Peace Building and Conflict Management by Interact Club of Chelsea International Academy

Introduction:

Peace Building and Conflict Management is an area of study that focuses on how
violence and conflict management are viewed, addressed and solved. Project: Peace
Building and Conflict Management was introduced as it has become a necessary tool in
this contemporary society with violent people.

 It was an online event organized by Interact Club of Chelsea International Academy and Co-host Club Interact Club of GoldenGate Int’l College. It was an effort to help interactors know how conflicts can be resolved peacefully through a hypothetical conflict situation that was provided to them which they had to solve in a group. The event helped interactors understand and learn about the topic, Rotary’s four way test, current conflict situation between countries as well as help them work in a group.

Objectives:

1.To help teenagers know how important conflict management is.
2. To make attendees realize peace is what makes us stand united.
3.To make them understand anger makes you lose many things in life.
4.Promote knowledge of Peace Building and Conflict Management.

Project summary:

On the occasion of Interact Week, ‘Peace Building and Conflict Management’
was organized on October 31 2022 and formally started at 8:10 P.M. Itr.
Sumeena Lama from ICGGIC acknowledged the guests and welcomed the guest
speaker as well as introduced him to the attendees. Then, Itr. Sarthak Lekhak
from ICCIA delivered the welcome speech. Rtn. Raju Sarkar, member of Rotary
District 3292 ‘Peace and Conflict’ sub-committee, was the guest speaker for this
event. He explained to us about active and passive violence. Active violence has
mobilization of weapons such as guns and is obvious to see even from the
outside. However, passive violence isn’t obvious from the outside. It seems like
peace but people can’t actually enjoy peace due to the presence of issues such as
discrimination. This passive violence, if not addressed, will go on and eventually
become a full blown war. We also learned about the 4 types of conflict:
pathway, mutually exclusive goals, distributive conflict and value based and the
stages of how a normal situation becomes armed conflict. At the Q & A session,
Rtn. Raju Sarkar answered the questions from the attendees. After the Q & A
session, a token of love was presented to the guest speaker and we moved on to
the breakout session. For the breakout session, the attendees were divided into
5 groups and each group worked together to solve the given scenario: “Imagine
that you’re working in a group along with 4 other members where you’re
assigned as the leader. The team has been assigned a group project which must
be submitted within a week. Every member of the team is assigned a specific
task by the teacher. This project is important for all to get good grades as yet
final grade will be determined to the extent by how well the group project is
done.
One of the group members, Ocean, has been causing some problems. From the
start, s/he rarely attended the group meeting. Talking to people who have
worked with s/he has shared that s/he never completed the assigned task in
prior terms. Among the members of your group, Ocean is the only person who is
creating this problem.                                                                                    

Suppose the group project is due in 2 days. Ocean has again skipped today’s meeting in which the group has planned to put together the final draft of their work. Everyone is furious and wants to confront Ocean about the situation as this is a really important project for everyone. What should you as a group leader do?”

After the breakout session, each group presented their answer. Then, the ‘Most Enthusiastic Interator’ and ‘Most Outstanding Group’ were announced to be Itr.Nishant Giri from ICGGIC and Group A moderated by Itr. Resman Basnet. Itr. Nischal Dahal from ICGGIC then provided the event summary and Itr. Ashim Sapkota from ICCIA presented the vote of thanks. The event formally ended at 10:36 P.M. and we had a fellowship session afterwards.

Feedbacks of Attendees:
1.They were very happy about the event. They further added that many
people talk about guys having to be powerful and should put up a fight
rather than solving it with peace talks. So, they were happy to know
peace is much more valuable than to fight without cause.

2.They were happy to hear Rtn. Raju Sarkar talks about this as he is a
well-known speaker who stands for Human Rights.

Conclusion:

This project turned out to be more magical than we thought of it. As the event
kept going many people opened up with their queries which were out of this
world to hear. Listening to people wanting to change themselves it gave us a lot
of encouragement. Our Aim for this event was nothing more than to let people
know you are not going to be weak if you don’t fight physically while standing
for peace.