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The Youth Peace Camp engages young people and youth organisations
from conflict-affected regions in dialogue and conflict transformation activities
based on human rights education and intercultural learning during and after the
camp.
Objectives
• To develop awareness and basic competences (knowledge, skills and attitudes)
of participants in human rights education, conflict transformation, intercultural
learning and dialogue, including a critical understanding of personal and
collective identities and their role in conflicts.
• To enable participants to share personal experiences of conflict and violence and
coping strategies in a positive and safe atmosphere of living and learning together.
• To introduce and share existing youth work practices and experiences
of young people working on dialogue and conflict transformation in their home
communities.
• To motivate and support participants in their role as multipliers and peer leaders
in peace-building activities with young people encouraging them to implement
follow-up initiatives.
• To present the Council of Europe, in particular its youth sector and its efforts
towards strengthening youth work in the field of conflict transformation and
intercultural dialogue.
In 2016, the Youth Peace Camp paid a particular attention to the role of hate speech
in armed conflicts and made connections with the No Hate Speech Movement
campaign at European and national levels.
Kosovo*, participants coming from Albanian, Serbian and other backgrounds;
Ukraine, especially from border regions and from Luhansk and Donetsk;
The Russian Federation, especially young people directly affected by conflicts in Georgia and Ukraine;
South Caucasus, in particular from border regions and ethnic minorities.
In this regard, the approaches used
in the Youth Peace Camp 2016 included much room for self-reflection as participants were invited to get in touch with their life story, to explore what makes up their identity and worldview, and to consciously connect or reconnect with their body sensations, feelings and emotions. It is an emotional and necessary
process to accept to show and share vulnerability – “uncertainty, risk and emotional
exposure”6
– that the dialogue process requires. This dialogue process continuously developed throughout the week and went beyond the facilitated sessions as a lot of exchanges and learning happened during informal time. Simple acts of dignity – listening to other young people and acknowledging their presence, their experiences, and their suffering – can help them recover a self-worth that may have been lost and deal with trauma.
Human rights education and conflict transformation were at the core of the Youth Peace Camp 2016 programme. They allowed and nurtured the dialogue process, enabling participants to face each other with the reality of their lives but also build on it throughout the week. The Camp was not only meant to be a learning experience about and for intercultural dialogue, human rights and conflict transformation but also an experience of intercultural dialogue, human rights and conflict
transformation itself.
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