If you want peace, build civilty
World House
the concrete experience that transforms you into a peace builder
Are you ready to meet your enemy? To learn the art of dialogue?
To learn how to transform the conflict into an opportunity and generate social change?
The World House is the experience that you are looking for!
What is Rondine?
The association "Rondine Cittadella della Pace" is an international organization that exists since 1997 in order to promote dialogue and conflict resolution on different levels: interpersonal, political, and international.
Our work involves specifically the youth, organizes projects that facilitate confrontation, dialogue and education on various levels to promote social change.
WORLD HOUSE
The World House is the core project of Rondine and it hosts young professionals that come from countries in conflict or post-conflicts situations, that belong to different cultures, and that accept to live together with their own "enemy" in order to learn how to face the internal conflict and turn it into an opportunity for change. The World House is an international experience of civic commitment that lasts two years. During this time the participants can experiment innovation through conviviality, daily activities, non formal and formal education. The World House is where participants deconstruct the idea of the enemy,
develop constructive relationships with other participants, learn to confront other cultures and points of view. It is also a place where they collaborate on the promotion of peace building, consciously preparing to be leaders in contexts of rapid transformation, deep changes, and intense conflict situation. During this experience, the participants are expected to develop concrete social, political and economic projects that create social impact in the world. World House is a place that spreads awareness through actions and propagates the mission of the Association.
Who we are looking for?
Do you want to learn more about your internal, interpersonal and international conflicts? Are you willing to put yourself out there, listen to the others, and work in a group? Do you want to deepen your knowledge on topics of global sustainability such as climate change, cooperation, welfare and human rights? Are you willing to testify your experience and talk about it in public? Are you willing to cohabitate with other young adults from other religions and cultures? Are you willing to realize your project, create social change, help your country in conflict resolution? Then this is for you.
What do we do in Rondine?
- Everyday life:
- Sharing and confrontation in daily life represent the most important elements of Rondine experience. Continuously being in contact with other participants that belong to different realties of conflict, culture, experience and emotional background, is a unique occasion to get to know different points of view.
The interpersonal relationship established in daily life is the key to overcoming a conflict. Other important factors are listening to the other, comprehension, dialogue and sharing. The cohabitation is a process that over time leads to deconstruction of the idea of the enemy and recognition of a person in the other.
- High level training:
- Additionally, the participants receive high level training, proposed by Rondine’s team, on the specific topics of conflict management and communication abilities and methodologies. These serve as indispensable tools and knowledge for the development of self- awareness and of the world while also constructing concrete opportunities to make an impact in their societies of origin.
- Formal education:
- The third part of the trajectory is a professional and academic specialization, which includes the participation in a master course or other school of high professionalization to prepare for the work life with more sensibility and orientation to social change.
After having completed the program in Rondine, the participants of the World House return back to their countries of origin ready to act in relevant socio-cultural contexts side by side and helped by the Golden Swallows League (Lega delle Rondini d'Oro), the network of Rondine’s alumni. The League supports the alumni in realizing projects of cooperation and development, targeting peace building.
Call for Participants 2017
See all the details in pdf document by regions:
Who can participate?
Participants will be selected among candidates showing the following characteristics:
1. Aged between 21- 27;
2. Sensibility and readiness to work on the topics of conflict of the Country of origin and conflicts in general;
3. Predisposition to leadership;
4. Predisposition to public speaking and communication;
5. Predisposition to team and group work and active listening;
6. Predisposition to take on roles of responsibility;
7. Predisposition to team building and active involvement;
8. Predisposition to entrepreneurship and social innovation, with a clear project of return back home, which has a social impact on the issue of the conflict resolution or the social change;
9. Knowledge about the civil society and non- profit sector;
10. Sensibility about the global sustainability or at least about some of the following topics: climate change, cooperation, welfare, civil and social economy;
11. A wish to deal with the conflicts resolution, during his/her own personal professional growth.
The knowledge of English language is a competence required for a profitable participation in the Rondine training programme. On a comparable assessment of the previous characteristics, the presence of a candidate's sponsorship by a legal entity such as foundations, NGO or other non-profit bodies will be an added value. Sponsorship has to demonstrate relatedness to topics close to Rondine's and actual support, even financial, to the candidate.
The deadline
Those interested to participate in Rondine program have to send the documents strictly before the 19th March 2017 to the following email address: international@rondine.org, or international.rondine@gmail.com.
For more information please click "Further Official Information" below the announcement.