Cambodia: LVE Training for Khmer Rouge

The training was for the former Khmer Rouge community leaders and head school teachers so that LVE can now be implemented with the whole community. A community of former Khmer Rouge Soldiers, men of whom had been soldiers all their life, were wonderful to work with and participated in all the creative values activities whole-heartedly. They created poems and songs on peace and danced Khmer dances while singing the songs on peace & harmony. The UNESCO person working with this community had his whole family and relatives killed by these men yet now he is so committed to helping and supporting them in their commitment to peace! - it was an incredible experience and really brought home one of the assumptions of the Living Values program; that the essence of everyone is good and that although it may become covered over by negative tendencies, the right environment and values activities can re-emerge it once more.