“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education” - Maria Montessori, educator We are motivated to carry out the training course for changemakers transforming conflicts in Europe, as we believe that culture of peace will be achieved when citizens of the world understand global problems, have the skills to resolve conflicts constructively, know and live by international standards of human rights, gender and racial equality and appreciate cultural diversity. We are living in the times of difficult political context, where war and violence is still seen as a primary tool for conflicts resolution. Following the 2015 terror attacks in Paris and Copenhagen the EU renewed its interest in education and has sought to promote common values and social inclusion. In 2018 EU published a policy on education in emergencies that specified developing education for peace and protection as a priority. Being in line with the mentioned effort of the EU, we also see a deep need to explore with young people peaceful alternatives to conflict. The aim of the project is to empower 30 youth leaders to act as new changemakers in the local and regional conflicts in Europe by using human rights and peacebuilding mediation and strengthening their skills in the conflict transformation and community building that includes all opinions and leads to the participation of all society (including people with less resources). The objectives are: To develop participants competences in conflict transformation by exploring perspectives of human rights, peacebuilding and democratic participation. To improve participants skills in data analysis and research to map violent conflicts (based on the root-causes method) and how they affect young people. To empower participants to be actively engage in solving the violent conflicts that are ongoing or may appear in Europe at the behavioral, cultural or structural level. To explore tools for nonviolent conflict resolution, such as mediation, community meetings, non-violent communication, deconstruction of the image of “the other”, intercultural learning and the principle of inclusivity. To plan local actions in the participants` communities in the format of community meetings in order to provide the counter-narrative preventing escalation of tensions. To enhance international cooperation of youth workers in the area of conflict prevention and transformation, by planning cross-border actions focussing on community building as a counter balance for violent conflicts. To strengthen sustainability of the network of young changemakers who will bring awareness for the citizens and policy-makers in the EU and neighbouring countries on the existing conflicts and ways to transform them