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From World Heritage Site to Peace Action

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From World Heritage Site to Peace Action

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WHV – Dong Phayayen Through the Lens.

#VSA Thailand: An international volunteer gathering in Thailand’s spectacular Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex. This dynamic initiative empowers global youth to champion World Heritage conservation by creating high-impact media content.

Through stunning photography, videography, and digital storytelling, volunteers will spotlight the site’s rich biodiversity, ancient ecosystems, and global significance, inspiring a worldwide audience to protect this vital natural wonder.

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We are the international family workcampers in Ohara, Japan in Jul. 25-31 organized by NICE! 18 vols. of 5 families from France/ Czech/ Japan are reviving a beautiful mountain village with only one inhabitant. We believe, the world will be more peaceful by working and living together such as we are doing here!

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Let's start to change the world from us!

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Let's start to change the world from us!

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Ai from NICE. My grandma is from Okinawa, and she had the experience of running away from island to island during the Battle of Okinawa in WWⅡ and hiding until the war was over. As I listened to her stories as a child, I felt fear and thought to myself that I must not forget her experience and minds for peace.

Now, many years have passed since the war. I believe that peace is the wish of all people, but if we look around the world, we still find sad and terrible things.

But one difference from my grandma era is we now have many friends from other countries thank to the workcamps! How can we join hands for the peace? I believe we can start to change the world from us by solidality beyond the nationality.

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From August 5 to 11, I participated in a work camp for Sudachi farmers in Tokushima, Japan.

Here they are working with Sudachi farmers in a marginal town to revitalize the community.

The goal is to accept 5,000 volunteers from around the world each year.

Colorful people gather, live and work together.

helping each other and understanding each other.

Once again, I strongly felt that the work camp is a step toward peace.

Moro from NICE

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Any war only ended up in creating memorials but

All pencils will end up create peaceful world. So let's drop the gun and give pencils to the world.

We are from MOVE Malaysia, currently doing workcamp in a place called Yayasan Chow Kit (YCK ) where many undocumented children from different background are educated. We belief all children are matters to this world. And education is only path to reach peace.

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We are the international workcamp 2024 in Peace Center Sievershausen, Germany. From August 5th until 19th, we gather 17 participants from over 10 countries to broaden our knowledge about peace and contribute to the Peace Center of Sievershausen.

First, on educational part of our workcamp, we confronted ourselves with the terrors of WWII and visited the former concentration camp in Bergen Belsen. As for the action that we are taking for the world peace action day:

We turned a former battlefield into a playground that can be used for educational work and pleasure of the locals. As well as working on a peace-themed painting to decorate one of the buildings of the Peace Center (Antikriegshaus) Sievershausen organisation.

We hope that our works can contribute for a more peaceful future :)

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We are from GREAT Indonesia, currently doing a workcamp in Pekalongan, Indonesia from August 11th-24th.

In a village of Mulyorejo, where the place has been in the thin line of getting drowned, we worked hard with our local partner to plant and cultivate mangrove. Aside from preventing abrasion, mangrove has many benefits for its surroundings.

We believe peace could also be maintained when it's not just human that could feel safe, but also animals, plants, and the environment.

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We are the international workcampers in Ogi, Japan in 2024 Aug. 10-28 organized by NICE and the local host! 4 vols. from France and Japan are maintaining the forest for protecting nature and helping work in the local festival. We believe that workcamps make more peaceful and better world. We become friends, understand each other and learn local and world issue. Let's move together for peace!

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we do work camp in community, we work together with local youth to support education programs and environmental reservation

AVAN Work Camp, 2024 August 11-24.

we have 9 volunteers. Laos, Japanese, Myanmar.

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Peace is always in our hand to create it, to work on it, to do it, and to give it away!

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Peace is always in our hand to create it, to work on it, to do it, and to give it away!

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Daisy, the flower in the picture here, for me symbolizes the un-endless effort and persistence to survive. No matter how many times their roots are being pulled and thrown away, they will go back in the breezy spring's morning greeting the world with their brightest beauty and charm. The way I want to encourage you all to create peace: no matter how many times the peace has been taken away, it is in our hand to make it, to work on it, to do it, and for us to choose to give it away. Puji - Alliance

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Let's make "Peace world" through International workcamp together!!

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Let's make "Peace world" through International workcamp together!!

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Yasu from NICE, Japan.

I'm on the way to go to Indonesia with some high school students.

We will join workcamp at orphanage in Indonesia.

This workcamp will celebrate Indonesia's Independence Day on 17th August and we will go to the event.

Previously, Japan and Indonesia were at war.

Indonesia was a Japanese colony, but became independent on 17th August 1945.

We are not born at that time, but it is a fact, Japan were at war with Indonesia.

"What can we do in this work camp?"

We want to involve many children in this workcamp, so I am determined that the workcamp will be a bridge between Japan and Indonesia and we want to make as many smiles as possible.

Let's make "Peace world" through International workcamp together!!

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SCI Peace Messengers spread the word of peace through interactive workshops at workcamps and other events, to emphasize SCI is in the first place an international peace movement and IVS is our main tool.

Currently we are running online peace messengers course where volunteers can become peace messenger themselves. We are also cooperating directly with SCI´s No More War team

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We need world where tolerance and respect of dignity must guide our daily actions to foster sustainable peace in our communities.

Let's Make Peace a Reality.

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 In the commemoration of the International Day of Action for Peace, whose theme this year is:
	From World War II to Palestine and Myanmar	
The volunteers of CJM organise throughout this week a series of workshops and activities that focus on the theme of peace, the role of youth in promoting the values of peace and tolerance, and the role of volunteer workcamps in bringing peoples closer together.  

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Salam from Morocco

We are CJM, this week we are organising 3 work camps in 3 different cities FES.OUJDA.LARACHE.

Volunteers from different backgrounds help children in difficult situation to develop their own skills .We believe that happy childhood can make better future

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Let's do our best until world peace will come.

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Let's do our best until world peace will come.

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Today is the day of the end of WWⅡ.

Now in Japan there is no war and we live peacelly, but it's built on the many sacrifices of the past.We must never mistake same way.

On the other hand, there are still wars and genocides in some countries.

I strongly hope peace will come all over the world and then people can live with peace and smile without discrimination of country, environment and skin color etc...

Eiko from Nice Japan.

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In this World Peace Actions Day, I pay tribute to all the victims of atrocities around the world.

Peace Actions are necessary to foster respect of dignity and humanity of every person to reach a sustainable peace.

Mahamadou Modibo Kamissoko

🇲🇱 Mali

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Greetings to everyone from Sicily. My name is Rosario Scollo, activist of Service Civil International (SCI Italy - Catania group). I have organized on August 6th an evening of readings and testimonies on the Italian Resistance and the atomic bomb in the main square of my town Mirabella Imbaccari, an opportunity for a collective reflection on the value of peace.

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Peace seems often like a far concept, but today, let's put it back in the center, as a direction, as a way, as a wish, as a prayer, from the IN as an awareness and a protection to the OUT as a result in our daily life and work. Let's unite our hearts today and support each other in that common direction. Step after step. From DaLaa organization in the South Thailand. Today with our team from Thailand, Myanmar and France, we are celebrating peace with you all.

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We are the International Workccamp of Akame, Japan occuring between Aug 9th to 19th. Our team features vols from the three Asian nations of Vietnam, China and Japan. Oragnized by NICE and the local hosts with the aim of strengthening the understanding of conservation and betterment of nature.

Our activities include a wide variety of expriences, both with nature and the local people. Ultimately, through this workcamp we hope to promote peace not just between each other, but also with the environment that we reside in.

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Wars that are based on revisionism, imperialism, terrorism and ultranationalism are crimes against humanity. Wars can bring agony and despair to a generation’s souls. Only through international solidarity, we can bring peace to our children and grandchildren.

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Friendship Foundation Nepal (FFN) has proudly organized numerous international peace work camps in Nepal, consistently striving to contribute to global peace and solidarity. This year, we are honored to take part in the 82nd International Peace Day celebration.

We warmly invite both our national and international volunteers to join us for this meaningful event on 15 August 2025.

Once again, we sincerely appeal to everyone around the world:
Let us be kind, choose peace, and work together for a more harmonious and joyful world.
Long live world peace.

Friendship Foundation Nepal (FFN)

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Peace is not just a word—it’s something we create together. I dream of a world where no child has to grow up with the fear of war, whether in Hiroshima, Palestine, Myanmar, or anywhere else. Here in my community, I will start small: bringing people together to talk, listen, and understand each other. I will work with young people to share stories, exchange cultures, and take part in acts of kindness that remind us we are all connected. Even the smallest step—a conversation, a shared meal, a helping hand—can plant the seeds of peace. If we keep taking those steps together, little by little, we can change the world.

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“I found hope in tiny weeds just began to sprout beside the railway tracks in a scorched wasteland.”

Whenever I remember memory with atomic bomb survivor, Ms. Emiko Okada from Hiroshima, I feel more determined.

“I would like you to work for peace. You are the ones who can do it.”

Yes, I am the one, and we are the ones.

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Never again war, never again fascism - nie wieder Krieg, nie wieder Faschismus

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Never again war, never again fascism - nie wieder Krieg, nie wieder Faschismus

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Ciao! Mi chiamo Valerio, ho 21 anni e vengo dall'Italia.

Hola, Mi nombre es Moisés, tengo 20 y soy de México.

Hallo, Ik ben Jan, ik kom uit België. Ik ben 64 jaar jong!

Hola! Soy Gabriel, tengo 17 y soy un voluntario del Peru!

Привет. Мы Вика и Маша из России. Kaixo! Gorka naiz, Bilbokoa, eta 48 urte ditut.

Salut, Mon nom est Jean-Pierre Jules J ai 60 ans je viens de Belgique et RDC.

Hallo, ich bin Greta, 24 Jahre alt und aus Deutschland.

Together we are 335 years old.

Our workcamp is taking place in Heideruh, the oldest anti-fascist meeting place and recreation center in northern Germany from 9-29 of August 2025. Our work includes preparing the outdoor area for the upcoming 100 year anniversary next year through woodwork and renovation of infrastructure. We are also going to look at and discuss the history of fascism and war in Germany and all over the world. Our common goal is to learn from the past and work together towards world peace.

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Hola From De Amicitia workcamp in Spain,Yesterday we developed with the group of volunteers “a step in the world”, where they played characters from different social classes in the various countries engaged in the war. After intense debate, we developed an activity for children that would lightly bring, the same conscious conclusion.

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✨a world without lines that separate us ✨🌈

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✨a world without lines that separate us ✨🌈

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Hola from the De Amicitia Workcamp in Spain.

This morning, we developed the thought-with-volunteers activity “everyone has a choice”.

we divided the field with a rope, on the one hand there was the choice of “yes”, on the other the “no”.🪢

we asked them if in case of help they would open the doors of their house to someone, if they risked donating a plate of food to others, if they had helped a friend from another country.

we discussed their answers and finally wrote down our conception of peace “a world without lines that separate us”. 🖍️

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Hello from the Workcamp in the memorial Augustaschacht! We bring together direct action and remembrance culture: We do archaeological excavations in a former concentration camp in an international group to keep the memories and prevent the remembered stories from happening again.

In our Workcamp we keep the memories alive by learning from different memorials and museums in the region, support the memorial Augustaschacht with excavations and exchanging about our backgrounds and different approaches to rememberance.

Our group is small but very close and nice. We come from Ukraine, Spain, Mexico, Hungary, Italy, France and Germany. We realize every day how great this opportunity is to come together from different parts of the world and be open to our perspectives and learn from another. We especially appreciate this opportunity in times of many ongoing wars and conflicts and many tendencies of rising fascism in different parts of the world.

Let us continue to use every chance to build bridges across boarders and bring people of different parts of the world together!

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Young participants from America attended the temple program in Korea(IWO_BW) while their program and learnt about the inner peace and how can spread over. Who can create the peace? Must be a person has an inner peace! It is a calm and powerful.

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As part of the Midterm Camp organized by VASE for our international volunteers, participants took part in a collaborative collage activity focused on the concept of peace.

Through this creative exercise, volunteers reflected on and visually expressed what peace means to them from their own cultural and personal perspectives. The activity aimed to encourage dialogue, intercultural understanding, and collective reflection on the importance of peacebuilding, while providing a space for participants to share their ideas in an engaging and creative way.

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Peace is not just an abstract concept; it is built daily through solidarity, shared work, and intercultural learning.

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Peace is not just an abstract concept; it is built daily through solidarity, shared work, and intercultural learning.

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At COCAT, we strongly believe that active citizenship and international volunteering are powerful engines for global peace and mutual understanding.

Every year, we connect young people from Catalonia with local communities all around the world. Our work camps offer spaces where diverse cultures live and work together on local projects..

Our commitment to peace is based on three basic pillars: Intercultural Dialogue, by breaking down stereotypes and building bridges of solidarity across borders; Inclusion & Equal Opportunities, ensuring that international mobility is accessible to all young people, including those with fewer opportunities & Community Empowerment, supporting local grassroots initiatives through collective, peaceful action and shared values.

Greetings from Catalonia to all peacebuilders around the globe! 🌍 cocat.org

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Peace in Our Words: “I Am Because We Are”

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Peace in Our Words: “I Am Because We Are”

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As part of the SAWC (Southern African Workcamp Cooperation) Caravan Workcamp, participants came together for an engaging Peace Dialogue, led by Ian Mugowa, CCIVS Youth Committee Member.

The dialogue explored what peace means to us and how we can build it through our everyday interactions. The participants’ Peace Word Cloud captured powerful reflections: absence of conflict, open communication, respect, freedom of self-expression, unity, equality, and diversity.

The 40-day Caravan brings volunteers together across Botswana 🇧🇼, Zimbabwe 🇿🇼, South Africa 🇿🇦, and Mozambique 🇲🇿, creating a space for cultural exchange, volunteering, learning, and building connections across borders.

Rooted in the theme “Rooted in Heritage, Growing a Sustainable Future,” the Peace Dialogue reminded us that a sustainable future is also built on understanding, respect, inclusion, and togetherness.

At the heart of the conversation was the African philosophy of Ubuntu — “I am because we are.” Through dialogue and shared experiences, participants reflected on how peace begins with each of us and grows when we create spaces where everyone feels heard, respected, valued, and belonging.

Our words. Our actions. Our Ubuntu. Our Peace.