Seminarie in Armenië
17 jun 10

Seminarie in Armenië

“Role of youth work and intercultural learning in peace building”

Tsakhkadzor, Armenia, 20-26 September 2010

Do you want to discover new trends in the intercultural learning discourse and education? Do you want to understand the relationship among youth work, peace building and intercultural learning?

The European Confederation of Youth Clubs (ECYC) together with Federation of Youth Clubs from Armenia (FYCA) is organising a seminar aimed at building capacity of youth workers to address challenges created by existing realities of conflicts in Europe and its regions. The seminar is financed by the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe and will look at peace and coexistence not only in conflict regions, but also in communities and societies, were social and cultural unrest exists. It builds on the experiences of youth work, its role and tools in tackling the issues, and provide means for organising work and implementing projects targeted at wider peace building concept.

Background

The seminar is an idea developed by FYCA and the ECYC and agreed by the ECYC membership at the Executive Committee meeting in Slovenia. It is a follow-up and contribution to the work in promoting intercultural learning and dialogue and fits into a wider context of work to ensure solidarity, dialogue and peaceful coexistence in Europe. ECYC has had a number of initiatives tackling the issue through its educational activities such as the study session (in cooperation with the European Youth Centre Strasbourg of the Council of Europe) on the Role of youth work in addressing areas of significant conflict (Strasbourg, France 2004).

Youth work has always been one of the powerful tools in capacitating young people with competences needed to work and make their contribution to building peace in the societies. The need of young people to be involved in the wider peace building processes is evident and cannot but contribute to not only peaceful coexistence but also to building space for development, growth and prosperity.

We aim to:

  • analyse the potential of youth work to contribute to the peace and conflict resolution in the Caucasus region and across Europe;
  • exchange good practices regarding formats and models of co-existence and mutual understanding in multicultural, multi-religious and multinational environments, especially when it comes to the current challenges set by globalization and migration;
  • map the needed activities in the contribution to peace building and peaceful coexistence;
  • explore and promote the role of intercultural learning in peace building initiatives and through common actions;
  • promote youth peace initiatives and joint planned activities in the region.

Meer informatie? Inschrijven?

Lees het document "call for participants and application form Armenia seminar" aandachtig en schrijf in voor 5 juli 2010.