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“Peace Connections” Video Conferences

Thanks to Merrylands High School and Abbotsleigh Girls High School for hosting the first 2 Peace Connections video conferences in 2009!
Following the success of these events, YPI will again be coordinating regular video conferences in 2010, in cooperation with NSW DET’s Distance and Rural Technology Program, bringing together students from public, Catholic, and private secondary schools from around NSW.
Topics & speakers for 2010 will include Australian hip-hop artists discussing their music as a platform for social justice promotion, Australian comedians [...]

2010 YPI Student Mentoring Program

This year YPI is partnering with Sydney University’s Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies (CPACS) to run a youth mentoring program for schools wanting to strengthen their student-led activities in conflict resolution, social justice, anti-racism, anti-bullying, community service, and/or peer mediation.

The program will be run in two cycles in 2010, starting with the first cycle in Terms 1 and 2 (beginning in early March). The purpose of the program is to facilitate two-way learning between high school students involved in [...]

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