PACEY Award Ceremony, January 21, 2023
Meet the nine finalists.
Vote for your choice for the three winners.
Dear friends,
Basel Peace Office has just announced the nine finalists of the 2023 PACEY (Peace, nuclear Abolition and Climate Engaged Youth) Award. Together with Youth Fusion, they will hold the 2023 PACEY Award ceremony online on January 21, where the finalists will present their projects and the audience will then vote for the three winners. The winners will each receive a prize of €5000 plus organizational support for their initiatives.
“We received nominations of over 80 inspiring youth projects and project proposals from around the world," says Ms Marzhan Nurzhan, Deputy-Director of Basel Peace Office and Co-founder of Youth Fusion. "The nine finalists are just a sample of the quality and level of youth action on these important issues for humanity and the planet.”
UNFOLD ZERO encourages everyone in the peace, disarmament and climate action communities to register for the Award Ceremony, where you can meet the finalists, learn more about their exciting initiatives and vote to determine the three winners.
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PACEY Awards - elevating youth actions
“Young people in Europe and around the world are standing up to demand policy progress on the climate crisis, nuclear abolition and ending war,” says Prof (em) Andreas Nidecker MD, President of the Basel Peace Office and founder of the PACEY Award. ‘They clearly see the threats to current and future generations and are taking action.”
“Peace and security are the central starting points on the path to sustainable development,” says Dr Lukas Ott (lic. phil.), Head of Canton and Urban Development, Presidential Department of the Canton of Basel-Stadt. “Peace is the foundation that something good can grow out of. Youth-led projects and activities that promote peace, climate-protection and disarmament are more important now than ever.”
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PACEY Award 2023 Finalists
The PACEY Award will confer one prize for a project based in Europe and two prizes for projects based outside of Europe.
The three finalists in the European project category are:
- Global Perspectives on Corporate Climate Legal Tactics (United Kingdom)
A project to examine the unique aspects of climate litigation across the corporate world leading to the production of a toolbox for the effective implementation of climate law.
- Peace in our Schools (Georgia)
Founded by Jewish and Muslim peacemakers from Georgia and Afghanistan, this project will provide emotional intelligence and conflict resolution training to young Ukrainian refugees and Russian immigrants, who have fled the Russia-Ukraine war.
- SAFNA Youth Forum Database (Switzerland)
Submitted by the Swiss Association of Lawyers for Nuclear Disarmament (SAFNA) Youth Forum, the objective of this project is to create a database on nuclear disarmament and arms control, with commentaries on national legislation and jurisprudence.
The six finalists in the Beyond Europe category (2 prizes) are:
- Adopt a tree, not a weapon (Democratic Republic of Congo)
A program run by former child soldiers and other young volunteers, using innovative techniques like inter-active theatre, to educate and engage youth in addressing the climate crisis and armed violence in the region.
- Ertis Mektebi school (Kazakhstan)
A project to provide mainstreamed education for third and fourth generation victims of Soviet nuclear testing. Over 4000 children in the Semipalatinsk region have neuropsychological and musculoskeletal disabilities arising from the transgenerational impact of more than 460 nuclear tests.
- Nuclear Lives: Uranium Mining on Indigenous Communities of Meghalaya (India)
An interview series documenting the testimonies of victims of uranium mining in Meghalaya. The uranium is used for both nuclear weapons and nuclear energy.
- Silence the Guns (Cameroon)
A program led by Children for Peace to educate and engage children, especially girls, in Central Africa in non-violence and peace-building in order to counter violent extremism, armed conflict and the illicit proliferation of weapons.
- Storytelling as a Catalyst of Action for Peace, Love, and Climate Justice in the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa)
A project led by the MENA Youth Network which aims to establish an online media archive of stories and voices of youth in the MENA region most affected by the intersection of conflict and climate change.
- Youth Peace Caravans (Sudan/Uganda)
A peacebuilding program initiated and led by a former child soldier from South Sudan in the refugee settlements in northern Uganda to foster peace among the South Sudanese young refugees, who come from a range of tribes with a long history of animosity.
For more information on the nine finalists, please see Basel Peace Office announces the nine finalists for the 2023 PACEY Youth Award.
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Yours sincerely
UNFOLD ZERO
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