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Friedenspraxis is a non-profit association in Vienna. We work with children, young people and adults to train the core competence for successful coexistence: the ability to endure contradictions and navigate them productively — within oneself, with others and in society.
Peace is not the absence of tension, but the ability to remain regulated, capable of acting and in relationship within tension.
We work evidence-based, hands-on and ideologically neutral. Our approach is dialectical: we don't dissolve contradictions, we learn to act with them. Self-assertion and empathy. Setting boundaries and staying in relationship. Enduring conflict and cooperating.
The association pursues non-profit purposes (§§ 34 ff Austrian Federal Fiscal Code) and promotes peace capability at all levels of human coexistence — individual, interpersonal and societal. Concretely:
Our starting offering is a workshop series for lower-secondary students — four modules building on each other: perceive → regulate → communicate → cooperate. From there we will gradually expand: parent workshops alongside the school series, teacher training, train-the-trainer programmes, workplace conflict prevention, civic education and intercultural trainings.
Chair · Founder
Two decades of practice at the intersection of education, youth work and conflict support: youth centre management, development and leadership of projects for young people at risk of exclusion (AFIT, MOFA), intercultural workshops in schools, mediation. Trained in education, mediation, systemic coaching and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT).
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Deputy Chair · Treasurer · Founder
Educator with many years of leadership experience at the Vienna Youth Centres association (Verein Wiener Jugendzentren). Since August 2022 part of the team of the Wiener Bildungsversprechen ("Vienna Education Promise") — a programme of the City of Vienna in cooperation with the Vienna Education Directorate and the University College of Teacher Education Vienna (PH Wien) — responsible for programme development, process facilitation and quality assurance in school development.
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