The Peace Action Training and Research Institute of Romania* is organising the Global Youth Rising 2016 summer camp for dedicated, passionate, motivated youth activists and peacebuilders from across the globe come together to learn, share, build and exchange their experiences from their movements and organizations.
The summer camp will include a variety of workshops and training sessions on key topics in the field, as well as seminars, film showings, discussions, exchanges, planning spaces, as well as the chance to hike and explore the surrounding countryside.
Key topics will include:
- Psychological well-being and healing yourself – from inner peace to outer peace
- Tackling discrimination, violent extremism, and radicalisation
- Working with trauma (especially for refugees and asylum seekers)
- Key peacebuilding skills, e.g. using digital media, fundraising, community participation
- Creating a global movement, especially bringing together youth from Europe with those from Syria, Yemen, Libya and Iraq
- Environmental sustainability as a key to peace
- Innovative approaches to peace – e.g. theatre and sports
Please click here for more information and here to apply.
*The Peace Action Training and Research Institute of Romania is a member of EPLO member organisation the European Network for Civil Peace Services.