Value the Difference – Preventing youth radicalisation - Volume I

As indicated by the European Agenda on Security (2015), the OSCE report “Working with youth and for youth” (2015) and the EU Radicalisation Awareness Network (2016), nowadays young people are increasingly confronted with the threat of radicalisation. The process of radicalisation affects the European youth equally encompassing adversatively political, social, or religious affiliations and leads to the same outcome: a militancy based on a radical ideology of hate and exclusion. This phenomenon originates mostly from political and/or religious organisations promoting radical value systems among young people, which are appealing inasmuch as they offer to paint the complexity of the world black and white. This training course seeks to address two main needs of youth work's stakeholders. Firstly, we open up a critical, structured reflection on youth workers' ways of working with youth taking into account the complexity of the youth radicalisation and the need of “non-formal educators” to be updated with innovative knowledge, skills and methodologies. Secondly, we critically analyse youth centres and youth organisations' capacities and strategies to cooperate with other public and private stakeholders within and beyond the youth sector on the issue of youth radicalisation. The outlined training course “Value the Difference – Preventing youth radicalisation: Volume I” offers youth workers and youth leaders from 9 Programme Countries a well-conceived learning experience, aimed to reflect upon theory and practice of non-formal education providers on the main topics above presented. Building on this project, a second and conclusive training course “Value the Difference – Preventing youth radicalisation: Volume II” will be held in Berlin in November 2017.