Welcome to #MakePeace Training Course
The Training course will take place in Paredes, from the 6th to the 12th of May 2018. Youth workers, leaders, volunteers and youth trainers and facilitators will take part in the training course. Partnership is composed of 6 Non-profit organizations, from: Spain, Italy, Portugal, Lithuania, Greece and Belgium.
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The project aims at tackling youth radicalization and extremism by strengthening the role and work of youth and civil society organizations, by equipping them with non formal and peace education methodologies and strategies.
MethodologyAll the Activity Program will be implemented through non-formal education and learning by doing methods. Participants will be provided with theoretical knowledge and get familiar with innovative tools, methodologies and strategic interventions.
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Raising awareness about extremists’ recruitment strategies to reach out and approach youth, online and personally;
Exploring Radicalization, De-radicalization and and Counter Radicalization concepts and strategies; Providing non formal education methodologies to build up personal Resilience and resistance to extremist’ propaganda ContextSociety should offer credible alternatives to violent extremism, including in terms of narratives, role models and opportunities for mobilization, such as democratic participation, civic engagement, access to health and social services and employment opportunities. Front-line actors, such as youth worker’s civil society organizations have a special role to play as they can formulate attractive strategic intervention addressed to youth, through non formal and informal educational approach and methodologies.
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Radicalization (or radicalisation) is a process by which an individual, or group comes to adopt increasingly extreme political, social, or religious ideals and aspirations that reject or undermine the status quo or undermine contemporary ideas and expressions of the nation. The outcomes of radicalization are shaped by the ideas of the society at large; for example, radicalism can originate from a broad social consensus against progressive changes in society or from a broad desire for change in society. Radicalization can be both violent and nonviolent, although most academic literature focuses on radicalization into violent extremism. There are multiple pathways that constitute the process of radicalization, which can be independent but are usually mutually reinforcing.
Radicalization that occurs across multiple reinforcing pathways greatly increases a group’s resilience and lethality. Furthermore, by compromising its ability to blend in with non-radical society and participate in a modern, national economy, radicalization serves as a kind of sociological trap that gives individuals no other place to go to satisfy their material and spiritual needs "