Calling All Young Peacemakers!

This exciting online program brings together young people like you who are passionate about peace education, youth work, and civic engagement.

Program Details:

Upon registration, you’ll receive selection confirmation and meeting details (date, time, topic, speakers, Zoom link) 7 days prior.

  • Format: Monthly 2-hour online meetings in English (May 2024 – April 2025).
  • Outcomes:
    • Certificate of attendance (80% minimum participation).
    • Practical recommendations for advancing peace education (distributed as handouts).

What We Offer:

  • Get to know practitioners and experts in youth work, peace education and related topics from other countries and your community.
  • Share and learn new best-practice concepts for peace-education, violence-prevention, intercultural understanding and youth work on interpersonal and community level.
  • Discuss the role of non-formal and formal educational institutions for promoting peace education among youth, political and other relevant stakeholders.
  • Explore new practical concepts and methods to integrate peace-educational principles into various educational contexts.
  • Assess the needs and the impact of peace-education on supporting sustainable development.
  • Identify challenges and brainstorm solutions for advancing peace-education initiatives with youth on community level.
  • Possibility for selected active members to join working group with international expert group for development of practical concept of peace education with youth in South Caucasus.

Who can apply?

  • Youth workers, social workers, facilitators, educators, researchers, students, or NGO/educational institution representatives.
  • Active and interested in youth work, civic education, or peace-education.
  • Eager to learn and share best practices with others.
  • Have a good level of spoken English.

The project “fairtogether: ConnAct for peace-education in South Caucasus” strengthens peace-education, conflict prevention and de-radicalization in the South Caucasus region and is supported by funds from the German Federal Foreign Office through ifa e.V. in line with the Zivik funding program.

Implementing organizations:

act for transformation: We are German association act for transformation founded by trainers for peace- building and global education in 2007 in Aalen, a city in the South of Germany. Since then we are working together with local and international partner organizations in the directions of volunteer exchange programs, peace-building, global education and relief-work for person with migration background. 

Together with the local partner organizations:

Common Sense Youth Organisation, Sumgait, Azerbaijan

Act for Transformations Caucasus Office, Tbilisi, Georgia

Association Atinati, Zugdidi, Georgia

The platform is implemented together with Center for Peace and Civic Development, Tbilisi, Georgia