Peace One Day Australia!

CISV Victoria took to the main square in Melbourne to celebrate Peace Day through the idea of One Day One Word from the IJB community. We had people of all ages helping recruit the people of Melbourne to share their idea of peace with us in one word. We had around 40 people write their words on our peace board and had some great discussions with people about why we were there.

Heath recruiting people 

What people wrote!

- Heath Puddefoot 
    Victoria, Australia

Peace one day in Vietnam

Last Sunday September 23^rd, JBVN organized the event Peace one day for all CISV members. With the great spirit of CISV, the event was a general success as it had been anticipated.

Close to 70 people participated in a simulation game (creatively designed by JBVN core), which was divided into 3 main parts: Resource hunt, Peace hunt and Aftermath. In Resource hunt, participants were divided into groups of 10 and groups were to find resources for their “countries” from a total of 6 Chinese master stations located all over the park. In Peace hunt, groups were to negotiate and trade resources with one another. Wars were declared between the groups “countries” when an agreement could not be reached. After witnessing the consequences from multiple wars, we moved on to the last section Aftermath, in which we sat back to discuss the game together.

Through the game, JBVN would like to send out the message that “Peace is impossible to achieve if we are so blinded by individual profits that we forget about others”.

Some thoughts from JBVN core members: As this was the first time our new core has ever come together to organize a big event, we were both very excited and worried. Afterwards, we were really happy to see that the participants not only enjoyed the event very much, but they also gave us lots of support and encouragement. This made us determined to organized more cool and meaningful events for CISV Vietnam in the future.

Nguyen Hoang Dung - JBVN

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