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Groups with which Pat Patfoort has
worked :
- teachers
(e.g. in a typical school day) of traditional schools, schools for socially,
physically or mentally handicapped children, alternative schools (like
Freinet, Montessori, Steiner schools);
- directors
of schools (during study
days);
- students
of elementary and secondary schools, groups of adolescents, youth
associations;
- parents
(e.g. in school committees, day-care centers, local groups various sorts,
groups of host parents or foster parents, etc.);
- family
and elderly helpers, social workers;
- nurses
and caretakers in hospitals, in homes for elderly people, in institutions
for socially and mentally handicapped people, in centers for immigrants;
- adult
educators;
- university
students and staff, e.g.
in the Universities of Leuven, Gent and Brussels (Belgium); the Technical
Universities of Eindhoven and Zwolle (the Netherlands); the Universities of
Firenze, Pisa, Bologna and Cagliari (Italy); Colorado University (Denver,
Boulder, Colorado Springs), George Mason University (Washington) and the
Universities of Berkeley and of San Francisco (California) in the US;
- students
preparing to be elementary school teachers, kindergarten teachers, educators;
- students
in peace universities,
like the Peace University of Namur (Belgium), the European Peace University
of Schlaining (Austria), the Peace University of San Jose (Costa Rica), the
International University of Peoples’ Institutions for Peace (IUPIP,
Rovereto, Italy);
- peace
organisations, like War
Resisters International (WRI), Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), Rocky
Mountain Peace Center (Boulder, Colorado, USA), Resource Centre for
Nonviolence (Santa Cruz, California, USA), International Peace Service
(Moscow, Russia);
- conscientious
objectors accomplishing their civil service;
- action
groups, ecological groups, third world organisations, religious groups,
cultural organisations, local politicians;
- women
groups, gay and lesbian associations, groups of divorced people;
- associations
of physicians, associations of engineers, managers of hotel
and catering industry (e.g. innkeepers);
- trade
unions;
- police
departments, judges, judicial and social workers;
- ex-drug
addicts, delinquent youth, prisoners
(particularly with a long sentence, because, for instance, of having killed
or raped);
- groups
of rebels (in
West-Africa);
- international
seminars, e.g. with
youth of conflict areas, like from North-Ireland, South-Africa,
ex-Yugoslavia, ex-Soviet Union, different African countries;
- Peace
Brigades International
(PBI), Peace Workers Teams (working in conflict area’s), NGO’s
active in developing countries.
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