How I can use peace building in my own community

程淑玲在泰国清迈的学习已经进入第二周，能够与其一起接触不一样的地域文化与NGO工作方法，why not?

I think before I use peace building in my own community, I need to learn what is peace, how can I be in peace and how can I get alone with others in peace? I spent a lot of time thinking about this problem before I came to Mekong School.
 
When I studied in my university, I liked to read Buddhism books, and I was influenced by Thich Nhat Hanh.He teaches people how to keep peace in our hearts, and that we should be satisfied with the life and the things we have. We can enjoy our time when stay alone or look at one flower. Except learn from the master, I also talked about how to keep peace with my friends, we have the same interest. It is easy for us to become anger and sad, so we need a long time to learn how to keep inner peace.  We should always mind ourselves to be concern with others, and not be too greedy.
 
The first step is to learn how to keep inner peace, and the second step is learning how to keep peace with others and a team. I work at Blue Dalian after I graduated from university. There was a volunteer team at my institution; they come from different provinces, have different experiences and studied different major. So I had to respect everyone and make them get along well with each other. In a team, you should change you role, to create a space that everybody can feel peace, and can easily explain their ideas about study and work. Because I connect with everyone, so I tell myself, I am not the one to express myself but to help others; I need to help others to have good emotion.
 
With different groups, the way to make peace is different. I have found it is more complex to build peace in a community than in a volunteer team. My project is located in a town in Dalian city, and our goal is to protect the river. But we should to deal with the relation with the government, the factory and the villager in first, because they are the stakeholder. We spent the time to find the villagers’ ideas, the local government’s opinion, and the factory’s benefit. The gold factory can make money from the gold mine, and than pay the revenue to the local government. But the villagers are victims, because the water is polluted by the mineral waste residue.
 
Finally, we decide to help the villager to protect their interests. Even villagers are victims, they also have different requirements. Some of them are afraid of the local government and the factory, some of them just want to move away, and some don’t trust us. So we need to talk with them, establish a trusting relationship, and make sure the villager can fight for the same goal.
 
In the project, the key is to have a trusting relationship, and keep peace in the village. Every family has different requirements, and we need to realize that and respect them, and then find a common goal that to appeal the factory to fight.
 
Now, I am still work for this project. I can’t answer the question clearly that how to use the peace building in my community, but if I face new problem in future, I will remember the class about peace building and use it. I think the good lesson is that have an unconsciously influenced to you.
 
Thanks for the class of peace building. We learned how to build peace systematically and share our experience. I think working in community will enable us to learn more deeply.