Skills Development - Training of Trainers
Regional Skills Development
Nonviolence Education and Training
International Orientation
Women Peacemakers & Media

The International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) has a long history of organizing and developing nonviolence training.
This history reflects IFOR members’ commitment to active nonviolence, both as a method of struggle for social change and as a personal life style.

The values inherent in the theory and practice of active nonviolence are the same values necessary for building a culture of peace. Nonviolence training is a way of promoting these values, providing opportunities to pass on and improve the concrete skills that make for peace.

One key area in building a culture of peace (as identified in the United Nations Declaration and Program of Action on a Culture of Peace, 1999, Resolution A/53/243) is ensuring equality between women and men.

Such equality demands a gender-sensitive approach-an approach that is often lacking in nonviolence training.

Training methodologies and materials are often assumed to be gender neutral. However, on a practical level, they may actually promote attitudes that discourage access to training for women and girls, or ignore or silence the concerns of women and girls. On a conceptual level, a gender-neutral approach overlooks the fact that gender is a vital element in both the making of war and the making of peace.

WPP offers international and regional nonviolence and leadership trainings with a clear gender perspective for both female and male activists from various social change movements.

To learn more about WPP's work, view this video