UF Peacejam
UF Peacejam began
Fall 2006 at the University of Florida. UF student volunteers will serve as
leaders and mentors for a local group of high school students that will study
a Nobel Peace Laureate. The high school group will complete a national
service-learning project that is presented to the Laureate at the end of the
year with groups from all over the state of Florida.
10th Anniversary Peacejam Conference
 
(Photos from Peacejam Website and CBS
News)
Left: Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu lights a candle for peace at the
10th Anniversary Peacejam conference in Denver, Col. September 2006. Right:
His Holiness The Dalai Lama and Tutu encouraged youth that small actions can
make a difference.
Peacejam is an international education program that is centered around
Nobel Peace Laureates. There are programs across the United States and in
other countries that are helping local youth to study Nobel Peace Laureates
and then develop peace projects in their communities that will make a
difference. According to Peacejam, “the goal of this project is to inspire a
new generation of peacemakers who will transform their local communities,
themselves and the world.”
More details for high school participants on state conferences (from
peacejam.org):
The PeaceJam Youth Conference
The PeaceJam Youth Conference is a two-day gathering of high school youth
in one of the 19 established affiliate regions (10 within the USA and 9
located internationally). Approximately 400 people attend, representing a
broad and diverse cross-section of the communities in each region. At the
conference, participants interact with the featured Nobel Peace Prize
Laureate through question and answer sessions and presentations from the
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. Students also have a chance to present their
plans for initiating positive change in their communities directly to the
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. When the participants are not interacting with
the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate they are engaged in many different activities.
These activities include a variety of leadership workshops, meetings in small
groups with youth from different schools, team building games and more. The
youth also participate in a service project set up in the community in which
the conference is held.
Links:
National
Peacejam office
Florida
Peacejam
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