TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
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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.
Specific objectives of the camp include:
- Developing 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
- Enabling participants to share personal experiences of conflict and violence and
coping strategies in a positive and safe atmosphere of living and learning together
- Introducing and sharing existing youth work practices and experiences of young
people working on dialogue and conflict transformation in their home communities
- Motivating and supporting participants in their role as multipliers and peer leaders in
peace-building activities with young people encouraging them to implement followup initiatives
- Presenting 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.
Participants came from the following communities: Cyprus (Greek Cypriots and Turkish
Cypriots), Kosovo, Serbia, South Caucasus region and Ukraine (in particular the Luhansk and
Donetsk regions).
In this regard, the approaches used
in the Youth Peace Camp 2017 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 2017 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.
https://rm.coe.int/final-report-youth-peace-camp-2017/16807b714a
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