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Peace Services and Voluntary Peace Work

Peace Service projects are often focused on bringing support to countries in conflict or post-conflict situations. Many members of the movement are active in peace services. Some of them choose to live and work as a volunteer for a short or long time in another country to assist local civil society organisations in their daily work.

Peace services also give youth from countries with mandatory military service a non-violent means of performing their duty to their country and the world.

Highlights

• Pax Christi International is a founding member of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Israel and Palestine.

• Each year, Pax Christi International facilitates the exchange of volunteers between Germany and Poland. German volunteers work on different projects in Poland, while Polish volunteers are offered an opportunity to work in Germany.

• Pax Christi Germany also facilitates Civil Peace Services (German) projects in the Philippines and Sri Lanka.