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Read Between the Lines! Media Education, Freedom of Expression and Youth Participation - Prep call

Call for Members of Prep Team

10th January 2012

Cooperation and Development Network Eastern Europe (www.cdnee.org) is announcing a call for participants of the seminar "Read Between the Lines! Media Education, Freedom of Expression and Youth Participation". This project will take place from 22nd to 29th April in Turkey and is so far financially supported by the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe and Green Forum, Sweden. The call is open for applicants from any Council of Europe member state, Belarus or Kazakhstan.

DEADLINE for submitting applications to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it is Tuesday 31st January 2012. A more detailed call, including a summary of the topics and aims of the project can downloaded on the project page, together with the application form.

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Read Between the Lines! Media Education, Freedom of Expression and Youth Participation

Read Between The Lines!

Media Education, Freedom of Expression and Youth Participation

CDN Seminar 2012

22nd to 29th April 2012, Turkey

Project information

Calls, applications

Project summary

This seminar will aim to raise greater awareness and a better understanding of issues related to freedom of expression, transparency, democracy, pluralism and youth participation, in today's diverse European societies. It will promote youth participation and critical reflection on the media discourses vis-à-vis existing social realities and the everyday life of young people and their communities.

Aims

to improve access of youth to the public space and increase possibilities of young people in shaping their societies
to reinforce the respect and awareness of human rights as a prerequisite for participatory, transparent and pluralist democracy
to halt the propagation of stereotypes and other public discourses that stigmatise and marginalise/exclude certain social groups

Objectives

to examine what freedom of expression is and why it is important
to consolidate freedom of expression as a fundamental human right for a participatory, transparent and pluralist democracy
to raise awareness about relevant legal frameworks, such as the extent and limits of Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights
to empower youth to actively ensure that no one is deprived of the right to free speech
to provide tools for youth to critically analyze information flow and media in its various forms
to identify what kinds of values are spread in the media, such as gender, family, cultural, ethnic, religious, economic and political values, and who has an interest in spreading those values
to explore the relationship between civil society, the private sector, state actors and media
to stress the importance of youth participation in public discussions and different phases of decision-making processes, such as elections
to encourage youth to challenge dominant narratives in creative and constructive ways

Methodology and planning

We will combine principles and methodologies of non-formal education in the youth field, human rights education, and education to democratic citizenship, intercultural learning, and media education. In practice, this means lectures, workshops, discussion groups, panel debates, educational games, role play, and other interactive and reflection-provoking methods. We want participants to be inspired, to explore new perspectives, and to experience and practice what we are learning. We will put focus on personal development, learning in groups, and interactive, participatory and experimential learning.

Documents

Call for prep team

Application form for prep team members

Peace, Reconciliation, Diversity: A Youth Path - report page

II. Project description
Title of the meeting/project : (maximum 30 words)	Peace, Reconciliation, Diversity: a Youth path
Where will the meeting be held (venue, places) :	City: Yerevan - Country: Armenia
When was the meeting held (starting and end dates): (Date format: dd/mm/yyyy. Example: 31/12/2006)	From: 28/03/2011 - To: 03/04/2011
Number of working days:	6
Working languages:	English
How do you describe the project? (max. 2 choices):	Seminar Educational project
Your project was based on :	Non-formal education
Geographical dimension of the project :	International/European
Project summary : (maximum 500 words)	Seminar aimed to examine concept of peace, different ways of perception of peace and its correlations with conflicts and violence, on different level. Explore horizontal differentiation of peace levels. Discuss different types of peace (Confront idea of peace itself and peace as absence of conflict). Explore different notions of conflict and violence, levels of constructiveness and destructiveness and possibilities for peace building to start at the certain points. Secondly we wanted to explore tools for maintain and achieving peace, in order to understand, question, evaluate and criticize this processes. Raise knowledge about concrete institutional and civil society tools. Identify and analyze role of different public discourses such as mass media, internet, education (academia, school books), upbringing, religion in shaping people perception of achieving and maintain peace. Explore and challenge patterns of social explanations. Discuss European and global institutions that are participating in peace processes and underline values behind. (CoE, UN, EU, OSCE). Discuss used institutional tools, reasons why being used, failed and consequences. Deconstruct and analyze dynamics of various social hierarchies and power relations in order to find space for civil society to support and advocate to peace processes.. Analyze position, visibility, importance and strength of civil society in peace processes. Define and explore tools and their effectiveness, which civil society is using in this. Raise awareness and incite youth to take actions and ensure impact on decision making processes towards peaceful society. We want to present constructive and contrapoductive or non productive experiences of involvement of youth organizations and young people in peace processes, sometimes being manipulated and used for different cause. Discuss and develop efficient and creative tools for confronting dominant discourses in order to increase youth involvement in peace processes. Foster communication among participants organizations and improve their cooperation with other civil society organizations on local, regional and international level that are tackling peace issues. We aimed to gather young people active in their societies and on international level, that have been connected to topic either trough their education, organizational work or cultural background. With diversity in experience and profile of participants we wanted to increase diversity of views, knowledge and inputs, in order to higher and quantity and quality of examples, conclusions, proposals and possibilities for follow up. Methodology was relying on methods and activities of non formal education, open and inclusive in approach. We used methods like theater, world café, role plays in order to make participants feel more relaxed and create a productive group atmosphere and relations, but also to give input on issues and enable constructive exchange of experience and strand points. Complete agenda is attached.