The Peace Campaign urgently needs your help. This curriculum reduces violence by teaching conflict resolution strategies, building community and a personal commitment to peace. It’s estimated 60% reduction in its first round, with the community asking for it back. Help us fund the NEW curriculum and the next cohort.
When survivors become peacemakers and Difference Makers, we stop violence in its tracks.
Picture young men once pulled into conflict, now running the peace circles instead.
The Peace Campaign is a conflict resolution and community outreach curriculum, written and taught by refugees who lived through the violence themselves.
In its first round, it reduced violence by an estimated 60% in Kakuma and Kalobeyei. In fact, it’s so successful, camp managers have asked for it to run for every incoming refugee.
Help these survivors, teachers, leaders, and empowered Difference Makers.
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The Difference Makers who wrote the curriculum are the ones who survived it.
For years, violence has torn through refugee camps, especially for people fleeing the wars in South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda, Somalia, Burundi, Rwanda, Ethiop Hu ia, Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Conflict affects the youth and women especially, leaving them scarred by trauma and with little to do and little reason to hope.
Outside programs have been tried, but what works is a curriculum written by Difference Makers inside, who have lived experience. Refugees teach the very people walking the path they once walked, turning survival into leadership.
The Peace Campaign results are extraordinary. In its first round, violence in Kakuma and Kalobeyei has dropped by an estimated 60%. So the camp administration has asked Let’s Make THE Difference to run the program for every refugee and asylum seeker.
This is what’s possible when a community leads its own path to peace, and Difference Makers around the world decide to stand with them.
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Your gift empowers Difference Makers to break the cycle of violence
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The camp administreation wants it for every new arrival.
When the person who runs the settlement asks for your program to reach every refugee who walks in, you know it’s working. Your gift turns that need into reality for the next group to arrive, and for everyone who comes after them.
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The young men most at risk become the Difference Makers keeping the peace.
The same age group that commits most of the violence is the group that The Peace Campaign turns into peacemakers. Fund a cohort, then you and a young man halfway across the world are doing the same thing: breaking the cycle of violence.
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An estimated 60% less violence, born from lived experience.
Success belongs to the Difference Makers who lived the conflict. When you give, you support the people who built the approach that has outperformed every alternative.
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Peace spreads to wherever The Peace Campaign graduates travel.
One graduate completed the six-month program in Kakuma, then carried it across a border to teach peace in his own village. Fund the training, and you’re not funding one camp; you’re helping to grow a movement that crosses borders, one Difference Maker at a time.
Why this model works
The people closest to the conflict are the closest to peace.
Let’s Make THE Difference doesn’t operate inside a Western conflict-resolution model. Instead, The Peace Campaign curriculum is written strategically and taught by local Difference Makers who have lived through violence. They created it for their own settlements, in the languages and realities they live in.
That’s why it works where outside efforts fall short, why camp managers want it standardized for everyone who arrives, and why every Difference Maker who funds it is part of something the community has already proven can transform a settlement.
Be a Difference Maker who helps a proven solution reach further.
The Peace Campaign urgently needs your help.
This curriculum cut violence by an estimated 60% in its first round, and the community is asking for it back.
What The Training Covers
What The Peace Campaign can accomplish.
Six months turn a participant into a facilitator and Difference Maker.
The Peace Campaign runs as a six-month, in-person course. Participants meet five days a week for two-hour sessions in a classroom, working through the material with facilitators who teach in their areas of expertise.
Godefrey Sangu and Emange lead the Peace and Conflict Resolution training. Honoré Ebengo leads Democracy and Elections. Instruction runs primarily in English, with support in French and Swahili so participants can follow the material in the language they live in.
Graduates are able to run peace circles, mediate disputes, and train the next group themselves.
- The core modules. The actual units of the curriculum, in plain language (the real list, not invented).
- How it's delivered. In-person circles, cohort size, and weekly cadence across the six months.
- What a graduate can do. The concrete capability or certification earned at the end.
- The languages it's taught in. Reinforces the refugee-written, locally-grounded point.
- The core modules. The actual units of the curriculum, in plain language (the real list, not invented).
- How it's delivered. In-person circles, cohort size, and weekly cadence across the six months.
- What a graduate can do. The concrete capability or certification earned at the end.
- The languages it's taught in. Reinforces the refugee-written, locally-grounded point.
The curriculum covers three areas:
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Democracy and Elections
The principles of democracy, the difference between democracy and elections, and the civic-engagement and governance topics that come with both.
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Peace and Conflict Resolution
Why peace matters, how conflict starts and what it costs a community, and the practical work of resolving it.
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Leadership Development
Ethical leadership, personal responsibility, community leadership skills, and how to mobilize change in their own communities.
By the Numbers
Less violence, measured.
estimated drop in violence across Kakuma and Kalobeyei
settlements where it's been proven
the age range of those most at risk, and the ones it trains as facilitators
how long it ran before funding lapsed, with the community asking for it back since
Written by refugees. Taught by refugees. Requested by the camp administration for every incoming refugee. Help us fund The Peace Campaign’s next cohort
◆ Aligned with the UN Global Goals · Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (SDG 16)
The Peace Campaign urgently needs your help.
This curriculum cut violence by an estimated 60% in its first round, and the community is asking for it back. Help us fund the NEW curriculum and the next cohort.
The people who run it
Survivors. Teachers. Leaders. Difference Makers.
The facilitators come up through Let’s Make THE Difference’s own leadership programs before they build and teach this one. The clearest example is Godfrey Sangu, a Difference Maker who became the first refugee Introduction Leader in the world, helped design the Peace & Conflict Resolution Outreach, and went on to supervise the women’s program.
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Godfrey Sangu
“I became the first refugee Introduction Leader in the world, helped design the Peace and Conflict Resolution project, and supervised the women’s program. These experiences shaped my leadership and my commitment to a better world.”
A Graduate's Story
Puok Mayian Gatwech took the peace home with him.
In 2020, Puok completed the six-month Leadership, Peace, and Conflict Resolution course in Kakuma. In 2022, he returned to South Sudan, a country where child soldiers are still common, and became a peace and conflict resolution trainer himself, working to calm conflicts between Nuer and Nuba communities. Today, Puok runs peace awareness programs in his own village.
He has become a teacher, leader, and Difference Maker. And, he’s just one of hundreds of Difference Makers carrying these skills into the places that need them most. Every cohort you help fund sends more peacemakers into the world, equipped to do the same.
The Peace Campaign urgently needs your help.
This curriculum cut violence by an estimated 60% in its first round, and the community is asking for it back.
Why now
The proof is here. The demand is here.
All that’s missing is you.
The reason to give today isn’t a deadline we invented. This program has already transformed two settlements, and the community has been asking for it to run again ever since, because they’ve felt what it’s like to live without it.
A settlement that has seen violence drop by an estimated 60% is ready to go further, with you standing beside the graduates already leading the way. LMTD’s low overhead allows 75 to 90 cents of every dollar to land directly in our projects. All it takes is ninety seconds to fund The Peace Campaign.
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