P.A.C.E. - Peace and Conflict Education is a regional project implemented by Youth for Peace in cooperation with the Balkans Let's Get Up! Organisation from Serbia and Udehtim i Lire from Albania. The implementation of the project is supported by the Regional Youth Cooperation Office - RYCO and the European Union.

Objectives of the project:

  1. To build capacities of youth workers and CSOs in the field of peace building and reconciliation with emphasis on capacities to foster effective implementation of peace education contents and values
  2. To create favourable environment where youth from the three parties can gather and go through transformative experience of dialogue and understanding “other side”

The project will be implemented over a period of 7 months in which two trainings for trainers in the field of peace education will be organized in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as youth exchange in Albania. In addition, one of the outputs of the project, will be creation of a peace education manual for trainers with a special focus on the Western Balkan.

Youth exchange within P.A.C.E - Peace and Conflict Education held in Albania

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From 10th to 15th August 2021, Krujë (Albania) was a host of youth exchange within the P.A.C.E. - Peace and Conflict Education project. The youth exchange brought together 19 participants aged 18 to 25 from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia. The exchange was held at the Panorama Hotel and the organizer of the exchange was our partner organization Udhetim i Lire from Durres. During the 5 days of the exchange, participants had the opportunity to talk and learn about topics from the area of peace education. Some of the topics discussed were identity, prejudices, and stereotypes in the context of the Balkans, conflict management and resolution, confidence-building and reconciliation, gender and peace-building, the situation in the Western Balkans.

In addition to workshops, participants had the opportunity to visit Durres, tour the city with a local guide, spend time in the Youth Center where the premises of Udhetim i Lire are located, as well as be guests in the municipality of Durres, meet the mayor of Durres and Director of Youth, Culture, Religion and Sports Department within this municipality. During the day spent in Durres, participants also were creating messages related to Youth Day, which is celebrated on the 12th of August all over the world. Besides the regular daily program, participants attended evening sessions where they discussed the role of young people in promoting peace, presented their customs, traditions, and culture they come from, and made gifts that they later handed to each other.

P.A.C.E. - Peace and Conflict Education is a project implemented by Youth for Peace (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Udhetim i Lire (Albania) and Balkans Let's Get Up! (Serbia) with the support of the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) and the European Union.

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