Project summary :
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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.
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