Memory beyond Rhetoric
WWI AND THE GROWTH OF THE PACIFIST MOVEMENT IN EUROPE
From 7th-12th
November 2015
Verdun
(France)
Type of Work: The volunteers
will help the World Peace Centre
for the development of gardens.
This includes: painting, planting
plants, weeding, maintaining
moats, landscaping...
Content: Work, Study part on NoMore-War, visit of Verdun.
Accommodation: Participants
will share rooms near the World
Peace Centre. So you need to
bring your own sleeping bag, a
sheet for the mattress and a pillow.
If you are vegetarian or have any
medical or health requirements,
please inform us.
Language: English
Requirements: Volunteers need to
register on our Online Placement
System for this workcamp:
h t t p : / / w w w. w o r k c a m p s . i n f o /
icamps/FR-SCI/fr/camp-details/
camp-9198.html
Location: Verdun is the peace
capital in the Meuse county
(in Lorraine region, northeastern France).
International Workcamp to promote peace
Memory beyond Rhetoric is a SCI “remembrance project”. A project
focused on WWI and the growth of the pacifist movement in Europe
since the world war began. With it, SCI aims to promote a mature idea
of peace and non-violence. SCI’s remembrance project critically
analyses the image of soldiers-heroes and wants to contribute to a real
understanding of the history and diversity of the European Union,
which was created as a peace guarantee.
Memory beyond Rhetoric includes the organization of seminars and
activities in some of the most meaningful scenarios of the First World
War, such as the international seminar in Verdun, France, where the
“Battle of Verdun” was fought in 1916 and where Pierre Cérésole
organized the first SCI workcamp in 1920.
Since that first workcamp at Esnes-en-Argonne near Verdun, SCI is the
first volunteering organization which helps people and local
communities by co-organizing projects with international volunteers
taking part in it. These workcamps of volunteers all around the world
help to develop the values of SCI: promote a culture of peace, enhance
solidarity, enforce intercultural understanding, fight for social justice
and contribute to a more sustainable development.
SCI France wants to propose you to take part to a mini work camp in
Verdun, at the World Centre for Peace, Freedoms and Human rights,
which was built in the Episcopal Palace in the 18th century.
It's a perfect place for reflections within the movement to promote
peace and contribute to our No-More-War campaign.
Additional information: This workcamp is open for everyone, and
you are also welcome to stay longer! We organize a seminar right after
the last day of workcamp, from 12th till 15th November. So if you are
interested in this part of the Memory beyond Rhetoric project and
want to spread more of your knowledge about Peace, peace education,
stand against discriminations… and spend some more good time in
France with SCI, just tell us ! See you soon.
Apply on workcamps.info
Camp code : FR-SCI 12.6