Dear friends,
We are pleased to inform you that our handbook Nonviolence! Peacebuilding Training Handbook by Ivana Franović and Nenad Vukosavljević, first published at the end of 2018, is now available in Albanian and Macedonian translation.
We translated the handbook in cooperation with Peace Action from Prilep and under the watchful eye of Luan Imeri.
The Albanian translation of the handbook is titled Padhunshmëria! Doracak trajnimesh për ndërtimin e paqes. It was edited by Luan Imeri and translated by Safet Ballazhi.
The Macedonian translation of the handbook is titled Ненасилство!. Прирачник за тренинг за градење мир. It was edited by Ana Bitoljanu and translated by Renata Dedova.
The handbooks provide suggestions for workshops and exercises about a whole range of topics closely related to peacebuilding: nonviolent communication, cooperation and teamwork; perception, violence, prejudice and discrimination; identity, national identity and diversity; understanding conflict; gender equality; dealing with the past; peacebuilding; reconciliation; nonviolence and nonviolent action.
This publication aims to put forward ideas that advocate nonviolence and peacebuilding, and present how we understand terms such as conflict, violence, nonviolence, reconciliation, peacebuilding, dealing with the past. It also brings together a whole range of difficulties we have faced in our work and the more successful responses we have used.
The handbook is both a tool and an example of how we can stand up to violence with nonviolence. Here, we primarily mean peace education, which is why we believe the handbook will be most useful to people working in education, formal and non-formal, as well as all those working to achieve change in the societies where they live and struggle.
We hope that this handbook will provide support and assistance, that it will serve as a tool and a shield, that it will be the root and the water to all of you brave enough to foster the values of nonviolence and nonviolent struggle, constantly watering and nurturing, while protecting others and yourselves, in order to create the conditions for a better outlook and a freer future for us all.