APS Casa per la Pace Milano

Casa per la Pace Milano is a nonprofit organisation. It was founded in 2000 with the aim of promoting nonviolence, social justice and active citizenship. The organisation believes that any social change has its roots in education and personal growth processes, therefore one of the main activities are the workshops and training courses. The trainings are based on nonformal education methods where direct experiences, maieutics and cooperative learning are the basis. The main target groups of this workshops are the school actors (childre, teenagers, teachers and parents), youngsters and adults from different backgrounds. Complementary to the educational field, there is the community development in suburbs and social housing neighborhoods.In this context the organisation facilitates activities to increase people’s participation in the daily life of their quarter, taking care of common areas, promoting the dialog among people with different backgrounds and needs wich sometimes see each others as antagonist. Collective wall painting, social theatre, gardening, recycling labs, bike repairing, food sharing, italian school for migrants are some of the activities proposed in this field. Since 2008 it has hosted international voluntees, first with EVS programs and, since 2019, with ESC. The organisation has taken part and organised several training weeks for youth workers in Youth in Action and Erasmus+ frames.