Overview

The Friends International Library committee is happy to tell F/friends about an exciting international event directed towards youth of the world – the publication of Power of Goodness: Stories of Nonviolence and Reconciliation.

This multi-language book of stories showing love and kindness in action grew out of a wish to help children of the world learn the ways of peace. Our vision is that young readers of Power of Goodness will be inspired to act with courage and to bring good into the lives around them.

After the success of the first edition of the Chechen version the Friends International Library committee has partnered with Peacebuilding UK (the Centre for Peace and Community Development). Together, we are presently developing a peace curriculum utilizing the stories in Power of Goodness. Seminars focused on the peace curriculum will be conducted by Chechen psychologists for Chechen teachers. All teachers will have enough donated copies of the second Chechen version to take back to their prospective school communities.

The Power of Goodness project is an ongoing creation of the Friends International Library. People from Chechnya, Russia, Canada and the United States work on the project.