Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste e.V.

About us

For over 60 years, Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste (Action Reconciliation Service for Peace) has been working as an organization for remembrance, understanding and human rights. This commitment thrives on the cooperation of volunteers, full-time and honorary staff and our international partner organizations.

Today, these aims are continued and realised through the long-term international peace service programme. This is known as peace service because, in co-operation with our partners, volunteers develop their understanding of history and other cultures and societies, whilst experiencing and accepting different patterns of thought and behaviour. Nowadays, due to generational change, ARSP volunteers do not act from a feeling of personal guilt, but rather from the conviction that they want to make a positive contribution toward a more peaceful, just and tolerant world. Every year around 180 volunteers, mostly aged between nineteen and twenty five are active for ARSP in thirteen different countries on a variety of educational, historical, political and social projects.

https://asf-ev.de/en