The Minnesota Peacemaker Project is a joint program offered by the Minnesota Fellowship of Reconciliation and Hamline Students FOR Peace. These organizations each aim to provide world citizens with tools for peace and justice work, and come together with this project to focus on the need for youth education and training in our geographic region. The Youth Training that will take place this summer is the primary event of the Minnesota Peacemaker Project, which was started in 1999 in an effort to give meaning to the United Nation’s declaration of the Years 2001-2001 as the Decade of Non-Violence.

The Minnesota Peacemaker Project is a week long event that combines educational grounding in the theory and history of non-violence, visits with peace and justice groups working on local and international issues, experience preparing and facilitating issues and skills workshops, and a guided opportunity to plan a local project or action.

Young people hold a vital role among the visionaries and activists working for a more peaceful society, bringing their sense of urgency to a common call for a just and sustainable world. The 2001 Minnesota Peace Maker Project is designed to provide upcoming leaders with tools and experience to become more effective leaders of social change. These tools include: