The PBI Peace Education Program primarily takes the form of Conflict Transformation trainings and workshops. As part of a strategy to both follow up and maintain sustainability of the program, a Training of Trainers is also offered at the request of a local partner. The goals of the workshops are to strengthen and build the capacity of local organisations and individuals to develop and effectively use conflict transformation models that are appropriate to the local situation. In this way, PBI hopes to empower local Peace Builders and Trainers, lessening and eventually ending the need for PBI's program.
The methodology and core values of this work is based on the experience and work of John Paul Lederach amongst others. People and their everyday understandings and experiences are seen as the key resource in a community and this knowledge is valued and trusted. PBI in this context provides a safe space for people to recognise, reflect upon and develop and share their own unique approaches to conflict to conflict situations in their daily lives, their community and society at large.
PBI works from a perspective which recognises the strengths and capacities for peace in communities and incorporates principles of adult learning and popular education. A workshop with a focus on conflict resolution may have extensive parts in which the local wisdom and local strategies for mediation and conflict resolution is explored and unravelled and the participants build their own models for working in their own communities.
