Peace Promoter: Interviver

OVERVIEW

Name:  INTERVIVER  Interviver.org

Type:  Portugese not for profit organisation

Mission Statement:  to promote of health, well-being and Peace in Portugal

Peace-promoting activities:   InterViver is working with municipalities in the Greater Lisbon Area with civil society mobilisation for health, well-being and Peace. InterViver offers a Peace Education Program as well as, in cooperation with the Higher Institute for Social and Political Sciences (Lisbon), well-being lessons for 7 th, 8th and 9th graders. The pilot project is being implemented this academic year in a public school in Cascais.


Short description:

InterViver aims to show leadership in  promoting health, welfare and peace,  by actively contributing to the promotion of civic participation in the development of local communities. InterViver sees the contribution and involvement of civil society in Health, Welfare and Peace  as fundamental. 

InterViver sets up local civil society work teams engaged earnestly in democratic and pluralistic dialogue and in collaboration with the responsible authorities to identify  issues of  health, welfare and peace. Resolution of these problems is possible with the contribution and involvement of civil society.