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We Choose Non-violence

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 566010-EPP-1-2015-1-ME-EPPKA2-CBY-WB
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Capacity Building for youth in neighbouring and enlargement countries Funder Contribution: 57,600 EUR

We Choose Non-violence

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Applicant NGO Prima from Montenegro with partner organizations from: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, France, FYR Macedonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Romania, Serbia, Spain and Turkey, proposed project “We Choose Non-violence”. Realization lasted 11 months, from 01. October 2015. till 31. August 2016. Life without violence is basic human right which has to be available to all, without exception. Unfortunately a lot of people still think that women and LGBTs already have all rights. Even more, many people think that LGBTs are sick, deviant and dangerous, so that their rights should be cut. Especially in the poorer and traditional societies persists very strong resistance to changes in this field. Problem became complicated by the development of new technologies that have enabled widespread sharing very intimate contents. With more social networks, easy-to-use programs for video posting, lack of institutional measures to sanction hate speech in the media and the Internet, peer gender violence has even more devastating consequences. Even possibility to be publicly ridiculed and your fundamental rights could be disabled, inspires fear, especially among young people who are still developing their identity and their confidence is shaky. One of proofs for this is Gender Equality Index which indicates very high gender inequality in Balkans and many EU countries. After years of work with victims of gender violence, fight for gender equality and cooperation with NGOs at European level, conclusion is that we have common problem and need to undertake some solutions together. Our main goal was to build capacities which support broader struggle against gender violence as well as sharing culture of non-violence. We realized two types of activities: capacity building and mobility activities. In the frame of capacity building we realized: - national training of 26 peer volunteers as building of NGO Prima’s capacities in gender peer prevention at the local and national level. We trained peer educators mostly from Northern municipalities, where it is more conservative environment, which implies higher level of gender violence.- creation of Manual for prevention of gender based violence, aimed for youth workers, peer educators and youth in general. Manual is edited on line, at web sites and social networks of NGO Prima and project partners, available in English and, so to say, Balkan languages. Manual is tool for youth workers to educated new trainees in this topic, but also it’s suited to any young person who wants to check is he/she victim of gender violence abuser or abuser, or how to help to someone who is. - We raised capacities of our on line counseling for youth - Workshops of peer educators in schools and youth clubs in their municipalities- We created short video clip, available in Youtube channel of NGO Prima as a tool to attract more young people for our work in prevention of gender based violence and non-formal education too. In the frame of mobility activities we realized two trainings of youth workers, which was realized in Bar, Montenegro and gathered 67 youth workers from 17 countries + trainers and support staff. First training was about how to recruit and educate peer educators for prevention of gender violence and second covered topic of creating and writing public policies, strategies and laws in aim to prevent gender violence.In this project we devoted special attention to “soft” types of gender violence, especially to the trend of young abusers to treat verbal violence as a joke as well as the trend of the victims to treat jealousy and control as a sign of true love. Our mission is life without violence and gender inequality, for more inclusive Europe.

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