They even translated some material we brought with us and are planning to continue their work as a working group. The other half of the group met every evening at 8 pm to continue the introduction to nonviolence. The next Saturday, eight members of ARK met to prepare an introduction to nonviolence that they planned to give the next day on their own. With them we had four afternoons, four hours each, in a hospital in Zagreb. The programme was more or less the same as with the other group.
Language is no real problem.
We did the seminars in English and there were always one or more people who spoke English so fluently that they were able to translate sentence by sentence. Small-group work was done in Croatian, with whispered translation for us. Of course, this method of working needs approximately double the time of working in one language. In the group evaluations people said that they found trainings helpful from the point of view of the contents as well as creating a better feeling, giving hope, empowerment, etc. Two members of ARK plan to travel around in Croatia to find out if there are other places where trainings would be useful and have asked us, in general, if we would be ready to come again and also to work in other war-stricken regions.