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The Project
Empowering Youth in a World of Conflict: Innovative Educational Solutions for Peacebuilding and Dialogue
Nowadays, young people interact more with the media and have been exposed to news of violence, conflicts and wars around the world. Especially after the start of the war between Ukraine and Russia, young people have the perception that physical wars are still a reality in 2022. It is clear that young people in
Ukraine are experiencing the most psychological pain as a result of Russia’s military operation. This also means that any young person with access to the internet, computer, phone, television, radio or newspaper will be aware that there is a conflict going on and many of them will be beginning to understand
The impact it has on young people. Rather than keeping young people away from digital tools or avoiding their screen time, the most significant step in addressing these issues is to develop awareness and educate young people by creating innovative educational solutions in relation to peacebuilding, conflict resolution and maintaining environments of dialogue between different cultures.
Objectives
- Develop an innovative peace education toolkit to connect youth with different cultural backgrounds to enable them to build strong, resilient, respectful, and peaceful communities.
- Train, support and inspire youth workers to enact localised projects on peace education and dialogue between conflict groups of youths to promote inclusive societies and social cohesion.
- Develop, test, publish and disseminate a toolkit on peace education through digital storytelling by using virtual peacemakers platform.
- Provide young people with a digital environment where they can share their ideas and stories to sustain peace in the community.
- Promote European values that are transferable in their future education, employment and personal development.
- To tackle social exclusion and overcome societal conflicts through youth work.
- Promote quality standards in youth work by increasing youth organisations’ and local authorities’ expertise in quality non- formal education, the human rights approach, and project management.
Work Packages
Peacemakers Virtual Platform
– To develop, test, publish and disseminate toolkit on peace education through digital storytelling by using virtual peacemakers platform
– To provide young people digital environment that they can share their ideas and stories to sustain peace in community.
A.1. Create the structure of the Online Platform
A.2. Design the interface of the Online Platform
A.3. Upload the descriptions of the influencers/stakeholders
A.4. Upload the research data and NFE activities
A.5. Pilot phase of the platform
A.6. Creation of Videos (Digital Stories of young people)
A.7. Embedding English subtitles in the videos.
A.8. Upload the videos on the platform
A.9. Finalize the platform
A.10. Interim Meeting (online)
A.11. Joint Staff Training (LTTA – 5 days) Topic: Peace Education Training Through Digital Storytelling (Participants: 3
Youth workers per partner)
A.12. Final Meeting in Italy (2 staff per partner)
Peace Education Through A Digital Storytelling Guide
- RESEARCH: In order to conduct a comprehensive need analysis of peace and conflict Quantitative and Qualitative methods will be used.
- BEST PRACTICES: To understand the best practices for peace, partners will reach relevant stakeholders and influencers.
- NFL ACTIVITIES: PEDITORY toolkit will be developed as a tool for non-formal learning (NFL). Non-formal education is a planned learning process in which the learners take part intentionally and voluntarily. It is a participatory process, where the participants learn from their own experiences, and are not judged or graded, but are led through a process of self-reflection and consideration of how they want to use the results of their learning in their lives.
- DIGITAL STORYTELLING: This methodology will strongly increase the impact of PEDITORY objectives by encouraging youth to use digital tools and creativity.
A.1. Research on understanding conflict and peace situation (Quantitative Research – Survey)
A.2. Research on understanding conflict and peace situation (Qualitative Research Focus Group Interview)
A.3. Best Practices – National peacebuilding influencers/stakeholders
A.4. Drafting Digital Storytelling NFE Activities Format
A.5. Designing Digital Storytelling Activies to Teach Peace Education
A.6. Creation of Toolkit (Combine research data and NFE activities)
A.7. Translation of the Materials
A.8. Kick-off Meeting (2 staff per partner)
Dissemination And Promotion
– To create a Sustainability Plan, Eco-Guide and Digital Guide to sustain the project results in a green and digital way
– To implement dissemination activities (visual identity, creation of project brochure,
– To produce a Dissemination and Promotion plan (which contains social media and sharing plan) to promote PEDITORY at the regional, national, European, and international levels.
A.1. Designing Visual Identity
A.2. Creation of Project Brochure
A.3. Creation of Dissemination and Promotion Plan
A.4. Drafting Social Media Sharing Plan
A.5. Creation of Sustainability Plan, Eco-Guide and Digital Guide
A.6. Multiplier Events in all partner countries
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