Description
YOUTH LEADERSHIP AND PEACE BUILDING COURSE FOR YOUTH LEADERS This Programme aims to provide an opportunity for young people of the world to share their ideas and experiences of improving their communities and making a better world. It is a forum for youths to gain new skills, explore issues, work on practical projects, ICT for new life, build new friendship, collaboration and have fun. Another side of the course will involve looking at issues in-depth and sharing information, insights, good practices in conflict resolution, peace- building and a range of development related issues. The main aim of this course is to train youth leaders in the fields of peace, development, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and sustainable development in order to meet the challenges facing youth NGOs/organizations in the 21st century, in either the developed or developing countries.

Methodology
The course will be a mixture of lectures, working groups, exercises, and readings/discussions. It will be divided into four main sections related to peace building & governance, ICT for Development, civil society and capacity building and organizational development. Principal concepts, major approaches and activities, and role of governance and civil society will be highlighted. Lectures and discussions will take place in the morning sessions, while parallel workshops will be organized in the afternoon. Lectures will primarily use the case study approach and especially focus on recent peace-building activities of national and international governmental and non-governmental stakeholders worldwide. The overall purpose of the afternoon workshops is to provide practical training in the skills essential to effective and sustainable conflict resolution/organizational development and mutually beneficial relationships. These workshops are also expected to integrate what has been learned in the morning sessions. The workshops will be split into five groups, each focusing on specific problem areas: constitutionalism and legislation, political parties and electoral processes, civil society and organizational development, social policy and gender issues, and peace and security policy as well as ICT policy. The goal of this exercise is to engage in deep analysis of the problems under each topic and make recommendations that are likely to address not only the specific problems, but also to contribute of long-term peace-building in conflict areas. Each group will identify critical problems, describe and analyze their root causes, identify countries with the greatest manifestations of these problems, outline approaches and measures to cause change, specify the necessary conditions of effectiveness by actors (national, regional and international governmental and non-governmental). Public presentation of the integrated report at the end of the course is anticipated. It is anticipated that some evenings will be taken up by participants' presentations on concrete conflict cases.

Target group
The course is designed for youth leaders across the world working for the youth issues, development, ICT and other sector. Selected participants around 50 youth leaders will be selected to attend this course.

Partnership
”YCW” runs this event in collaboration with other organizations and highly respectable and knowledgeable individuals in the field of peace or development in the United Kingdom .

Expected Outcomes
Participants, as reliable young active citizens with great potential and the desire to impact their homes on their return, will have new skills and perspectives. They will be empowered to become leaders on their communities and the world. 

Location
London, UK

Content/Agenda
Participants are reminded that this course is going to be very intensive. It will be divided into four main sections related to peace building & governance, ICT for Development, civil society and capacity building and organizational development as well as build new friendships, partnerships, collaborations and have fun.

Day one
- Introductions - why we are here?
- Definitions
- Peacemaking v. peacekeeping v. peace building
- Complex Emergencies - Recent trends and sources of conflict
- Political, economic, environmental roots
- ICT issues, policy and it's implementations
- ICT for accelerating progress on the MDGs
- How to design web page for an organization
- Mailing list, discussions forum
- How to raise funds
- Identification of projects for fundraising
Day two
- Ethnic tensions
- Human rights abuses
· Health impact
· Proposal writing skills
· Principle, Concepts and Strategies for Good Governance
- What is governance and what are its aims?
- Rule of law
- Democracy and development do we need it?
- Sustainable development
- Strategic areas of governance
- Group discussion: problems and solutions
  Workshop: concepts and strategies for peace-building / conflict transformation

Day three
- Power and Choice
- Levels of understanding
- UN system
- Role of civil society
- how to manage a NGO
- Project planning and management
- Developing a communication strategy and working with the media
- Project evaluations and reviews
- Conflict Resolution
- Possible outcomes
- Different models in use today
- 'Power with'
- Role of facilitator

Day four
International Networking/Partnership,
Group photo session, tea with media and conflict victims, further relationships, cultural exchange programs, shopping, site seeing (visit centre london) and camp fire with dinner.
 

if you and your group are interested in this programme please contact.
email: info@youthchangeworld.org , changeworldnet@gmail.com