A Breakthrough Partners initiative
Just Children wages peace by:
1. Equipping others with well-researched tools, training, and coaching that strengthens child peacebuilding efforts.
2. Researching how to more ethically and effectively support children in peacebuilding.
3. Connecting individuals and organizations with service opportunities and forging strategic partnerships that help mobilize child peacebuilders.
What’s in a name? Just Children helps children in developing nations impacted by civil war, places where justice is greatly needed. We also believe it is important that children and young people are not merely recipients of services, but are additionally equipped in healthy ways to help bring peace and justice in places of violence. As children encounter opportunities to serve, they experience healing and bring restoration in their communities. In this way they become children of justice, or Just Children.
* Child peacebuilding is the voluntary and meaningful participation of children in activities that promote peace—allowing them to be children of justice.
Child Peacebuilding Examples:
- Children of ethnic groups at war with one another going door to door exemplifying the possibility of friendship, and encourage ending a war that harms them
- children publicly performing a play they wrote showing war tragedies and challenging viewers to promote peace
- children gathering petition signatures encouraging government to take specific peace promoting actions. We plan to mobilize similar activities.