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Youth Work Against Extremism

2020-1-UK01-KA105-0782842020Youth mobilityfinalizedGood practice
Countries: UK|TR|ES|IT|LT|PL|FR|DE · Grant: €23,780
Ethics, religion and philosophy (incl. Inter-religious dialogue)EU Citizenship, EU awareness and DemocracySocial dialogue

Objectives

Radicalisation leading to violent extremism and terrorism is not a new phenomenon but the process is now taking place at an alarming speed and scale in Europe. Violent radicalisation and extremism refer to using, threatening with, encouraging or justifying violence based on one’s own view of the world, or on ideological grounds." Youth workers play a crucial role in: -strengthening vulnerable young people’s resilience to violent ideologies by developing their critical thinking and helping them recognise the harm violence can cause to them and their communities, and preventing them from feeling marginalised and turning away from society towards radicalisation. - supporting young people to deal with challenges they face; -Empowering young people to have a greater degree of autonomy, self-determination and control over their lives in order to enable them to represent their interests in a responsible way. TC gathers youth workers, leaders and volunteers to explore causes and outcomes of violent extremism and radicalization nd innovative and non-formal approaches for preventing it via promoting tolerance, European values, inter-religious and intercultural dialogue by using creative tools. Objectives of the TC: -To furnish youth workers and leaders with tools and innovative methods to work with young people vulnerable to radicalization. - strengthen young people’s resilience, prevent marginalisation, promote equality, emphasise alternatives and reinforce the cohesion of communities - To re-explore the key concepts, such as stereotypes, prejudices, discrimination, extremism, intolerance and their transformation in European reality - To provide space to youth workers to exchange experience in promoting of intercultural dialogue and transferring the common fundamental values of our society particularly to the hard to reach young people - To create space for exchange of current situation in partner’ countries - To share the best practices and methods and to find new to address the problem of youth radicalization for develeping new projects for local communities. - To explore the potential of international youth mobility as an opportunity for youth to promote European values - To promote active citizenship, international dialogue, non-formal education and creative skills of participants -

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