DocuPeace Training Course: A New Way to Peacebuilding through Documentary Filmmaking

About the project

DocuPeace Training Course: A New Way to Peacebuilding through Documentary Filmmaking is an Erasmus+ training project for youth workers addressing Creativity, arts and culture, Prevention of conflicts, post-conflict rehabilitation and Human rights and rule of law. It was developed to equip youth workers with knowledge, competencies, and practical experience in alternative tools that can be used in peace-building processes and peace education in conflict regions. The project uses non-formal education and international cooperation to turn these themes into practical learning, organisational development and community-level action.

Objectives

* To equip youth workers with knowledge, competencies, and practical experience in alternative tools that can be used in peace-building processes and peace education in conflict regions.
* To foster the skill development and the active citizenship of youth workers through documentary filmmaking as a non-formal tool for making them changemakers to create awareness on the issues that they define as important and to foster peace through documentaries.
* To equip youth workers with knowledge and skills of concepts to be acquainted for a peaceful conflict resolution such as non-violent communication skills, the culture of peace and peacebuilding, human rights.
* To develop participants’ competencies on practical 101 tools in documentary filmmaking, particularly sensitive approach to the documentary character, and familiarize with the process of pre-production, production and postproduction.
* To facilitate the process of designing at least 3 documentary projects with synopsis, recording a series of 5 interviews with activists and designing 4 follow-up documentary script ideas to be implemented in the partner countries that will multiply the participant’s project-related skills.
* To create a short documentary remake of K Kieślowski “Talking Heads” documentary and disseminate it through YPA network channels and the Momos Film production company.
* To enhance the understanding of democratic values, civic engagement, and the impact on the lives of young people.

Activities

* Implementation of an international training activity for youth workers involving the participating organisations.
* Non-formal workshops, collaborative tasks, practical exercises and structured reflection connected to the project themes.
* Local follow-up, dissemination and transfer activities led by participants and partner organisations.

Impact

The project seeks to share and facilitate a learning process so that the participants will acquire knowledge about key concepts: peace, violence, human rights, conflict, NVC methodology, basic knowledge about film equipment and flow of the film production, and knowledge on how to design a session. In addition to that we not only settle for sharing knowledge but nurture and equip the participants with skills. The project seeks to combine the skills of peace-building and non-violence, with the introductory skills in filmmaking. The training will serve also as an ignition for further filmmaking skills development.

Project partners

• 🇩🇪 planIMPACT - Verein für Menschenrechte, Frieden und Entwicklung e.V
  Germany
• 🇮🇸 áhugafélag um listir og fræðslu ungmenna í Reykjavík
  Iceland
• 🇪🇸 ASOC SOCIO CULTURAL VERDESUR ALCALA
  Spain
• 🇹🇷 Creative Youth Academy
  Türkiye
• 🇵🇱 Peace Ambassadors Poland
  Poland
• 🇫🇷 Youth Peace Ambassadors Network France
  France
• 🇬🇷 IASMOS COLLECTIVE PROJECT
  Greece
• 🇹🇷 Avrupa Entegrasyon Derneği
  Türkiye