Flowers against violence

The Confrontation Foundation implemented an inclusive community-building, self-development and self-help networking experiment to dismantle prejudice, in order to increase the effectiveness, reach and sustainability of its nine-year Project Krókusz - Flowers Against Violence programme, which involved over 100 educators and thousands of students every year.

It connected effective NGOs with participants from six regions (committed, resource-poor educators from many different types of schools) using modern pedagogy and facilitation in a participatory training, self-training and dissemination programme that responded to their needs and situations.
It sensitised through facilitation and experiential pedagogy methods. The participants themselves developed and tested in integrated groups a peer support mentoring programme to help them develop themselves and their students to overcome their prejudices. They disseminated their results to others in their institutions, in teacher training and in the future regional centres that set up to generate online and offline dialogue. The resulting trust between teachers and their students could lay the foundations for awareness-raising, increased the demand for non-judgemental cooperation among more and more students and their communities, and reduce and manage prejudice-based violence.
Becasuse of the accident of the leader of the project, some planned goals have been reached just partly.

As their programmes develop, they can increase their network of contacts, acquire new tools and methods, fund their staff to ensure their security, and do more to promote and protect European values.