Call for participants for this years Wikipedia for Peace camp: What defines Genocide? We will also discuss and share how to fight ongoing genocide apart from Wikipedia – and create a network of people who care!
Youth exchange, 06 to 13 September 2025 in Bern, Switzerland and four online editing sessions in October and November.
Wikipedia for Peace is a long-term project to contribute more peace-related content to Wikipedia. It has been organised by Service Civil International and Wikimedia since 2015 in order to improve the content about peace on Wikipedia and to engage new target groups (young people, activists, women*, queer people) in the world of Wikipedia. More than 280 people have participated in these camps and more than 1.325 articles have been written, improved and translated. This years edition is co-organised by the No More War– an antimilitarist collective within Service Civil International (SCI).
About the training
In 2025, we are dedicating Wikipedia for Peace to genocide prevention. Genocide is not just something decided by courts or something from the past – we need to actively work to prevent it. The terminology of genocide is controversial, and discussions about how to prevent it often happen from the top down rather than from the ground up. But what use is terminology if it can only be applied to past crimes against humanity that are beyond our control? How can we, as young people and members of civil society, prevent genocide in the present and future? One of the many things we can work on is improving Wikipedia togehter…
Practicalities
Who can participate? Living in Catalunya, Palestine, Switzerland or Poland and being between 18 and 30! Your nationality doesn’t matter, just whether you live in one of these places.
Financial conditions: Participation is for free.
🏡 Simple life: We will live as a community during this week! You will sleep in a room shared with a few other people and will be involved in cleaning and cooking tasks.
🍅 Sustainable food: The food we provide will be vegan. This is not just a practical decision, but also an ideological one.
🦺 Safer space and awareness: While we acknowledge that it is not possible to create a safe space and exchanges like this are always also learning spaces, we will do our best to make the project a safer space, to create an awareness concept and take the individual needs of all participants into account. We find this especially important, when some of the participants are living through genocide themselves.
