Youth Peace Ambassadors: Human Dignity and Peace Building by Young People
The Youth Peace Ambassadors is a project of the Council of Europe’s Directorate of Youth and Sport promoting the role of young people in peace-building activities that contribute to living together in dignity and dialogue. The projects is centred on a network of young people from all member states of the Council of Europe who, upon receiving training at the European Youth Centres, will promote and apply the values of the Council of Europe in conflict-affected areas and communities.
The project is the result of a needs assessment done by European youth organisations and builds up on the particular contribution and perspective that youth work and youth policy can bring to peace-building processes in Europe, especially through its preventive and educational nature.
The Youth Ambassadors for Peace project was proposed by the Advisory Council on Youth and endorsed by the Joint Council on Youth of the Council of Europe
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The first group of future youth peace ambassadors will gather at the European Youth Centre in Strasbourg from 3 to 10 April, for a training session on human rights in conflict-affected communities. The group is composed of 25 young people aged 18 to 26 from 16 member states.
The seminar will be opened by Ms Antonia Wulff – the Chair of the Joint Council of Youth and Mr Ralf-René Weingärtner, the Director of Youth and Sport. The programme of seminar will count also on inputs from experts from Human Rights and Legal Affairs, the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights, the Parliamentary Assembly and the European Court of Human Rights.
Participants will also undergo training sessions in which these topics will be discussed, will also develop an intercultural understanding of conflict affecting their communities and will start preparing follow-up initiatives to carry out in their communities and in the associations they represent in the project.
This is the first seminar out of three to be attended by the future youth ambassadors from 2011 through 2012. The network of ambassadors will be launched at a meeting with the Parliamentary Assembly in Autumn 2012.
Call and presentation for Youth Peace Ambassadors (call closed on 3rd April 2011)
Group A - Programme
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