Centro Studi Sereno Regis

The Sereno Regis Study Center is a No-profit Organization promoting research programs, education and action on issues such as political participation, nonviolent people's defense, peace and interculture education, nonviolent conflict transformation, sustainable development models, renewable energy, sustainable territorial planning, participatory democracy, bioecologic architecture, relationship between nonviolence and arts and ecology at large. The Study Center was formally established in 1982 by the International Reconciliation Movement, IFOR Italian section, and the Nonviolent Movement. The Sereno Regis Study Center is open to collaborations with other grassroot organizations and movements. Sereno Regis Peace Study Center is organized in working areas, managed by volunteers (trained and motivated) and supported by professional staff: -PEACE EDUCATION GROUP "MARILENA CARDONE" The Peace Education Group promotes training sessions in various contexts (schools, no profit organizations, grassroot movements, youth centers etc...) in order to provide tools for managing and transforming conflicts through nonviolent means. The group tries to face any kind of violence: direct, cultural and structural working with young people, institutions and youth workers thinking that youth can be a bridge for peace inside societies. Some of the topics of the group are: peace education, intercultural education, fighting against cyberbulling and hate speech, youth creativity to build peace, nonviolent communication, development of peer mediation, participatory democracy and active citizenship, cooperative learning, peace education in earlier years. -IRENEA: CINEMA AND ARTS FOR PEACE Irenea is an artistic and social hub and lab that promotes nonviolent culture through different forms of art expressions. Art products are analyzed: how they speak about conflicts, how they can contribute to their nonviolent transformation and how they can be used to teach and learn nonviolence. -PASQUALE CAVALIERE PIEDMONT ECO-INSTITUTE is active in information, education and applied research about the major environmental issues: energy and environmental impact, green public procurement, transition in town, food sovereignty, waste reduction policies, sustainable mobility. -INTERNATIONAL AND MULTIMEDIAL PEACE, ENVIRONMENT & DEVELOPMENT LIBRARY It is Italy's most specific library on nonviolence issues. 27.000 books and an extensive collection of the main magazines about its mission subjects, a 1300 videos, and an archive including extensive records on the history of grassroots peace movements since 1960's are available.