Survivors for Peace

Survivors for Peace provides victims of political violence and terrorism with a virtual and real peer support network with dedicated officers to maintain communication platforms, as well as a programme of activities which survivors enrol upon after intensive one-to-one interviews. Survivors (including family members and formers) are taken through interactive non-formal learning and support delivery at our purpose-built Peace Centre and elsewhere, intended to help them cope with and recover from their experiences.

Through sessions on Living with Trauma and Sharing Experiences, survivors are trained and supported to engage in their own separate Advocacy and Leadership activities, often commemorating and raising awareness of the impact of violent extremism with a view to reducing its future incidence. Expertly trained and supported, survivors also co-facilitate our specialist team’s provision of Critical Incident Training to aid first responder preparations for terrorist attacks.

Activities also include Dialogue, where survivors are encouraged to meet with formers or representatives of the ‘other side’ with a view to mutual humanisation and the breaking of the cycle of violence. The approach relies on being restricted to survivors of political violence and their families, but is directed to helping them move beyond their particular incidents and conflicts through peer support from survivors of various kinds of violent extremism, often from very different conflicts. An approach responding to the needs of survivors of political violence, Survivors for Peace is highly complementary with other local and regional de-radicalising and disengaging processes by allowing for victim input—even participation—where appropriate.

Contact details:

The Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Peace Centre
Peace Drive
Great Sankey,Warrington
Cheshire, WA5 1HQ
United Kingdom

Kelly Simcock
Director of Commissions
Email: info@foundation4peace.org 
Tel: (+44)1925581231