Peace Cafe
After the tremendous success Peace Café had on board Fuji
Maru during the 22nd Ship for World Youth Program, SWYGreece Alumni Association
together with the American College of Greece decided to use this non-formal
educational activity as an on going learning process for students in Greece.
Taro Yasuhi and Gulece Senel introduced the first session about the atomic bomb
and nuclear energy.
“Peace café” is a non formal educational activity aiming at developing and
enforcing the concept of peace in a personal, inter-personal and community level,
through dialogue, discussion, workshops, roleplays and the use of multimedia as
a stimulant for the activities.
In terms of methodology, the only thing needed is a space where the participants
can relax drinking a cup of coffee/tea and good will to participate in friendly
and open hearted discussion.
The theme of this “Peace Café” session was: “the atomic bomb and the use
of nuclear power”.
The session was co-ordinated by Mr Taro Yasuhi. Mr. Yasuhi comes from Nagasaki
and has a personal experience from the results of the atomic bomb. Both his
grandparents were victims of the atomic bomb while his grandfather devoted his
life in treating the atomic bomb victims, working in the Atomic Bomb Hospital of
Nagasaki. Mr. Yasuhi, (24 years old) is a peace volunteer organizing Peace Café
in order to raise awareness of young people around the world on the effects of
the use of nuclear weapons so as to avoid mistakes of the past.
Miss Gulece Senel comes from Ankara and was the facilitator of this session.
Miss Senel is an expert in conflict resolution having studied specifically about
the Greek-Turkish relations.
The participants of the 22nd Ship for World Youth were also present or
participating in a discussion on line, giving their own feedback about the issue.
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