"Essentials - a training course on fundamental tools for peacebuilding"

"Essentials - a training course on fundamental tools for peacebuilding" is a training developed by Peace Up! together with the Youth Peace Ambassadors Network and our partners. It aims to bring together youth workers, educators, trainers, youth leaders and activists who want to deepen their understanding of peacebuilding and conflict transformation.

GENERAL INFORMATION
�� Where: Pullach, Munich, Germany (Youth Hostel Burg Schwaneck)

��️ When: 21-27 February 2027

�� Online meetings: One before and one after the training

�� For 24 participants based in: Germany, Poland, Spain, Italy and France

⏳ Application deadline: 02.12.2026.

AIM & OBJECTIVES

Our aim is to empower 24 youth workers, leaders, activists, and trainers with the competencies needed to foster peace at personal, interpersonal, and community levels and become peace multipliers capable of spreading a culture of peace from the grassroots level.

Objectives of our training are:

To explore key concepts such as conflict, violence, peace, peacebuilding, peace education and conflict transformation.

To deepen participants’ understanding of peacebuilding and conflict transformation both in theory and practice.

To identify and apply peacebuilding tools at the personal, interpersonal, and community levels.

To develop skills for analysing and managing personal and interpersonal conflicts through tools such as the conflict analysis tree, emotional literacy, and the vocabulary of feelings and needs.

To acquire tools for analysing communal conflicts, including stakeholder mapping and the wheel of conflict analysis;

To enhance competencies in addressing personal and interpersonal conflicts using empathy, nonviolent communication, and dialogue.

To develop the capacity to address communal conflicts through reconciliation strategies, intercultural communication, and facilitating dialogue in politically sensitive contexts.

To gain inspiration from powerful peacebuilding stories and learn how to apply lessons from successful interventions.

To design at least 5 follow-up interventions in mapped local conflicts.

TARGET GROUP
Who is this training for?

We are looking for people who work with young people and want to bring peacebuilding into their practice. You might be a youth worker, trainer, educator, facilitator, activist, or a youth leader involved in an organisation or informal group.

This training could be for you if you are:

A youth worker or youth leader involved in local activities within one of our partner organisations;

A youth worker curious to explore peacebuilding at the personal, interpersonal and community levels;

A trainer or educator working in non-formal education, particularly with youth organisations, associations or NGOs focused on peace and human rights;

A youth leader active at the local, regional or national level within a youth organisation or informal group;

A youth worker looking to strengthen your skills in peacebuilding and conflict transformation and bring new approaches into your practice;

Also, you:

Are interested in peacebuilding, human rights and nonviolent conflict transformation.

Want to explore conflicts at personal, interpersonal and community levels.

Are willing to reflect on your own approaches, share your experiences and learn from others.

Have opportunities to use what you learn in your organisation, youth group or local community.

Can participate in the full training and both online meetings.

Should be living in Germany, Poland, Spain, Italy or France and able to participate in English.
 

The training is primarily aimed at people aged 18–35, but youth workers above this age range are also welcome to apply.

We especially welcome applications from people who face barriers to accessing international learning opportunities. You can share any access or support needs in your application so we can discuss how to support your participation.

METHODOLOGY

How will we work?

The training courses will be based on the principles of non-formal education.

We will implement the basic elements of the non-formal education, such as the education being voluntary, organised with educational objectives, participatory and learner-centred, about learning life skills and preparing for active citizenship, based on involving both individual and group learning with a collective approach, holistic and process-oriented, as well as based on experience and action (we will plan the follow-up activities) and starts from the needs of the participants. We will use working methods, such as working in small groups, role plays, buzz groups, energisers, presentations and more of participatory activities.

Basically is a peer-to-peer (you teach & learn from others) approach :)

More information can be found on: https://youthpeaceambassadors.medium.com/call-for-participants-essentials-5130dbcac5cd