Conflicts? Not a chance! - Training Course on conflict management

This training course aims to provide youth workers with different tools for empowering young people both in European Union and Neighboring partner countries (SEE, EECA and Mediterranean) in order to take active role in settling conflicts and tensions between each other on local but also on international level, with particular aspect on young people affected by the frozen conflicts in SEE, EECA and Mediterranean region.

The training course deals with conflict and conflict management in general terms to provide basic education on roots of conflicts and conflict management strategies. A second major element of the training course with is the role that young people can take in conflict resolution and their function on local level.

Objectives:

- To study conflict transformation and resolution;

- To share our experience of conflict management;

- To stress importance of youth participation on conflict resolution and reconciliation;

- To promote Youth in Action programme;

- To promote networking among participants and create common strategy for future cooperation.

The training course will be held on 1-7 July 2011 in Strumica where 26 participants from Germany, Italy, Czech republic, Portugal, Slovenia, Lithuania, Romania, Poland, Israel, Georgia, Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo and Macedonia will take part.

The project is financed by European Commission through Youth in Action programme.