“Give Peace a Chance” was a Training Course ERASMUS+ project funded by EU, implemented in Pervolia, Larnaca, Cyprus, from 12-20.10.2023, with the Hosting organization: ENAAL Cyprus. There were participants from Cyprus, Greece, Germany, Slovakia, Lithuania, Italy, Spain, Croatia, Romania, Czech Republic. The project aimed to enhance conflict management skills, focusing on emotional intelligence and communication for youth workers, and for this effectively organized, implemented, and assess youth activities for individuals with diverse cultural backgrounds, including refugees, migrants, and minorities. In today’s multicultural societies, local communities have become more diverse due to European mobility and the presence of refugees and migrants. Understanding and addressing intercultural differences, communication codes, and stereotypes can be challenging but essential to combat xenophobia. Through this project, empowered youth workers with competencies in emotional intelligence, conflict management, and communication. "Give Peace a chance" was a training course that was implemented in Cyprus during the period of 12-20 October, 2023. The training course was aimed to bring together 30 youth workers from 10 countries who are actively engaged in their local youth organization and who strongly promote intercultural awareness and tolerance, as fundamental principles of peace in our modern, multi-cultural European societies. The project aimed to distribute intercultural learning and with tolerance and peace building, share the best practices of peaceful, non-violent public actions in order to raise the quality of youth work. The aim of the training course was to provide an overview on how to transform conflicts vianon-violent actions. Nowadays, with the emerging migration crisis and armed conflicts being held across the Eastern Europe and beyond, we feel the need of equipping youth workers with skills of peacebuilding and non-violent techniques. Our objectives were: -to develop participants` understanding of concepts of peace and peace education at the personal, interpersonal and institutional level; -to gain awareness on the importance of nonviolent conflict resolution by getting familiar with a concept of nonviolenceand ways to incorporate it into the peace education; -to support participants to learn how to guide and facilitate intercultural processes in peace education settings; -to empower and mentor participants to act as trainers and multipliers of the peaceful values in their educational youthwork Project aimed to make youth workers to be aware of the cause and consequences of different conflicts, develop methods to combat conflicts peacefully and how to address them towards young people. The project used a number of non-formal education methods to provide participants with theoretical and practical knowledge about the nature and consequences of conflicts. We exchanged creative thoughts on how non-violent dialogue could help us in “building bridges between East and West” on religious, intercultural and International levels, using non-formal education tools and methods. The TC goal was to empower them to address extremism and radicalization in Europe. The project focused on promoting human rights, peace, equality, social inclusion, and using arts for multicultural dialogue. Participants explored topics such as reconciliation, peacebuilding, and overcoming cultural barriers. They learned about non-violent actions, conflict transformation skills, and their role in civic society. Also, The project aimed to enhance participants competencies in non-formal education and peacebuilding, enabling them to spread ideas on non-violence to young people across Europe. Through non-formal education methods like team projects, movie screenings, simulation games, and role-plays, the project aims to foster an understanding of extremism, social exclusion, and hate speech. It also seeks to promote youth interactions, networks, and partnerships, while raising awareness and appreciation of different cultures. The project was designed by the group of international youth workers and activists — members of NGO's — working in the peacebuilding field. As young people we believe that peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is also defined as the attitudes, institutions and structures that build and sustain peaceful societies. Being able to build peace means for us to have the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, nonviolently and with creativity. Those capacities in peacebuilding needs to be learned, but very often our school systems do not ensure teaching based on the human rights and culture of peace approaches. That’s why we wanted to show youth the way, so they can lead others in the field and bring a sustainable peace in the world.