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Konstantin Tsiarokhin

Co-founder and Educational Director of the Svet Peace Project, a nonprofit bringing young people together across the Russia-Ukraine-Belarus divide through dialogue-based education.

Sep 23, 2026

Nonviolence Radio

Nonviolence Radio

Two Students and an Experiment in Peace: The Svet Peace Project

Sep 23 · 59m

Amir BirginGUEST
7:12
And then our project was born that maybe Konstantin will talk more
Konstantin TsiarokhinGUEST
7:17
about.
Konstantin TsiarokhinGUEST
7:17
My name is Konstantin and I grew up in Belarus, which is squeezed in between Russia and Ukraine, west of Russia and Ukraine.
Konstantin TsiarokhinGUEST
7:29
Mostly there I spent my kind of formative years.
Konstantin TsiarokhinGUEST
7:33
I then moved to Ukraine for a little bit prior to the war where some of my extended family lives.
Konstantin TsiarokhinGUEST
7:40
And I was there for a year before the start of the war, 21, 22.
Konstantin TsiarokhinGUEST
7:45
And when the war began, I was in the capital.

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Stephanie Van Hook
Stephanie Van HookHOST
25:53
Can you speak to this and maybe what you've seen in your work with students?

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