Peace Work in Finland

Peace Union of Finland offers a wide range of different activities of peace work: 

We try to engage support for more efficient conflict resolution, conflict prevention and civilian crisis management. We want that the society would channell resources used on military eependiture to human security and development.

 
We work with

• advocasy on disarmamet, peace and security issues. We lobby parliament and the government on issues related to
  our field
• participate in global campaigns, such as
  Control Arms, which aims in getting a Global Arns Trade Treaty, international
  campaign to ban cluster munitions (CMC), International Campaign to Ban
  Landmines ( ICBL) and in Abolition 2000 and Mayors for Peace -networks, which
  both aim in total ban on nuclear weapons.

• We publish books, reports and magazines 

• We want to educate Young people into non-violent culture in
  School for Peace, we create and develope new methods of peace education
  and organize education for mentors of the School for Peace.

• We organize different events, such as the yearly Hiroshima
  -evening, United Nations's International Peace Day and United Nations's
  Disarmament Week.