BRIDGES PeaceJam
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BRIDGES PeaceJam provides opportunities for students from first grade through high school to study the art of peace and develop their own skills as peacemakers.
Register Now for the 2010 PeaceJam Youth Conference
Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner, will host the 2010 PeaceJam Mid-South Conference from Feb. 20-21 at Rhodes College. This two day event will offer high school youth (ages 14-19) an innovative, community building experience full of fun and inspiration. Besides opportunities to interact with each other and Ebadi, youth will participate in service projects and workshops that are designed to build young people's skills and knowledge around teambuilding, tolerance, peaceful dialogue, human security, and social justice while introducing them to challenges and solutions that affect the local community and the global community. Through peaceful dialogue, students will address local issues that are important to them.
For Youth Ages 14-19
At Rhodes College
On February 20, 2010 (8 am- 8pm) - February 21, 2010 (8 am-3:30 pm)
$75.00 for Students and Adult Sponsors (fee includes 5 meals and T-shirt)
Register online today.
Saturday, February 20, 2010, 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Day 1-Activities Include: 8 am-Check-In, Continental Breakfast, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Opening Address with Q&A, Breakout Sessions, Lunch, Binghampton Service Plunge, Service Reflections, Dinner, Evening Entertainment, 8 p.m.-End Day 1
Sunday, February 21, 2010, 8 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Day 2-Activities Include: 8 am-Check-In, Continental Breakfast, Ceremony of Inspiration, Breakout Sessions, Students' Global Call to Action Projects with Laureate, Lunch, Workshops, Workshop Reflections, Closing Ceremony, 3:30 p.m.-Conference End
Click Here to learn more about Shirin Ebadi and the 2010 PeaceJam Youth Conference.
PeaceJam In the Mid-South
BRIDGES is the host of the Mid-South Affiliate for PeaceJam, an international organization led by 11 Nobel Peace Laureates including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, Jody Williams and Rigoberta Menchu Tum. BRIDGES PeaceJam provides opportunities for youth from elementary to university level to become agents of peace and positive change in themselves, their communities and the world, through the study of the lives and work of Nobel Laureates and youth-led community action projects. 
In partnership with the University of Memphis and Rhodes College, BRIDGES sponsors PeaceJam programs for high school youth from Memphis and Shelby County as well as across Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas and Kentucky. Events include an annual youth conference hosted by a Nobel Peace Laureate at Rhodes College. There are currently students from over 40 middle and high schools participating in PeaceJam programs and events. In addition, four elementary schools in Memphis are currently implementing the PeaceJam Juniors curriculum on a school-wide level.
A variety of new opportunities for high school students to get involved with PeaceJam during spring and summer breaks are upcoming! Do you want to have more information, establish and/or improve an existing PeaceJam Program at your school organization? If so, contact Program Director, Dana Wilson!
Global Call to Action (GCA)
In September of 2006, ten of the laureates linked to PeaceJam, including the Dalai Llama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, gathered in Denver with more than 3,000 young people from across the globe as part of a celebration of the 10th anniversary of the PeaceJam Foundation. At the gathering, the laureates and young people launched a 10-year Global Call to Action designed to tackle some of the toughest problems facing our planet. Since then the Global Call to Action has become a centerpiece of what PeaceJam organizers call one of the "greatest youth movements of all time." Check out the video below to learn more about the Global Call to Action.