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Outcomes

Since its inception, City at Peace has asked its young people “What are the capacities that you and other teenagers need to develop to achieve a ‘city at peace’?” Through analysis of their responses in accordance with current research, City at Peace staff have identified six outcomes that it strives to meet with each individual participant and each group as a community. They are:

1) increased understanding of other cultures and competence in building relationships with peers from other cultures

2) improved conflict resolution skills and the development of the will to resolve conflicts

3) improved leadership skills

4) understanding of and initiative toward community action for social change

5) positive and powerful sense of the future

6) producing performing arts excellence

For the future, City at Peace will continue to ask this question of its youth and will continue to refine and adjust its outcomes to meet their needs and the aim of a “city at peace”.

1) Cross-Cultural Understanding and Competence

  • demonstrates an awareness of personal biases and actively works to overcome a biased perspective
  • demonstrates an understanding of cultural and sub-cultural influence on personal decisions and choices
  • demonstrates a cognitive understanding of culture to mean broad categories (i.e., gender, race, age, etc.)
  • attains comfort with, readily develops and maintains cross-cultural relationships
  • listens actively and reflects inside cross-cultural relationships
  • demonstrates an understanding that power/non-power dynamics play an important role in cross-cultural relationships
  • asks clarifying questions with goal of being sensitive to culture and cultural differences

2) Conflict Resolution/Violence Prevention/Violence Reduction

  • demonstrates an understanding of and uses conflict resolution skills,
  • understands that conflicts are inevitable and indicate opportunity
  • demonstrates the ability to resolve naturally occurring conflicts without violence
  • advocates for other people’s perspectives
  • demonstrates ability to share power and create win/win’s in relationships
  • aware of and responsible for all of his/her relationships and their quality
  • share and communicate resolutions and the processes by which they’re achieved

3) Leadership

  • establishes set of values/beliefs and demonstrates independent set of actions that support those values/beliefs
  • models inclusiveness
  • takes responsibility for personal and group follow-through on plans
  • demonstrates an initiative for creating change
  • manages time well
  • plans activities with vision, mission and goals in mind and a clear strategy for achieving them
  • demonstrates “with-it-ness” - aware of all activity and all needs
  • develops a personal mission statement
  • honors commitments
  • evaluates his/her self, the process and performance regularly for fulfilling the vision, mission and goals established

4) Community Action

  • ability to identify his/her communities of concern
  • spends time working on community change projects
  • demonstrates the ability to conduct community needs assessment
  • initiates, plans, organizes, evaluates and completes positive community change project
  • engages others in project ownership and action
  • develops positive sense - competence and confidence - of potential to create positive community change
  • stays informed about community issues

5) Sense of the Future

  • envisions one’s self and others in the future, growing up and growing old
  • makes choices now based on future outcomes
  • conducts short- and long-term planning for the future
  • applies for and enrolls in post-secondary education
  • develops an awareness of and avoids high-risk behavior
  • communicates to others about the future

6) Performing Arts

  • demonstrates expansive use of voice and body to communicate
  • develops positive sense - competence and confidence - of creative potential
  • demonstrates improvement in skill in acting, dance, voice, singing, movement, improvisation
  • sees the value of practice, discipline and focus
  • demonstrates the ability to work in ensemble and to collaborate successfully
  • create, writes, rehearses, performs, evaluate and improves his/her own performance
  • develops personal standards of excellence
  • communicates “difficult” messages in public
  • takes risks in creative activity