| Training of Trainers - the Continuation...Since 2002 until this year, WPP has organized an international nonviolence Training of Trainers (ToT) for women. The goals are to deepen women’s understanding of active nonviolence, and to equip them with skills to conduct nonviolence trainings. Another goal is to develop gender-sensitive nonviolence training. The women have a two-week training of trainers, then return home, where they must conduct one gender-sensitive nonviolence training. They are connected to a mentor, and the WPP helps provide seed money for these nonviolence trainings. The next year the same women come together for a two week-long follow-up training, to discuss the challenges and obstacles they face as nonviolence trainers.2007 was the last year that international ToTs took place in the Netherlands. From next year regional ToTs will be conducted through the new WPP regional desks in Africa (Ghana) and Asia (India). From June 18 till June 29 2007, the second part of a ToT took place in the Netherlands.
Women trainers/activists from Burundi, Israel, Mozambique, Pakistan, Palestine, Romania, Sweden and Thailand re-united to discuss successes, challenges and lessons learnt from the previous ToT in 2006, their follow-up training at home and other training- and activism-related topics. The 2007 ToT program consisted of sharing further training techniques; improving facilitation skills by actual facilitation of sessions by the participants; deeper understanding of concepts and practices of nonviolence; developing self-awareness and analyzing various aspects of our own identities; discussing the role of religion in gender structures; intersectionalism: gender, race, culture, class, religion, sexuality; and further discussing the construction of masculinity and its connection to gender, peace and conflicts.
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A report from the 2006 and the 2007 Training of Trainers will be published soonest and disseminated amongst ToT participants, IFOR branches,
groups and affiliates (BGAs), and upon request. You will also be able to download it from this section of the website. |
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Skills Development - Training of Trainers
For more information on the regionalization of the Training of Trainers, 