RESOLVE: New Youth Order Online Dialogue Activity

As a RESOLVE programme, this Online Dialogue Activity will mobilise a range of reconciliation and peacebuilding techniques to achieve this including: People to people dialogue; Debate for Peace; Simulation games; Mediation techniques and Effective communication & advocacy.

Objectives:

• To encourage youth leaders engagement with decision-makers in dialogue sessions to discuss the future of young people; address social intolerance and community xenophobia;
• To capture youth workers views on key socio-economic-political issues in our world today causing conflict;
• To analyse Social Action, civic responsibility and citizenship promotion in the work with youth
• To receive inputs from youth worker on encouraging youth participation in the RESOLVE: Network – specifically in its governance, chairing of meetings and leading a peace network;

SCHEDULE

We will work online for 2 weeks. Each week we will have 3 online meetings, of approx. 3 hours each. Please find the detailed plan below.

Week 1 (10th August – 14th August) – second part of the day

• Becoming a changemaker - how to take action and become a social entrepreneur;
• Setting goals and achieving dreams, despite adversity;
• Empathy Storytelling - youth from opposite sides of a conflict share their stories and bond in the process.

Week 2 (17th August – 21st August) – second part of the day

• Reconciliation Simulation games with youth leaders representing different democratic institutions and replicating the roles of decision-makers;
• A Digital Talk on stereotype and prejudice followed by a workshop where this topic will be discussed in-depth;
• RESOLVE Network Meeting with former 'Resolvers' coming from 13 different countries followed by the workshop Motive in Action – reflecting on your personal motivation style.

Your full participation and commitment during all the activities is required to take part in the workshop. We encourage participants to ensure they have a working camera and microphone before participating.

If you are coming from the UK, you may be selected to join our Dialogue Activity in Sweden (currently scheduled for December 2020). For participants from Sweden, Azerbaijan and Bosnia and Herzegovina, you may be selected to join our Dialogue Activity in London (currently scheduled for November 2020).

TARGET GROUP

This Online Dialogue Activity is for young youth leaders, youth workers, team leaders etc, but will be open for everyone as it is an online event, everyone who is affected by conflict and interested in becoming a future leader. In particular, we welcome participants from more diverse backgrounds to participate.

The course is open to participants from the UK, Sweden, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Azerbaijan, but as this activity is Online we will also review applications from other Erasmus+ Programme and Partner countries.

Working language: English.

Application deadline: July, 31st

More information is available on the project’s website: https://www.asfar.org.uk/erasmus/erasmus-resolve-new-youth-order/