Each of us have a role to play to save our planet and

help each other to relate with each other with peace

and compassion.

aya Center for Peace is an important initiative that works in collaboration with various local partners in India and South Asia to strengthen and help communities for peaceful and compassionate coexistence.

Peace Dialogue & Journey

Leadership Training

Culture of Peace

Education

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Daya Center for Peace Logo takes its root from this beautiful story:

"In the Andean, there was a fire and all the animals ran out of the beautiful home. The animals thought that if they cross the Amazon River and reach

the other side they should be safe. All the animals reached the other side and they were watching their home... getting burned by this big fire. And they were seeing who was missing. They wanted to see if they had all made it.

And they saw that the hummingbird was missing. And they were like oh no maybe the hummingbird fell asleep and was burned in the fire. And just as

they were saying that they saw the hummingbird from across the river shoot out of the fire and into the water. And then they saw her shoot out of the

water and back into the fire. And they were like “what is she doing? Crazy hummingbird.” And they saw her shoot in and out of the water and fire sev-

eral times. Out of the water into the fire, out of the fire into the water. And eventually they realized that in her beak she was taking a tiny drop of water

each time to the fire.

Finally after doing this many times and she’s all tired she crosses the river all the way to the other side to where the other animals are and she col-

lapses on the ground and she’s hardly breathing. And they all say, “Hum-mingbird, you must be crazy! Why did you think you were going to be able to put that fire out? Impossible.” And the hummingbird said, I was doing what

I can and I played my role to save my home.” They all said, “There is so much we can do to save our home. Let’s all go back and let’s get water and

try to put that fire out.” Just as they were crossing and they were half way across the river, a big stormy rain came and put the fire out. Mother Earth

gave them a message that they have a role, that each one has a role."

"Each of us have a role to play to save our planet and help each other to relate with each other with peace and compassion"

Logo Designed by Dr. Dagmar Kusa

Objectives

1. To strengthen Urban and Rural Schools in understanding peace education and to effectively introduce into their regular educational process.

2. To bring together youth from different parts of India and other countries to discuss various peace building strategies and learn from each other.

3. To promote peace, justice, leadership and diversity through literature, comics, sports, and theatre.

4. To strengthen vertical and horizontal capacities through networking and collaboration with other actors, groups, organizations and institutions working for peace, justice and reconciliation at local, national and international level.

What We do?

Activities

• Undertakinginitiativesforthepromotionofpeacefulcoexistencein institutions and within and between communities.

• Facilitationandconsultationthathelprural/urbaninstitutions.and other stake holders to work on just peace processes that assist people engaged in conflict to work on ways that move things in a positive direction.

• Buildingandnurturingthecapacityandskillsofyouththroughparticipatory peace based workshops, internships, mentoring and support.

• Integratinggenderperspectivesonpeaceandconflict.

• PromotingbetterunderstandingofconflictsinSouthAsiaandstrengthening Global South collaboration and partnership for peace and justice.

• Supportingcommunities,organizationsandindividualsindeveloping strategies and mechanisms that help build leadership, promote teamwork and cultivate peace.

Programmes

Culture of Peace Programme (COP)

Leadership Training Programmes (LTP)

Peace Films and Documentaries (PFD)

Peace Dialogue and Journey (PDJ)

Daya for Education (DE)

Publications

About Us

Daya Center for Peace isa non-profit organization founded in the year 2011 in Hyderabad, India. Daya Center for Peace aspiresfor a world that is just, compassionate and nurtures peaceful coexistence. TheMission of Daya Center for Peaceis topromotecultureof peace in schools and set the schools to impart transformative education. Through our leadershiptraining and other programmes Daya Center aims to help the children, youth, teachers and civil society organizations to become agents of non-violence and social change.

Culture of Peace Programme (COP)

Leadership Training Programmes (LTP)

Peace Films and Documentaries (PFD)

Peace Dialogue and Journey (PDJ)

Daya for Education (DE)

Publications

Daya Center for Peace

To be compassionate with oneself and with the other is important for peace to prevail and sustain. Theword Daya means Compassion in Sanskrit and in few other languages. Communities across the country are facing with various intractable conflicts since several decades.Manypeopleexperiencingsuch conflicts for a long time have lost hope and faith in peace and justice.There are very few peopleand organizations committed to the process of non-violence in transforming communities. Daya Center for Peace is an importantinitiative that works in collaboration with various local partners in India and SouthAsia to strengthen andhelp communities for peaceful and compassionate coexistence. DayaCenter forPeacewelcomesyou tojourney with us in our initiatives to bring transformative change in children, teachers, youth, women, religious leaders and civil society organizations.

Culture of Peace Programme (COP) Daya Center is committed to working with educational institutions in transforming and helping teachers and students to become role models for the society. Schools are a microcosm of the larger society and are influenced by social systems, cultural values, religious beliefs, economic policies and political thought. Recognizing this, schools are increasingly moving towards a holistic approach to education, rather than confining it to a subject centered and academic oriented learning.

Conflict and violence is emerging in an unprecedented manner in society, and unfortunately disharmony finds its way into schools. Therefore, the need to nurture the value of peaceful co-existence inchildren is essential.

Daya Center for Peace feels that educational institutions play a crucial role in shaping future generations. Through the COP program weempower teachers and students to be sensitive, to relate and to thrive in a heterogeneousenvironment.COPaimsatdevelopinglifeskillstoenableparticipants to be team players, hone leadership qualities, inculcate higher socialandhumanvaluesandexpandingbehaviouralskills.

Daya Center for Peace will work with teachers, parents and students. Very often school children do encounter conflicts in their classrooms, homes, community, and face various pressures that are often left not addressedthusleavingthechildreninstressandfrustration.Therefore,Daya Center feels the need of working with teachers and students in strengtheningpeacefulcoexistenceintheschoolsandindevelopinglifeskills.

Daya Center for Peace is proposing to run series of activities under cultureofpeaceprogrammeinAndhraPradesh,Gujarat,Assam,Manipur,Nagaland, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Daya Center will simultaneously be building a support network of schools that will work together to strengthen the programme.

The objectives of the project are:

• Totrainschoolteachersand students in culture of peace that would help in strengthening relationships, effective classroom management and in developing life skills.

• Totrainteachersontrainingof trainers for planning, facilitating, documenting and evaluating culture of peace workshops.

• Toencourageandsupportaselected number of teachers for culture of peace initiatives in their own respective states.

• Toorganizepeaceeventsinschools for students that will help in creating awareness on peace building through the use of visual, language and performing arts.

• Todocument,produceand disseminate culture of peace resources that will help teachers, students and others in broadening their perspectives and in creating a greater awareness on peace building.

How Can You Help?

• Interntoworkatoneofour project school or at theDayaCenterofficefora minimum of 2 months.

• Sendusresourcematerialson Culture of Peace

• Donateonaonetimebasis for implementing peace education departments in Schools or commit to continued support of funding this initiative for the future

• Networkwithsimilarorganizations and promote our work.

• Keepusinyourthoughtsand prayers.

Leadership Training Programmes (LTP) The Leadership Training Programme is aimed at helping teenagers and young people to develop life skills and to become visionary leaders for the community. Daya Center encourages the participants to be proactive and take greater responsibility in peace initiatives. This programmewill strengthen the participants’ knowledge, skills and attitude through holistic training approach.

Over the course of this training programme, the participants will learn about effective public speaking, non-violent communication, decision-making, leadership skills, team building skills, critical analysis, dialogue, andnegotiationandmediationskills.Theparticipantswillemergetohavea greater understanding of conflicts around them and will have in-depth knowledge on peace building strategies.

• Gaininsightintobehaviors,attitudes and patterns that can escalate or de-escalate conflicts.

• Becomemoreeffectivein handling challenging situations, including intense emotions and occasions when disagreement reaches an impasse.

• Learnskillsandapproaches,which assist in building confidence and trust when working with individuals, groups and communities in conflict.

• Deepenawarenessofcontext,culture, identity and diversity while dealing conflicts and building peace.

• Becomeacquaintedwithavailable resources and existingnetworksforpeacebuilding practitioners.

• Gaininsightsaboutdialogueand reconciliation process.

How Can You Help?

• Donateonaonetimebasis or commit to continued support of funding this initiative for the future

• Networkwithsimilarorganizations and promote our work.

• Keepusinyourthoughtsand prayers.

The objectives of this programme is to:

Peace Films and Documentaries (PFD) Daya Center will produce innovative peace resources, which will includepeacedocumentariesandshortfilms.Peacedocumentarieswillbe a reflection of the work of the organization itself and the urgent need emerging from the community.

How Can You Help?

• InterntoworkatwiththeFilmandDocumentaryteam in producing peace documentaries for a minimum of two months.

• Sendusresourcematerials(DVD, CD, Books) on variouspeacefilmsanddocumentaries.

• Donatefilmequipments(camera, video camera, microphone, video editing software,etc.)forthefilmdepartment.

• Donateonaonetimebasisorcommittocontinuedsupport of funding this initiative for the future

• Networkwithsimilarorganizationsandpromoteour work.

• Keepusinyourthoughtsandprayers.

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Peace Dialogue– and Journey (PDJ)

How Can You Help?

• Joinusinthepeacedialogue and journey.

• Donateonaonetimebasis for peace dialogue and journey or commit to continued support of funding this initiative for the future

• Networkwithsimilarorganizations and promote our work.

• Keepusinyourthoughtsand prayers.

The Peace Dialogue and Journey is aimed to bring together people from diverse backgrounds to spend time knowing and understanding each other through several dialogue initiatives. ThePeace Dialogue will also havea component of journeying together and this journey will help the participants immerse themselves into the local culture allowing them to come closer to understanding the other’s social, ethnic,andreligiousexperience.

The participants will share and discuss different views on various issues and work together to overcome stereotypes and strengthen bridges of hope and harmony between each other. Thisjourneywillberecordedandwill be used as a learning tool for dialogue initiatives. A PeaceDialogue video documentary that narrates and shows the journey experience,thelearning’sacquiredas individuals and as a group, the stereotypes challenged, and the bridges built. A scholarly articlereflecting on the journey will also emerge this initiative.

Daya for Education (DE) Around 119 million children in India are in forced labor and they work formorethan8-12hrsadaytoearnamaximumofRs.45($1)aday.Indiahasthehighestchildlaborrateintheworld.Asinmanypartsoftheworld, in India, most of the schools do not provide funds for children to study and this causes enormous amount of pressure for low income and below poverty line families to even think about sending their children to schools.

Daya for Education is an initiative to help children to get quality education and therebyhelp familieswho arenot able to afford and/orfacing severe financial difficulty in sending their children to school.

Daya Center will identify 10 children each year and fund their education and provide them with school kits, which include pencils, notebooks andotheritems.Attheendofeachyear,thesupervisorsfromDayawillmonitortheprogressofthechild/studentandconsiderfortherenewaloffunding.

Daya will commit only to fund the student’s education until the student hasreachedthe10thstandard/grade.Duringthecourseoftheyearthestudents will also be given opportunities to attend life skills workshops andotherextracurricularactivitiesaimedtotrainthestudent’sabilitytoemerge as transformative leaders in the community.

How Can You Help?

• Interntoworkatonthisprojectfora minimum of 2 months.

• Fundoneormorechild’seducation(per child $ 500 for one year).

• Donateonaonetimebasisorcommit to continued support of funding this initiative for the future

• Networkwithsimilarorganizationsand promote our work.

• Keepusinyourthoughtsanprayers.

Publications

Production of innovative peace resources, through participatory processes which will include short animated films, soundtracks, music albums, comic strips, poetry, art, stories, peace quotes, articles, documentaries, calendars and peace merchandise.

How Can You Help?

• Interntoworkat on this project for a minimum of 2 months.

• Sendusyour articles or writings on Culture of Peace, Leadership,Non-Violence,SocialAction,etc for publication under Daya Center for Peace.

• Donateonaonetimebasisorcommitto continued support of funding this initiative for the future

• Networkwithsimilarorganizationsandpromote our work.

• Keepusinyourthoughtsandprayers.

VolunteerIt is possible to volunteer with Daya for periods of one month to one year. For more information, please write to us (see email on opposite page).

InternshipsWe have positions for interns inthefieldofpeacebuilding.For more information, please write to us (see email on opposite page).

Donate1. Make an individual commitment to give on a continuing basis

The commitment amount should be a minimum of $50, due to transaction costs.

2. A one time donation

One time donations are welcomed, and if you want to donate money to a specific activity of the Daya Center, please write to us to designate where you would like the funds to go (see email address below).

3.Fundonechild’seducation

Onechild’seducationcostaminimumof$500peryear.Youcangivethismoney in fullpaymentor inat least two installments.PleasewritetotheDirectorofDayaforEducation(emailaddressbelow).

4. Gifts

5. Host Fundraising events

6. Donate items that can be auctioned at fundraising events

We would love for people to donate supplies, however due to shipping costs we only ask that you only donate supplies if

you will be able to have them sent to us in Hyderabad.

We would like to thank you again for your continued support and if you have any other ideas for how

you would like to help, please let us know. We are always open to suggestions. Write to us at:

dcp@dayacenterforpeace.org

Contact Us

Address: DayaCenterforPeace6-3-3, Sri Sai Residency, FlatNumber303,Shivarampally, Rajendra Nagar Mandal, Hyderabad,A.P-500052,India

Telephone: +919490709608

Email: varghese.chakk@dayacenterforpeace.orgordcp@ dayacenterforpeace.org Website:www.dayacenterforpeace.org