With Beyond Conflict, we aim to strengthen the position and competences of youth workers so that they are better equipped to address the challenges of war, conflict, and polarization in their daily practice. Youth workers are often on the frontline of these issues: young people come to them with questions, emotions, and conflicting opinions. Practice shows that many youth workers feel vulnerable in guiding such conversations, and that there is a strong need for more methods and concrete tools. The main objectives of the project are therefore: - Strengthening knowledge and understanding: youth workers gain a deeper insight into peace, conflict, violence, nonviolence and the culture of peace, and learn how to translate this into their daily youth work. - Developing skills: participants receive training in non-violent communication, emotional literacy, active listening, and conflict transformation, enabling them to create safe spaces for dialogue and to guide young people in sensitive discussions. - Fostering self-reflection and confidence: youth workers explore their own attitudes, emotions and biases in order to stand stronger and more aware in their practice. - Exchange of methods and practices: each partner organisation and participant brings in their own experiences, tools and cases - Linking to human rights and peace: through external workshops and a study visit to The Hague, connections are made with international frameworks such as human rights and humanitarian law. - Embedding and sustainability: the training results in a recommendations document with a competence framework and follow-up activities in the local communities. From a youth work perspective, this is crucial because the themes of war and peace are no longer distant. Conflicts affect young people’s daily lives through media, family histories, and the presence of refugees and migrants. Youth workers are key actors in guiding these processes, and this project equips them with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to make young people stronger, more inclusive, and more resilient.