Youth Ambassadors program zasniva se na principu individualnog pristupa učesnicima, gdje se u centar stavlja mlada osoba koja uči te se tempo i način rada prilagođava svakom pojedinom učesniku. Ovaj program okuplja 10 mladih ljudi od 18 do 23 godine, te isto toliko mentora, iskusnijih u polju rada sa mladima, aktivizmu mladih te angažmanu u civilnom društvu.

Program se sastoji od niza zajedničkih susreta mentora i ambasadora, koji rade zajedno na temama bitnim za razvoj mladih osoba, kako bi se aktivno uključili u civilno društvo i postali ambasadori novih ideja i promjena u svojim zajednicama iz kojih dolaze. Drugi dio programa odnosi se na pojedinačne susrete mentora sa svojim ambasadorima, gdje se program oblikuje i približava obrazovnim potrebama mlade osobe, njenom stilu i načinu učenja i interesovanjima.

Konačno program cilja da od ovih 10 mladih izgradi tim, koji će na kraju svog jednogodišnjeg treninga, kroz zajedničke i individualne susrete, iznijeti jedan zajednički projekat koji će biti usmjeren na pitanje i problem koji su zajedno identifikovali u bh.društvu, a čijem rješavanju mogu svojim znanjem, vještinama i akcijama doprinijeti. Ovaj program Youth for Peace implementira uz podršku i partnerstvo United Religions Intiative (URI).

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Our project Youth Ambassadors is slowly entering in its final phase. After several months of working and learning together ambassadors, with their mentors, gathered in Fojnica, from October 21st until October 23rd. They gathered in order to use their previous knowledge and experiences to design a series of activities to start and enrich their social engagament and to become more active in BiH society. Ambassadors’ team decided to direct their activities towards raising awareness of young people about dangers of stereotypes and prejudices and negative consequences that they bring. Activities will have cultural and educational character, and they will be realized in offline and online world. Mentorship of Youth for Peace members will be crucial in this phase, to ensure needed support to their ambassadors.

This time, the gathering of ambassadors and mentors was enriched by the presence of Matthew Youde, Associate Director of Global Programs for Youth Leadership Development within URI, who shared his experiences and talked about Youth Ambassadors Programs that are implemented in other countries of the world, and about URI ideas of promotion and encouragement of young leaders. These experiences and advices were useful both for mentors and ambassadors, so the project got additional dimension and its global position like one of the links in the chain of successful young people.

URI YA 3 1From April 21st until April 24th in the relaxing atmosphere of mountain Trebević youth ambassadors were gathered on 4-day-long training. After two less formal meetings in February and March of this year, where they worked on meeting each other and getting closer, this time training had full time agenda. The content of training was combination of theoretical lectures and interactive exercises for participants. Mentors and ambassadors, with joint forces, were solving different problems and by using method „learning by doing“ they were improving their knowledge.

The topic of the training was non-violence, so they worked on getting the know, exercising and improving necessary tools for non-violence acting. The aim is for young people to improve their knowledge and to become quality young participants of civil society and strong advocates of non-violent problem solving. Participants had the opportunity to talk about topics they like to discuss about, but also about more difficult, more complicated and more sensitive topics and to exchange disagreement with their colleagues in safe team environment, using assertive way of talking by respecting each other. Building personal identity, respecting differences and awareness about own actions is precondition for quality communication in the society, especially among colleagues in NGO sector.

The end of this training represents the beginning of mentorship, where each ambassador got his/her mentor, more experienced colleague for Youth for Peace, who will work in the following six months, with him/her through on individual basis, but in the team as well. The final aim is the implementation of successful project as well as 11 empowered individuals, who will through Youth for Peace, either on other ways, help in building BH society.

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After successful realization of the first phase of project Youth Ambassadors, in the period of March 4th till 6th, the second training was held. The aim was to connect youth ambassadors more and to empower the team which will be the carrier of all future activities within the project. On the first meeting participants had the opportunity to meet each other on the individual level, so during this meeting the aim was to connect the group of individuals into a team which will be aware of all the potentials of its members and through common work and group motivation will help in the realization of the future activities. Together with their mentors, ambassadors got through series of workshops that helped them in team building, earning mutual trust, figuring out their role in the team and improving individual and team potential.

Last weekend, from January 29th until January 31st the first meeting within the project Youth Ambassadors was held. The project is realized by Youth for Peace in cooperation with the United Religions Initiative. During this meeting youth ambassadors, with the support of their mentors, created the plan of the whole project, and expressed their needs regarding to knowledge and skills that is necessary for them to gain, in order to become more quality change makers in the society. During the first meeting youth from 18 to 21 years old, from different parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina had the opportunity to meet each other, to meet their mentors, to form a team and to set up basics of trust and cooperation.

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In the next 9 months youth will have more meetings and trainings during which they will gain necessary knowledge and skills for the implementation of common project with the aim of promotion of peace and interreligious dialogue, and that will be the crown of the whole program. Next meeting is planned for the beginning of March and after that each ambassador will get his/her mentor who will support him/her during the project.

On this way Youth for Peace strengthens its own capacities, continues with the peace building activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina and promotion of youth activism in the society.

URI YA 2At Friday, the 29th of January, the first phase of the project Youth Ambassadors started. Youth for Peace’s project is implemented within the URI network and Global Youth Leaders Program. The idea is that the Youth for Peace team provides a group of young and motivated people with an education and mentoring for the next 9 months. A team of 10 mentors brought together young people aged between 18 and 21 years, to give them the opportunity to become leaders of the positive changes in their society.

URI YA 1The first phase of the project aims to bond the mentors and the future ambassadors, learn more about each other and to set the basics of communication and team work. Through these three days, the youth ambassadors will create the plan of the whole project, with the help of the mentors, so that they can gain the needed knowledge and skills for their own personal and professional progress.

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