International Volunteers
International Volunteers
The Center for Peacebuilding hosts volunteers from around the world who share our vision of reconciliation and healing in Bosnia and Herzegovina, despite the difficult scars left from trauma and war. Volunteers have come to us through the European Voluntary Service, their own funding, or through other fellowship and academic opportunities such as doctoral research. In the past two years we’ve hosted fifteen of volunteers hailing from France, Germany, Romania, Sweden, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Switzerland.
Before founding the Center for Peacebuilding in 2004, Vahidin received a Master’s degree at the School for International Training (SIT) in Brattleboro, Vermont in International Relations with a concentration in Conflict Transformation. Additionally, Vahidin served as a teaching assistant in SIT’s Conflict Transformation Across Cultures (CONTACT) program, where he taught classes on forgiveness and conflict transformation. He has attended peace workshops and trainings throughout the world, including in Switzerland, the Philippines, and Nepal, where he helped to found a peacebuilding organization. In 2011, the Threshold Foundation honored Vahidin with the 5th International Bremen Peace Award, naming him the year’s “Unknown Peace Worker.”
