“Walking the path of reconciliation - empowering communities for a peaceful society” comes as a proposal of the 6 partners, with a primary goal: to take action and respond to young people’s needs in reconciliation and fight agains hate speech. What we propose through this project is to invest in the capacity building of the civil society organisations, equip them with tools and know-how and support them to transfer the skills to the local communities and too involve all the stakeholder in the fights against hate speech, hatred or violence as a derivate. The project is composed of 2 working packages: 1: capacity building with 7sub activities and 2) Mobilities with 4 activitiesAll too be implemented with an tailor made pedagogical approach, with the use of non formal education and learner centered approach by highly experienced partners in the filed of youth work and intercultural learning; human rights and anti discrimination BUT, wit a clear need to gather efforts and gain expertise in reconciliation and no hate speech rhetorics. Aim: This project aims to build the competences of youth workers, teachers, young people and community youth leaders in the Western Balkans, to address and work with reconciliation, countering hate speech and promoting peacebuilding. Peacebuilding cannot be reached if we don’t all work together, therefore this project proposes a thorough approach in involving different stakeholders of the community and equipping them with skills and expertise how to fight these negative phenomena in their environment. Objectives: • Promote reconciliation among communities with empowering young people and youth leaders with knowledge, skills and attitudes to act as advocates for peacebuilding • Strengthen human rights based narratives in society that effectively counter stereotypes justifying discrimination and hate speech in communities; • Increase the involvement and action in solidarity of vulnerable groups affected by discrimination, racism and hate speech;• Develop expertise by creating a network of association that will work to analyse and respond to violations of human rights, discrimination and conflictual situation in grassroots level • Strengthen cooperation at regional level to respond quickly to incidents that trigger regional or European wide surges of hate and discrimination and promote human rights, intercultural sensitivity, reconciliation and peacebuilding.• Produce and promote concrete educational tools about reconciliation and addressing hate among young people, to be used by teachers and other community leaders • Increase involvement and mobility of vulnerable groups in national and regional cooperation activities • Promote Erasmus+ as a powerful programme to change young people’s life and bring about change and opennessThe need to have youth workers trained and skilled on reconciliation and resilience towards hate speech is a basic precondition to mainstream respect for human right.
Promote reconciliation among communities with empowering young people and youth leaders with knowledge, skills and attitudes to act as advocates for peacebuilding Strengthen human rights-based narratives in society that effectively counter stereotypes justifying discrimination and hate speech in communities; Produce and promote concrete educational tools about reconciliation and addressing hate among young people, to be used by teachers and other community leaders;
Walk On project aimed to build the competences of youth workers, teachers, young people and community youth leaders in the Western Balkans, to address and work with reconciliation, countering hate speech and promoting peace building. The projects succeed to establish a successful practice and with positive regards to establish a network of association in the WB ad EU who are committed into promoting reconciliation sharing know how and fighting hate speech a different level.
<< Background >> Walk On project aimed to build the competences of youth workers, teachers, young people and community youth leaders in the Western Balkans, to address and work with reconciliation, countering hate speech and promoting peace building. The projects succeed to establish a successful practice and with positive regards to establish a network of association in the WB ad EU who are committed into promoting reconciliation sharing know how and fighting hate speech a different level. << Objectives >> Promote reconciliation among communities with empowering young people and youth leaders with knowledge, skills and attitudes to act as advocates for peacebuilding Strengthen human rights-based narratives in society that effectively counter stereotypes justifying discrimination and hate speech in communities; Produce and promote concrete educational tools about reconciliation and addressing hate among young people, to be used by teachers and other community leaders; << Implementation >> Implementation of the project was done during the time of pandemic, but through all the challenges, the project was implemented successfully through all its phases. The project outcomes were pursued through the specific project activities which were undertaken by including important stakeholders, training experts, youth workers, teachers and young people through local workshops, trainings, information sessions, media channels, partnership building activities and researches. << Results >> 127 mobility participants learned about peace and reconciliation, hate speech and developed competencies on ICD and follow-up on various project related workshops. 505 Young people, YW participated in the local level from all partners of the consortium where they developed their skills, increased knowledge on the project topic and developed their competencies, learned about the Erasmus plus program as a life-changing program and expand their network of work for further and future collaborations