In the past few years we've educated youth workers to become more skilled in dealing with conflict, as this is an important skill for their work. While this is still true, the political climate of Europe has changed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This war is a wake-up call for this generation of youth in Europe that peace cannot be taken for granted and needs our constant effort. First of all, we'll need to actively build peace, by institutionalising it (e.g. creating a functioning democracy, good relationships with neighbouring countries, and social security to prevent poverty) and secondly by incorporating it into our culture, by promoting values like listening, empathy, trust etc. and skills to dialogue, reconcile and cooperate. For that to happen more people need to be educated on nonviolent conflict resolution and other peacebuilding skills and empowered to advocate these, which is what we aim to do with our project. This is the 'constructive' work to be done. There is also the 'obstructive work' to be done: building down the institutions of war and questioning the culture of violence. Solving conflicts with weapons is an obsolete idea, but many people continue to believe in it. Another issue we want to address is that war leads to more climate change and climate change to more wars. The military equipment needed for wars are very polluting. While the newest F35 fighter jet may have 'military advantages' over previous models, it also emits more CO2, for example. Not to speak of nuclear weapons that create nuclear waste that will last for thousands of years! Moreover, when war starts environmental issues move to the background and activists (of any type) experience heavy pressure. Climate change is also a threat to political stability and thus peace, as it causes extreme weather conditions that may lead to natural disasters, famine and drought and thereby to climate refugees. If the environment isn't prioritised over short-term economic gains like profits from fossil fuels and weapons, we will see many more disasters. Therefore, it's very important more people are aware of all of this and speak out against it. We've organised a training course for youth workers, to improve youth work on different levels: support youth workers to increase their capacity to respond to challenging situations, by developing skills for inner-peace, help them to integrate methods of inter-personal conflict management and peacebuilding in youth work, and provide tools that can be used in youth work to engage youth as active citizens in nonviolent awareness raising actions regarding war and climate change. The stages build on each other: inner peace forms the basis for youth workers in terms of emotional resilience that allows them to use their new skills to intervene in conflicts more effectively, which will create a fruitful peaceful atmosphere in which youth can work on social change. This way the training will contribute to the improvement of youth work, as youth workers gain crucial skills to do their work, improve group-dynamics and empower youth by enabling them to address two very important and interrelated issues: war and climate change. We hope this will contribute to opening up discussions in European societies - and particularly the region close to Ukraine impacted by the war - about nonviolent alternatives to war and nonviolent practices (for business and consumers) that are life-sustaining. The aim of the training course is thus to empower youth workers with peacebuilding skills and provide youth with tools to become active citizens speaking out against war and global warming. The objectives are: 1. Letting youth workers develop skills to work on peace on the personal level, to enable them to respond to the youth in a peaceful manner; 2. Letting youth workers develop skills to work on peace on the inter-personal level, to enable them to de-escalate and solve conflicts in their youth groups and support peaceful group dynamics; 3. Letting youth workers develop skills to work on peace on the social level, to enable them to implement nonviolent awareness raising actions regarding the interrelationship of war and climate change, and assist youth in becoming active citizens; 4. Enhancing the peaceful cooperation between European organisations, exchanging experiences and practices, so they can form a pacifist voice together for our future.