The mission of International Forgiveness Institute is to promote the psychology and education of forgiveness.  We are in contact with people from all over the world, who are also interested in studying and promoting forgiveness.

Currently, the IFI launched in 2--2 a program on forgiveness for children in Belfast, Northern Ireland. This program has been researched at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. At Present we have worked in over 60 classrooms from first grade (Primary 3) Belfast through early Middle School. Each year more grades, schools, and classrooms will join the effort.

We are making a multi-year commitment to the children of Northern Ireland, in the hope of involving an entire generation of children (from the first grade level through the end of secondary school) in Forgiveness Education. It is our hope that such an intensive exposure to forgiveness will help these children, once they become adults, to handle their conflicts between and among one another with greater peace -- based on the principles of forgiveness.

Northern Ireland is a land that has not know peace for at least 800 years. We, at the International Forgiveness Institute, will try to support teachers, pastors, and parents by giving them information as they help the children learn to forgive, in the hope of affecting a deeper and more lasting peace.

We launched in 2004 a similar program in Milwaukee's central city. As of the 2007-2008 academic year we are in over 75 classrooms, from grades 1 through 6. Similar efforts are underway in Madison, WI.

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