Major past activities

UNOY has built capacities of youth for more than 2 decades. You will find below a non-exhaustive selection of the main activities and projects implemented recently:

2009 Study Session with the Council of Europe on Gender Equality in Youth Peacebuilding Projects

  • Promote Gender awareness among European Youth organisations on including a gender perspective in their projects.
  • Promote awareness on gender inequality and gender discrimination.
  • Exchange experiences in developing gender sensitive activities and projects.

2008- 2009 Four gender trainings for youth led (peace) organisations.

  • Promote awareness on the gender inequality and gender discrimination.
  • Training skills in developing gender sensitive activities and projects.

2008 – present: 3 workshops yearly on peacebuilding and project management for African Diaspora organisations.

2008 Study Session with the Council of Europe on the applicability of peacebuilding in Youth work.

  • Promote the engagement of youth and youth organisations in peacebuilding efforts
  • Promote cooperation between youth working for peace
  • Exchange experiences in peace building and conflict transformation among youth with different cultural and educational backgrounds
  • Explore the applicability of peacebuilding theories and practices in various cultural settings and different types of conflict

2008 African Youth in Motion for Peace” Capacity-Building and Networking Event, Kenya

  • Develop and implement skills, methods and tools in peacebuilding in order to analyse and deal with the inter- and intra- personal, community and organisational, cultural, social and political dimensions of conflict and peace
  • Develop and implement organisational knowledge and skills  concerning project management, fundraising and advocacy in the participants’ organisations and local activities
  • Improve and apply networking skills with multiplying effects among members, affiliates, and other actors active in the UNOY Peacebuilders’ African network.
  • Increase sustainability of organisations and identify ways to develop joint projects at local and national levels, specifically in the African region

2007 European Building Peace Skills Training Seminar, Netherlands

  • Promote active citizenship
  • Promote tolerance and Dialogue (inter-faith/cultural)
  • Foster mutual understanding
  • Develop the project management skills to initiate youth projects on their own
  • Promote European cooperation between youth.
  • To learn about the ethical frameworks of the Earth Charter and the Culture of Peace and to analyse conflicts in day-to-day life situations.

2005-2010(twice each year) Building Peace Skills, The Netherlands

  • Promote active citizenship in the Netherlands
  • Promote tolerance and Dialogue (inter-faith/cultural)
  • Develop project management skills to initiate youth projects on their own
  • To learn about the ethical frameworks of the Earth Charter and the Culture of Peace and to analyse conflicts in day-to-day life situations.

2003-present development of six Toolkits and Publications, The Netherlands/Global

2000- present African Conference, The Netherlands

  • Promote active citizenship in African countries and the Netherlands
  • Promote tolerance among youth effected by conflicts
  • Foster mutual understanding between Diaspora, Dutch and African youth and students
  • To explore and learn about underlying dynamics behind conflict on the African Continent. (The theme changes yearly, but includes conflict transformation, media, gender etc.)
 
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