The Capacity Building project “EuroMed Youth work for Intercultural Democratic Citizenship Preventing Polarisation” appears as a reflection on the role of youth work in preventing extreme polarisation affecting our communities and specially involving young people. Events in our societies have brought the consortium of youth work organisations from Tunisia, Lebanon, Spain and Estonia to analyse the complexity of addressing polarisation within the youth work perspective and its potential to prevent its dynamics. From the experiences developed at local level and previous Euro-Mediterranean cooperation, the consortium proposes to develop cooperation for innovation on Intercultural Democratic Citizenship practices and the exchange of good youth work practices in the field of the Prevention of Polarisation.The main aim of the project is to exchange best practices and develop innovative methodological approaches and practical tools through which youth workers, youth leaders and educators may engage with young people to explore root causes and develop competences to prevent violent extremism through democratic citizenship and human rights education.The programme included the exchange of good practices as well as the development of initiatives in cooperation with other civil society actors. Among the depolarisation methodologies that were shared during the course there were experiences in the development of Dialogue Circles, Living Libraries, Citizen Cohesion Spaces, Appreciative Dialogues …
