The Ayele Foundation

One Child for Peace Internship

One Child for Peace is a peacebuilding program that inculcates a sense of peace building among students in schools located in areas that have suffered/currently suffering from ethnic conflict in Ghana. This is done whilst assisting with teaching and learning activities in selected Junior and Senior High Schools. As each student become an ambassador of peace, the knowledge gained is translated into their families which in turn builds an entire society towards reconciliation and peacebuilding. The program is based on adopted principles from the Arbinger Institute.

“Education is an embodiment of many things, with what we face in the world today there could not be any other time to include peace building in our educational system, this is a grassroot approach to solving interpersonal conflicts, ethnic conflicts and war at large”—Cassis Augustine Smith.

Interns are engaged in the following:

• Teaching English, Mathematics and science (depending on interest of Intern)
• Teaching Peacebuilding using videos from the Rwandan genocide, Somalian war, Liberian war to showcase the effects of war.
• Using the principles of Terry Warner and Arbinger in forgiveness and getting out of the “box”
• Using Conflicting Resolution methods as adopted from Arbinger.
• Conducting research

To be considered for One Child for Peace Internship Program, you must:

• be an undergraduate student who is currently enrolled in an accredited university perusing one of the following:
  • International Peacebuilding
  • Social work
  • Psychology
  • International Cultural Studies
  • Anthropology
  • be a junior or senior
• complete at least one of the following:
  • introduction to peacebuilding
  • social psychology
  • African History/World History

In addition to the above, student must demonstrate strong Interest in peacebuilding, conflict resolution, international affairs, and/or experiential learning