Embodying Peace Fellowship in the Holy Land: A Coloring Book

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For three months of 2020, I got the chance to support grassroots peacebuilding in the Holy Land through the Embodying Peace Fellowship. As a peace fellow, I worked with ReGeneration Education, a local NGO aiming to support peacebuilding through innovations in education, particularly trauma-informed and Waldorf approaches, to support resilience of children in crisis zones. For my capstone project, we decided to create a coloring book of visions of and for peace by teachers and students of the first intercultural Jewish-Arab Waldorf school – Ein Bustan (Maayan Babustan).

The coloring book is created on the basis of Color Up Peace. You can now download the coloring book HERE. 

 


As that dear to me peacebuilder said, “trauma-informed education is the way forward, it’s the future”.

 Please, bear in mind that this is a peacebuilding effort and guard it from being misused. Do not remove logos or manipulate images. Photographers retain copyright for their photos. Copyright of coloring pages to Lisa Glybchenko and Color Up Peace. Only personal use for peacebuilding and peacethinking is allowed. If you would like to build on the book in some ways or have questions, do not hesitate to get in touch with Lisa Glybchenko or Color Up Peace.  Note: for security reasons, the document is protected from editing. But you can still print it out and color.

 Check out Embodying Peace.

Check out ReGeneration Education. 

Check out Ein Bustan. 




Location: Israel and Palestine

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