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 Peace Education Program has conducted over 30 conflict transformation workshops since the year 2000 in provinces including:
- West Timor, (Kupang dan Kefamenanu)
- Flores, (Bajawa, Larantuka, Maumere, Lembata-Lewoleba, Ende)
- East Timor,
- Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam,
- Jakarta,
- North Sumatra (Medan)
- South Sulawesi.
- Papua
Participants from these workshops have come from a wide cross-section of Indonesian society, including:
- religious organisations
- traditional leaders,
- women's groups,
- PBI's client organisations,
- human rights lawyers and activists,
- grass roots humanitarian organisations,
- Academics, Students and University lecturers,
- local level leaders, such as village leaders and Heads of Districts,
- members from the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights.
Thus PBI's peace education program has reached peace builders at the grass roots, middle and upper levels of society.
