CREATORS OF PEACE (CoP)
STORIES

Peace Circles are a development of Creators of Peace and are a simple tool to gather a diversity of women together to look at their role in the perpetration and resolution of conflict in the home and community.

Creators of Peace Circles being used as a tool in the pursuit of national reconciliation in Malaysia is the conviction of Regina Morris. A professional trainer and ordinary housewife, Regina is discovering what it means to be extraordinary. As a Creators of Peace coordinator for Malaysia and facilitator of Peace Circles, she tells here of the journey from idea to action, from facilitator to practitioner.

A group of women met together in August in Sydney

In May/June another Peace Circle workshop was held in Garankuwa, north of Pretoria.

Marie Chaftari attended a Creators of Peace conference in 2001. Part of her inspiration for starting the Linaltaki movement with Lina Charafeddine came from that experience and the CoP Peace Circles currently being used in various parts of the world.

In February/March 2007, Peace Circles involved 31 participants in Johannesburg.

In 2005 a catholic school invited Creators of Peace activist Helena Salazar, to introduce the Peace Circle material into a class of 35 grade 10 school boys.

A case study in getting started by Trish McDonald Harrison