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Visuals for Demilitarisation

2024-1-CY01-KA153-YOU-0002425172024Mobility of youth workersongoing
Countries: CY|XK|BA|RO|EL|TR|PL · Grant: €29,118.14
Human rights and rule of lawPrevention of conflicts, post-conflict rehabilitationCreativity, arts and culture

Objectives

In recent times and experiences connected to the war in Ukraine, Palestine, and constant ongoing armed conflicts, we saw the importance of drawing attention to human rights and peace. We saw how powerful tools for that arts are. We are deeply concerned by the current situation and populist movements in society and politics which try to undermine European values of integration, solidarity and safety, using the tools of militarisation and violation of human rights.Therefore we have decided to create a project and space which will in a creative and transformative way approach issues of peace and demilitarisation. We aim to equip 25 young youth workers from diverse backgrounds working with visuals or willing to incorporate visual tools in their work with tools of peacebuilding, conflict transformation, Non Violent Communication, emotional literacy, media and visual literacy and visual communication. Additionally we aim to explore topics of identities, nationalism and demilitarisation to address European and regional tensions with non-violent means. Objectives To explore the concepts of active participation, positive and negative peace, peacebuilding and human rights in context of militarisation and map its possible violations; To understand the importance of visual arts and visual communication in the context of war, militarisation and human rights, and as a tool to combat hate speech against people of different ethnicity; To get familiar with the topic of militarisation and situation of young people in the partner countries and using this knowledge as a framework for peaceful transformative social actions; To empower youth workers working with visuals to take active role in addressing the mapped human rights violations related to militarisation and to stand up against them by using visual tools; To gather good practices in raising awareness on human rights issues in the context of demilitarisation with use of visual tools; To raise the employability of the participants with the competences of critical thinking, factfulness, digital investigation, deconstructing media manipulations, media and visual literacy and incorporating human rights approach in the creative processes and ethical approach to visual communication; To create space for participants to design and implement at least 5 visual follow-up actions oriented on the topics of demilitarisation organized in cooperation with the local civil society. To create a visual testimony of the military presence in the divided capital of Cyprus and create a digital gallery and physical exhibition in the Ledra Palace buffer zone.

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