Annual Report 2005

PEACE

“Peace – it’s not as simple as black and white” – that’s how veteran Scout peace campaigner Paul Browne explained the complexity of building bridges between embattled communities in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Whether you address issues such as the Western/Muslim divide, the rift between Belfast’s Catholics and Protestants, the violent street gangs of Salvador, youth crime in Hong Kong, isolated immigrants in Stockholm, marginalized AIDS orphans in Cape Town or frightened communities in New Orleans, Scout volunteers have found that you’ve got to look beyond the obvious black and white assumptions to find a solution.

These programmes described in this report are a sample of the many “Gifts for Peace” involving millions of Scouts in over 90 countries so far, and will involve many more by the end of 2006.