Brave - Completed
Building Resilience Against Violent Extremism
ACRONYM
BRAVE
EXTENDED TITLE
Building Resilience Against Violent Extremism
PROGRAM
Erasmus+ - Key Action 1 Youth
PERIOD
June 2017 – May 2018
OBJECTIVE
The project aims at preventing the outbreak of extremist violence in multicultural settings by improving the quality of Counter-Violent Extremism (CVE) work and initiatives through capacity building of the practitioners and youth organizations involved in the CVE field.
The project has two main objectives:
1) Reinforce the civil society framework against violent extremism and radicalization:
- to enhance effective counter extremism work within the community;
- to promote effective activism and campaigning against extremis.
2) Prevent and reduce extremist violence and hate speech through concrete measure:
- to strengthen the role of youth associations or organization in countering violent extremism;
- to promote the role of gender dimension in countering violent extremism and hate speech.
PARTNERS
CSV Belluno/Comitato d’Intesa – Italy CSVnet – Italy
One step forward Tunisia OSF – Tunisia
Jordan Youth Innovation Forum – Giordania
AKTO – Associacao para a promocao dos direitos humanos e democracia – Portugal
Society Bridge to the Future – Georgia
PRISMS Malta – Malta
Savez gluhih i nagluhih grada Zagreba – Croazia
The Mediterranean Forum for Youth – Marocco
Fundación Al Fanar para el Conocimiento Árabe – Spain
RESULTS
Thanks to this project, a training course for youth workers took place in Mezzano from 12th to 20th December 2017. The root causes of extremist violence are addressed through the do-no-harm methodology used in the peace building field.
