Youth4Peace Training Toolkit

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➤ This toolkit gives you tips to develop your own training on peacebuilding, conflict transformation, and creating peaceful narratives.
➤ It was requested by young peacebuilders from the UNOY network, who have actively contributed their ideas and tested the toolkit.
➤ It challenges you to ‘review’ your own values of peacebuilding and nonviolence as a current or future trainer.

Why this toolkit?

Hello! Welcome to the UNOY Peacebuilders’ Youth4Peace Training Toolkit that will guide you through
the concepts and practice of delivering educational activities on conflict transformation, peacebuilding, and the creation of peaceful narratives.

This toolkit has been developed for beginners and intermediate youth trainers and educators in the field of peacebuilding and we hope that this is going to be a useful tool for you to start or further implement educational programmes on peace and transforming conflicts and narratives targeting youth through non-formal education.

By making this toolkit accessible online, we hope to support the shift in narratives by equipping young people with basic understanding of core concepts, matched with relevant and practical non-formal education methods to promote the creation of an enabling environment for peace.

What is in this toolkit?

Part 1: Understanding and applying the key concepts

Explanations of the basic concepts around conflict, violence, peace, transforming narratives, and youth and peace.

part 2: designing and implementing your activity

Step-by-step information on how to design an educational programme and how to practically prepare, plan, and implement your training.

part 3: principles and values for training in peacebuilding

Key values and principles to be aware of when training in peacebuilding, as well as practical tips on how to embrace and promote values as a trainer in peace, ensure the principles of sustainability, gender and inclusion, and manage conflicts and group dynamics.

part 4: in practice—programme and session outlines

Actual examples of training modules and specific session outlines that are ready for you to review, adapt, and use.

Who made this?
Team
Main author: Romeral Ortiz Quintilla
Editor: Meghann Villanueva
Coordinator: Imre Veeneman
Proofreaders: Jake Hansen-Shearer & Clara Pietrek
Graphic Design: Bart Behiels, bartbehiels.be
Contributors
Many UNOY members, youth trainers, and experts from all over the world who tested the toolkit, reviewed it, and provided additional ideas and activities!

Youth4Peace Training Toolkit (2733 downloads)