Operatori di Pace - Campania ONLUS

National Network
Italy
Address

Via Villanova 31, 31 Villanova Str.
Naples
Italy

Telephone
+393492914251
E-Mail
operatoridipace.campania@gmail.com
E-Mail (2)
gianmarco.pisa@gmail.com
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2007
Fields of Activity
  1. Human rights
General Information
Peace Workers Campania (“Operatori di Pace – Campania”) is the not-to profit organization of the professional civilian peace-keepers working in the field of peace work and human rights, with the specific aim at promoting nonviolence and positive transformation of local and international conflicts. It’s structured into a directors’ board of five members and a general assembly issuing the strategic association’s trends. The Association is open to partnership with local and international public authorities and with other peace-based and nonviolence-oriented NGOs, especially through actions like social promotion and education (in the areas of peace, nonviolence and human rights) into schools, universities and not-to-profit sector, social events in order to sensitize public opinion in acting for peace and nonviolent conflict resolution and projects in conflict areas based on the methodology of action-research and in the direction of Civilian Peace Corps and Peace Services/Interventions.
Mission and Objectives

Peace Workers Campania (“Operatori di Pace – Campania”) is devoted to the mission of promoting peace, human rights and nonviolence at any level of social life, either as a general environment for peace and justice and as a methodological acquaintance in order to work for positive peace, as in Johan Galtung’s theoretical and practical approach, and for nonviolent trend to solve conflict (conflict transformation as constructive transformation). Its general objective is to promote an environment, with special regard to young generations, of positive peace and human rights, and the specific objective is to run the idea and the practice of a real Civilian Peace Corp according with the European Union frame for ECPC (European Civilian Peace Corps) and to the original inspiration by European Parliamentarians Alexander Langer and Ernest Gulcher, in all their tasks (interposition, mediation, escorting, communication, education) either on local and international situations

Main Projects / Activities

01) Educational Programs in the field of “Open Schools” and inside regional and national programs with schools of any level based on the core-projects: “Violated Freedoms and Rights in Emergency and Conflict Situations”, “Peace Calendar”, “Atlas of Conflicts and Forgotten Wars”
02) International Solidarity and Social-Cultural Promotion Project “S.A.R.A” (“Social and Anthropological Roma-focused Action-research”) related to inter-cultural educational project for Socio-cultural and Anthropological Action, and Vocational Project for Not-to-Profit Operators “A.C.H.I.E.V.E” (“Alternative Conflict Handling to Inhibit Emergencies and Volunteering Empower”)
03) Action Researches for Peace Interventions in Conflict and Post-Conflict Areas like: “Peace Caravans in the Balkans” (Carovana di Pace nei Balcani) in Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia (2009), “Roma Kings” (I Re dei Rom) through Belgrade, K. Mitrovica (Serbia), Bucarest, Sibiu (Romania), Chisinau, Talmaza, Soroca (Moldova) (2010) and “Bosnia-Hercegovina: Faces and Stories” (Bosnia-Erzegovina: i Volti, le Storie) in Sarajevo, Mostar, Prijedor (2011) plus “Civilian Peace Corps Project in Kosovo” (2011-2012)

Contact (1) Full Name
Gianmarco Pisa
Head of the organisation
Gianmarco Pisa