Youth Peace Camp: Young Leaders from conflict zones meet at the Europa Park
Strasbourg, 02.07.2009 - Forty-two young people from conflict and post-conflict regions, including Israel and the territories under Palestinian Authority, Georgia (including South Ossetia and Abkhazia) and the Kosovo Serb and Albanian communities, will attend a one-week training course at the "Europa Park" in Rust, Germany on 5-12 July. The programme gives participants an opportunity to deal with inter-community conflict and hatred through face-to-face interaction and a series of practical exercises, building mutual trust, strengthening common understanding and dissipating prejudice and stereotypes.
The Deputy Secretary General, Maud de Boer Buquicchio, will receive the young participants at the Council of Europe Headquarters Palais de l'Europe in Strasbourg on Wednesday, 8 July 2009.
The leisure park "Europa Park" will host this unique event for the sixth year in a row, giving young leaders and activists the chance to work in a different atmosphere from the one of war, devastation and conflict.
According to the main trainer and course leader, Michael Raphael, "The programme aims at creating a team-building experience, based on creative techniques promoting a constructive dialogue in the spirit of the core values promoted by the Council of Europe. The seminar gives an opportunity to youth leaders belonging to antagonistic communities to tell their stories in a safe environment, and to prepare inter-community networks and partnerships".
More information:
Giuseppe Zaffuto, Press office
Tel: + 33 3 90 21 56 04, mobile: + 33 6 86 32 10 24, giuseppe.zaffuto@coe.int
Udo Seiwert-Fauti, Media correspondent for German-speaking countries
Tel: + 49 78 08 91 11 36, mobile: + 49 171 496 22 73, udo@europeanmedia.eu
Caroline Becker, Europa Park Head of Public Relations
Tel: +49 07 822 77 14 110, caroline.becker@europapark.de
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