Youth peace building training - Sudan: trainers manual
This document presents the trainers manual which accompanies the participants pack for a youth peace building training session. The long term objective of the training is to bring about changes in attitudes, behaviours, systems and structures that build peace as a result of processes and linkages initiated in the workshops.
The manual details the role of a trainer in relation to five themes: understanding conflict, human rights terminology and instruments; analysing conflict; intervening in conflict; exploring the potential impact of your intervention on the conflict; and the way forward. Most of the activities or exercises are elicitive, i.e. designed to draw out the knowledge of participants as the basis for discussion and learning. This approach aims to allow participants and trainers to identify and focus their efforts on local needs and adapt the training content to fi t their cultural context.
The general aims and principles of the training include:
- to serve as a model of inclusive development processes where participants come together as equals
- to create an environment where open and honest discussion takes place
- to build relationships and develop processes that can be sustained beyond the workshop
- discussions should be focused on Sudan’s development but should attempt to go beyond this and include regional and international issues.
