How to work on human rights and nonviolence with young people: five manuals with educational resources
Teachers, social educators, youth organisations and youth workers often face a difficult question: how can we talk with young people about racism, inequality, the climate crisis or human rights without falling into abstract discussions?
To provide practical tools for these educational spaces, the NOVACT Institute for Nonviolence and the Movimiento por la Paz (MPDL) have published five manuals with pedagogical resources to address these issues with young people from a human rights, critical thinking and nonviolence perspective.
Educational resources to address social challenges with young people
The materials include activities, group dynamics and methodological guidance to explore with young people some of today’s key social challenges: gender equality, environmental justice, poverty, human rights and antiracism.
Each manual combines an analysis of the youth context with practical activities and methodological recommendations designed to support work both in formal education and in non-formal educational settings.
The aim is to strengthen young people’s ability to critically analyse reality, participate in collective life and develop nonviolent responses to inequalities and different forms of violence.
Explore the manuals
- Human Rights: a resource manual for working with young people
- Gender Equality: a resource manual for working with young people
- Environmental Justice: a resource manual for working with young people
- Fighting Poverty: a resource manual for working with young people
- Interculturality and Antiracism: a resource manual for working with young people
These manuals are part of the project “Yes to Peace: Youth for Sustainable Peace and Global Citizenship”, promoted by the NOVACT Institute for Nonviolence and the Movimiento por la Paz (MPDL), with funding from the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).
The project promotes transformative education based on human rights, social justice and youth participation, and strengthens initiatives in Catalonia such as the Programa Vitamina, which aims to foster the personal and community leadership of young people in vulnerable contexts through non-formal education methodologies and community-based work.