPP uses the following criteria in selecting which training to support: - The purpose of IFOR WPP trainings is the nonviolent empowerment of women and the building of sustainable women's groups. The gender aspect has to be an explicit part of the training. - Priority will be given to proposals coming from women's groups with a stated interest or aim in active non...