Education plays an essential role in the promotion of the core values of the EU such as democracy and human rights, as well as in the prevention of human rights violations. More generally, education is increasingly seen as a defence against the rise of violence, racism, extremism, xenophobia ethnic hate discrimination, nationalism and intolerance. In today's Europe we are unfortunately noticing the growing hate speech, direct forms of intolerance, radicalization and global inequalities. It is a general phenomenon present in many aspects of our society and powered by different mechanisms which link it to our collective imagination. There are existing narratives around us that are fueling hostility towards “the others” and support normalising violence. The violent narratives are concerning not only on the interpersonal level, but also on the planetary one on which the environment is not being treated as a priority. Being youth workers and working with young people from all over Europe we saw that there is a need to address those challenges. We wanted to address them by providing to young people education for democratic citizenship and human rights and to familiarise them with intercultural education, equality education, education for sustainable development and peace education (as stated in the Council of Europe Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education). After running consultations with our partners in the matter of the needs we decided to address with this project. We decided that approaching it from the narrative perspective will be very useful. The knowledge about the facts and even scientific consensus is very often not enough to pass a message - we spotted a need to address not the problem of what message to convey but how to pass it. The aim of the project was to equip 32 youth workers and young activists with competences to practise active citizenship by standing against human rights violations around them by deconstructing existing violent narratives and constructing peaceful alternative narratives with the use of visuals, artistic tools and innovative educational methods. We also specified the following objectives: - To get participants familiar with the concepts of human rights, mechanisms of human rights protection, peace and violence, active participation and citizenship, community building, discourse, alternative narratives and counter narratives; - To understand the importance of peaceful alternative narratives in the context of human rights and combating hate speech; - To map the realities in the participating countries on the existing violent narratives in the field of global inequalities, xenophobia and social injustice; - To gain the knowledge on how the violent narratives are constructed and the ability to use critical thinking to deconstruct them; - To develop the skills of participants in using nonviolent communication, emotional literacy and peace education as tool for building local communities and construction of peaceful alternative narratives; To exchange good practices and tools to address xenophobia, inequalities and lack of social justice such as: media literacy, storytelling, advocacy and conflict transformation. - To develop innovative education tools for youth workers by designing at least 4 guidelines on how to design and implement a local workshop for tackling xenophobia, inequalitie social injustice or other harmfull narratives and construct alternative narratives promoting culture of peace in the European communities; - To facilitate the process of planning and implementing at least 6 follow up activities where participants would act as peacebuilders and multipliers of the gained skills; - To establish cooperation with local stakeholders such as policy makers, schools and civil society organisations and gain their support in the process of implementing the follow up activities; - To build a community of international youth workers and supporting them organisations in the field of constructing peaceful alternative narratives and developing innovative tools in this field. We also wanted to ensure the spaces where young people could get connected with various local stakeholders and act together in shaping peaceful societies. Stakeholders such as policy makers, schools and various civil society organisations were seen as our allies in the development of peaceful narratives. There was, and still is, a need to keep engaging young people into addressing existing challenges to human rights and culture of peace.