Somos CaPAZes

Playful activities to achieve peace

The following are some of the areas we hope to develop and offer in the near future, in addition to and in conjunction with the Somos CaPAZes curriculum we present in the classroom.

Projects in Planning

Among the possibilities for Somos CaPAZes in the future are Somos CaPAZes for school teachers and administrative personnel, Somos CaPAZes for parents, and Somos CaPAZes for vulnerable children and youth (displaced, abused, etc.).

Somos CaPAZes for other groups

We would like to create a library of books, magazines and audio-visual materials, both youth– and academically-oriented, focused on topics related to peace, conflict management, management of emotions, community involvement, negotiation and mediation, human rights, democracy, peace education, body language and effective communication, among others.

Library

Peer Mediation

Festival

In the short to medium term, we hope to be able to offer Somos CaPAZes programs for teenagers, one program for ages 12 to 15 and another for ages 16 to 18. Just as the playful activities of the current curriculum are designed for ages 8 to 11, there would be different fun activities to lead these other demographic groups through their explorations of conflict management and peace building.

Somos CaPAZes Teens

Planned as an extension of the Somos CaPAZes curriculum. Students would take turns being peer mediators once they complete the Somos CaPAZes curriculum sessions.

An important and very fun component of Peace by PEACE, the North American program that inspired Somos CaPAZes, is a Peace Festival. Part of the Somos CaPAZes curriculum would include a space for each class to design their own win-win/ peace game. At the end of the program, all the Somos CaPAZes students that year would take part in a big festival where everyone would play the peace games designed by each class. There would also be music and other fun activities, and we would hope to be able to give each student and volunteer their own Somos CaPAZes t-shirt to remind them what fun it can be to work toward peace.