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What YOUth believe? Interreligious Dialogue in Practice to prevent young people from extremism

2022-3-ES02-KA153-YOU-0000963932022Mobility of youth workersongoing
Countries: ES|TN|JO|TR|FI|BE|MK|FR|IT|DE|MA · Grant: €19,268
Human rights and rule of lawYouth policy developmentReaching the policy level/dialogue with decision makers

Objectives

In the past years we have heard a lot of news about different terrorist attacks throughout the whole Europe and together with big amounts of muslim refugees fleeing to Europe, it only increases radicalisation of young people. At the time of rising concerns in Europe over radicalisation and violent extremism, the role of education and intercultural and interreligious dialogue plays a big role in promoting respect for diversity which will lead to peaceful and respectful coexistence. The media also play an important role in manipulation of public opinion, so one of the aims of this project is to increase the media literacy of participants and through them and their wider surroundings, learn to work with the media, detect manipulation content, fake news and hoaxes.We believe that such Training Course will provide positive experiences of intercultural encounters and engagements which could help prevent radicalisation and promote the understanding, cooperation and mutual respect needed for us to live together.We are witnessing many accelerating processes like global economic crisis, pressure of demographic movements, wars, insecurity, cyber-attacks among youth, etc. The activity of the training course will be held in Bilbao from March 05 to 9, 2023. It will have the participation of 11 organizations from different European countries and partners in North Africa in the Middle East,Balkans, and a total of 31 youth workers who work and collaborate in sensitive environments, four expert trainers and facilitators. The Training Course was based on non-formal learning methods and principles, intercultural dialogue and communication in including group discussions, interactive presentations, participant’s lead workshops, team work,etc. Youthpass tool was used throughout the project to help young people reflect regularly on their personal learning journeys and become more aware of their own learning. The methodology of the project stimulated active participation and sense of initiative and involvement of the learners. It created a learning space with better self-awareness and awareness of the needs and goals of the groups of young people they work with to enhance the results of the learning process and give birth to high quality projects led by the participants in the future. Objectives: Create skills and knowledge for participants and develop activities to become more aware of the processes and risks that lead to extremism and extremism and enable them to exchange best practices and methods to engage in efforts to combat extremism and deradicalization at the individual and collective levels within their local communities in general and among refugees and migrants in particular. and acceptance of a multicultural society, The programme will contribute to achieving the following SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:: - • To promote knowledge about different religions and cultures • To empower youth workers and active volunteers with skills, knowledge and necessarycompetences through the sensitive use of media, Nonviolent Communication & lived Interfaith Harmony • To promote peace, prevent radicalization and hate speeches • To raise awareness on vulnerable groups to radicalization within our societies and to allow participants to discover the different situations of other participating countries • To promote tolerance and diversity towards other religions within local and international voluntary and youth projects by creating videos, workshops, interviews etc. • Develop solidarity and tolerance among young people, at local and international level and fight against stereotypes and prejudices and Promote mutual understanding between young people from different countries and different religions in the Euro-Mediterranean area. • To help young people develop their own initiatives • To give youth organisations methods on how to prevent youth from radicalization within their existing projects • to get inspired by best practice examples to enable young people to discover the origins and mechanism of racism, intolerance, xenophobia

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