Our Interest:

A4O believes that peace education is a primary pillar for preventing conflict and violence, saving lives, and freeing up limited resources for vital social needs. It also promotes the knowledge, skills and attitudes that will help people either to prevent the occurrence of conflict, resolve conflicts peacefully, or create social conditions conducive to peace.

Hence, we are interested in peace education to help members of our community to gain knowledge, enhance their skills in the area of peace, and form an attitude about the meaning of peace in human life.

Plan:

A4O aims to help members of Oromo community to gain knowledge, enhance their skills in the area of peace, and form an attitude about the meaning of peace in human life.

Goals:

1. To appreciate the richness of the concept of peace

2. To help people discover their own inner strength and personal peace.

3. To promote a concept of peace

4. To teach peace as a process

4. To provide a futures orientation