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Youth Work 4 Peacebuilding

2022-3-NL02-KA153-YOU-0000964202022Mobility of youth workersfinalized
Countries: NL|ES|RO|CY|EL|TR|IT|BG · Grant: €21,996
Prevention of conflicts, post-conflict rehabilitationHuman rights and rule of law

Objectives

The main topics of the training were related to peace, non-violence, peaceful conflict management and transformation. The emphasis of the project was placed on the role of young people in transforming conflicts in a peaceful way, through the training of youth workers. According to the final evaluations of the participants, related to the educational objectives of the project, they gained new competencies and knowledge about conflict theory, conflict management, non-violence theory, information about various non-violence-based peace movements and campaigns, non-violence methods on conflict resolution, conflict resolution styles, concepts of peace and different approaches to establishing peace-peacebuilding, peacekeeping, peaceforcing, familiarization with different cases of conflicts from the participating countries, international NGOs and Movements for peace and non-violence. The project was implemented with the objective of addressing the rising trend of violence, conflict, and radicalization among young people in Europe, a situation exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, increased hate speech, and the refugee crisis. Key goals included: • To develop a set of knowledge, skills and competencies of youth workers in transforming conflicts and building peace; • To equip youth workers with an understanding of the concepts of nonviolence and human rights education that can be applied to their local communities to prevent conflict and violent radicalization among local youth; • To motivate participants to advocate/initiate campaigns at local, national and international levels and act as multipliers and ambassadors of peace; • To encourage cooperation between organizations for further actions on youth peacebuilding initiatives; In addition, the youth workers were introduced to many resources on the subject - books, films, online manuals, methodologies for working on the subject, new methods of non-formal education and others. Various methods of non-formal education were used to achieve the educational goals of the project - simulations, role-playing games, team building games, creative presentations, short films, discussions, work in small groups, etc. Based on the evaluations of the project during the mobility, daily reflections, mentoring meetings, trainer evaluation, team evaluation and final participant evaluation, we can conclude that the project deepened the participants' understanding of key concepts of conflict management and building peace and non-violent action within youth work, introducing them to concepts and approaches of non-violent action, conflict analysis methods. In addition, the project led to the improvement of the competences of youth workers (knowledge, skills) in working as multipliers and youth workers (knowledge, skills) in working as multipliers and peace-building activists using non-formal education/activities tools after the completion of the course in their local communities/.

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