From 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.