Trainer Profile: Nebojsa Djeric

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1. Training: Striving for Diversity – Fighting Intolerance: Mediation Training and Conflict Management Seminar (April 15th 2007 – April 21st 2007, Zielona Gora, Poland)

   Organised by:

   International Politics Working Group of AEGEE – Europe in cooperation for a period of 7 days.

   Description:

   In the past years people had to experience that also in Europe conflicts can escalate and that Human Rights are not equally treated in every country.
   The aim of this training was to bring together young Europeans with different perspectives on conflicts and to educate them in mediating conflicts in order to strengthen a “peace network” that crosses religious, ethnic, and geographic boundaries.
   
   Target group of this training was 25 young people, students and youth workers from regions with conflicts due to multiethnic, multicultural or multi – religious populations willing to contribute to conflict solution processes on their local and regional level and to be future peace – builders in Europe.
   Participants were from following countries: Poland, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Moldavia, Slovenia, Germany, Bulgaria, Albania, the Netherlands, Ukraine and Romania.
   
   For this training course were active four international trainers from Serbia, Poland, Italy and Belgium. Our main role was to closely follow and to facilitate processes in the group and to educate the participants to take over a moderating role in the solution process of ethnic, cultural and religious conflicts.
   
   The methodology that we used in this training course was combination of non-formal lectures, discussions, case work and communication tools developed by the AEGEE YnterAct project such as improvisation theatre, intercultural communication or lateral thinking.
   
   After seven days of this training course as a result we got educated participants who will take over a moderating role in the solution process of ethnic, cultural and religious conflicts.
   
   Participants were provided with a greater conceptual understanding of conflict, violence and peace, and the forces of conflict dynamics.
   We increased the capacity of youth organizations to engage with issues of global solidarity and the peaceful transformation of conflicts.
   We promoted inter-religious and intercultural dialogue among young people, from various perspectives, and to address the role of history/tradition, culture and religion in young people’s lives.
   We provided a range of practical skills – based training in the handling of conflict situations.
   We developed young people’s personal skills, knowledge and attitudes to deal with culture, tradition and religious diversity.
   We empowered young people to productive cooperation in the field of conflict prevention, conflict management and fostering peaceful dialogue: to support networking and co-operation among youth organizations and other institutions and individuals (trainers, multipliers, youth leaders) active in the field of human rights education.
   We promoted values of mutual respect and understanding between different cultures, fight against racism and xenophobia through processes of intercultural learning amongst young people.
   

   Reference person:

   Lorenzo Nava = co-trainer (lorenzo.nava@libero.it, +390639732792)

2. Training: Youth Information and Youth Policy Seminar (1st - 6th of December 2009, Rotterdam, Netherlands)

   Organised by:

   European Youth Information and Counselling Agency (ERYICA) for a period of 5 days.

   Description:

   Purpose of this international seminar was to bring existing and perspective members of ERYICA together to share experience and ideas about:
   
   - developing good quality youth information services
   - how youth information can contribute to effective youth policy
   - how youth policy can support effective youth information
   
   Contribute to developing a good practice guide on:
   - Peer to peer youth information
   - Reaching out to hard to reach young people
   - Using youth information to support effective youth participation
   
   Contribute to finalizing Starters Kit (use of it)
   
   This Youth Policy and Youth Information seminar was for practitioners who:
   - work in youth information services and who are familiar with national policy and structures for supporting youth information
   - have little or no experience of international work on youth information structures
   - are enthusiastic about learning from international partners and prepared to present their own national experience
   - want to contribute to developing better youth information services
   
   Target group of this seminar were young people and adults aged 18+ who wanted to contribute to developing better youth information services.
   
   The participants were from Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Macedonia, Scotland, Ukraine, San Marino, Turkey, Armenia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Belarus, Finland, Austria, Russia, Poland, Czech Republic and France. Total number of participants was 22.
   
   My colleague Bob Forsyth and me worked as trainers for these five days of seminar. Our main role was to closely follow and facilitate processes in the group.
   During these five days of seminar we used non formal way of learning, different workshops including exercises, team building games, role plays, inputs, presentations, discussions and NGO fair of partner promoters.
   

   Reference person:

   Bob Forsyth = co-trainer (bob@bobforsyth.co.uk, +44 77 85 257 500)

3. Training: Made in Europe – Meet in SEE! Partnership Building Activity (PBA) for future cooperation within the Youth in Action Programme (16 – 22 of February 2009, Prijedor, Bosnia & Herzegovina)

   Organised by:

   Udruzenje Gradjana Mreza for a period of 5 days.

   Description:

   Partnership Building Activity (PBA) for future cooperation within the Youth in Action Programme realized in close cooperation between Udruzenje Gradjana Mreza and its international partner promoters brought together representatives from programme and partner countries from SEE to create and build stable partnerships for common and future cooperation in the frame of Youth in Action (Youth Exchanges, Training and Networking activities within Action 3.1).
   The main aim of PBA was to motivate and educate young people from all over Europe to realize own cooperation and activities on international and intercultural level within Youth in Action Programme. Trainers team have presented to participants four the main priorities in Youth in Action Programme as a cultural diversity, involvement of young people with fewer opportunity, active participation of young people and European citizenship.
   The objectives of PBA were:
   - to provide info about Youth in Action Programme
   - to get to know with possibilities of cooperation between programme and partner countries from SEE within Action 3.1
   - to communicate, to share and to develop the necessary knowledge, skills and attitude to organize intercultural youth project
   - to bring together people working with young people in order to create new project ideas within Action 3.1
   For this PBA were active two international trainers from Serbia and Germany. Our main role was to help participants to make contacts and to work on developing their ideas for the future cooperation.
   The methods of PBA were different workshops including exercises, simulations, role plays, inputs, presentations and discussions, NGO fair of partner promoters, best practice projects and creating the concrete project ideas, team building games and excursion.
   Target groups of this PBA were youth workers, youth leaders and people that are actively involved in youth work activities. The participants were from Serbia, Italy, Holland, Romania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Mazedonia, Spain, Portugal and Czech Republic. In total we had group of 19 participants.
   After five working days of this PBA as a result we got developed some ideas and prepared project proposals with concrete topics that will participants apply for the next deadline in Youth in Action Programme.
   

   Reference person:

   Verena Giessler = co-trainer (verena.giessler@gmx.de, +4917681144067)