Youth Peace Camp 2025 – Call for Participants

The Council of Europe is happy to announce the decision for contributors for the Youth Peace Camp 2025, an initiative devoted to selling peaceable and inclusive societies. This distinctive alternative brings collectively younger people from conflict-affected areas to foster understanding, dialogue, and peacebuilding.

About the Youth Peace Camp

The Youth Peace Camp was established in 2003 as part of the Council of Europe’s confidence-building measures. It serves as a platform for younger folks to have interaction in intercultural studying and purchase important abilities in battle transformation inside a human rights framework. The camp provides an area for contributors to share experiences, develop new views, and create initiatives geared toward peacebuilding of their communities.

Objectives of the Camp

The 2025 Youth Peace Camp goals to:

• Develop contributors’ competencies in human rights schooling, peacebuilding, and intercultural studying.
• Facilitate mutual studying from numerous experiences of battle and battle decision.
• Foster relationships amongst younger folks as a basis for dialogue and peacebuilding.
• Share youth work practices and methods for addressing battle in several communities.
• Encourage contributors to behave as multipliers, implementing peacebuilding initiatives past the camp.
• Strengthen the function of the Council of Europe in selling youth engagement in peace and safety, in step with UN Security Council Resolution 2250 and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Who Can Apply?

The Youth Peace Camp 2025 will carry collectively younger folks from the next areas:

• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Cyprus (Greek-speaking and Turkish-speaking communities)
• Kosovo (Albanian-speaking and Serbian-speaking communities)
• South Caucasus (together with conflict-affected areas and ethnic communities)
• Both banks of the river Nistru/Dniestr

Eligibility Criteria:

• Aged between 18 and 25 years (exceptions as much as 30 years attainable)
• Proficient in English
• Fully obtainable and dedicated to taking part in the complete camp (1-8 July 2025)
• Open-minded, curious, and prepared to have interaction with numerous views
• Motivated to apply the camp’s values, together with human rights, democracy, and peacebuilding
• Dedicated to implementing youth initiatives for peacebuilding after the camp
• Preferably affiliated with a company, community, or group supporting their engagement in peace initiatives

Event Details

• Dates: 30 June – 9 July 2025 (together with arrival and departure)
• Location: European Youth Centre, Strasbourg, France

How to Apply

Applications have to be submitted on-line. The deadline for functions is Sunday 13 April 2025, 23:59 CET.

For extra particulars and to apply, go to the Council of Europe web site.

This is an distinctive alternative for younger folks keen about peacebuilding to achieve useful expertise, develop significant connections, and contribute to a extra inclusive world.

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