Vilka vi är
We are a non-profit and member-driven youth and peace organisation. It is a norm-critical platform with the vision of a fair and sustainable world in peace, where young people are active social actors. This society is characterised by peace, global justice and solidarity, across and beyond constructed, national, cultural, social and economic boundaries.
Vision
PeaceWorks är en ideell och medlemsdriven ungdoms- och fredsorganisation. Det är en normkritisk plattform med visionen om en rättvis och hållbar värld i fred, där unga är aktiva samhällsaktörer. Detta samhälle kännetecknas av fred, global rättvisa och solidaritet, över och förbi konstruerade, nationella, kulturella, sociala och ekonomiska gränser.
Fokusområden
In our work, we work mainly on three focus areas
Feminism
We live in a patriarchal world, which means that legal, economic and political power is mainly distributed to, and benefits men. We believe that Sweden, too, is still strongly influenced by patriarchal structures, despite the fact that the formal laws are based on principles of equal value for all. Structures (formal and informal) and norms that, based on gender, still regulate people's life opportunities and everyday life.
PeaceWorks also does not recognize the binary gender system * and opposes the idea that it would be anything other than a socially constructed categorization of gender. Our work in the field of feminism is also permeated by challenging the dominant Western feminism that is rooted in colonial power relations.
Global justice
Att vi lever i en postkolonial värld innebär även (utöver att rasistiska, patriarkala och koloniala föreställningar fortgår) att maktförhållanden i relationen mellan det globala syd* och det globala nord* reproducerar en orättvis distribution av resurser som fortsätter bygga på exploatering och plundring av före detta kolonialiserade länder.
PeaceWorks tar aktivt ställning mot dessa aktioner som fortsätter exploateringen av det globala syd. Det innebär att vi har en kritisk hållning till bistånd, internationellt volontärande och traditionell utvecklingsarbete där “utvecklade länder” förväntas lära “utvecklingsländer” hur de ska utvecklas.
Antirasism
We also live in a postcolonial world. This means that racist thought patterns and structures are an integral part of societies around the world, which affects our everyday lives. As an example of this, there is still a whiteness norm that creates unequal conditions and conditions for people based on socially constructed ideas about race and ethnicity.
It is, for example, about attitudes that have a racist starting point being reproduced, without us directly understanding them as racist. This is the basis for what we call the racial power order. The Order of Force is an expression of violence that PeaceWorks works to both make visible and counteract.
Our principles
Solidarity
Vi är en solidarisk organisation.
- Tar ställning mot ekonomiska och sociala system som skapar och reproducerar orättvisor och ojämn fördelning av makt och resurser
- Arbetar med konkreta solidariska handlingar och metoder såväl lokalt som globalt
Equality
We start from the equal value of all human beings. We therefore strive to counteract all forms of superiority and subordination of people who continue to legitimize the world's inequality and injustice.
Youth perspective
We are a youth organization run by and for young people.
Critical reflexion
Through critical reflection, we strive to make visible and challenge dominant notions of the world, as well as counteract global power structures that are based on these notions.
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