Case Study No 3

Conflict Resolution Training for Youth Leaders

The total Grant is Euro18090

Background: Thrive is a community of professionals that offer quality tailor-made training programmes, organisation interventions and selection and assessment processes, this training is a result of expressed current needs in the Youth and Community Sector .

Development of the Idea: At a conference organized by Causeway for organisations involved in Cross-border work, organizations expressed a needs for training in conflict resolution before they would feel comfortable dealing with these issues within an exchange environment.

A Causeway Special Project was planned with a view to exploring how exchange visits sponsored by Causeway could be improved by introducing sessions that enable young people explore how conflict between the peoples of these islands has affected the relationship between people.

To equip participants with the skills and exercises needed to introduce "dealing with conflict" within exchange visits

The Event Itself: This project addressed the need identified by Causeway for exchange visits sponsored by the programme to address the key reason why it established i.e. reducing the misunderstanding that arises from the conflict that has taken between the peoples on these islands. The project provided participants (both young people and leaders) with the skills and exercises needed to include this issue within the exchange visit. While recognising that much youth work (as with most adult education processes) needs to build trust between participants at the outset, and later introduce conflict issues within the exchange programme either towards the end of the first exchange or within the return visit.

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