A video lesson on the topic of escalation posted on the Facebook page of the Fund "Sukhumi" had a lot of responses. Workshop participants familiarized themselves with the topic in advance. Then - during online work - members of the conflict management groups of schools in the villages: Melauri (Samtredia municipality), Menji (Senaki municipality) and Khajalia (Lanchkhuti municipality) discussed this issue more actively.

In addition to theoretical materials, they are interested in practical examples - they are worried about the tension regarding the elections, they did not leave without attention the issue of Armenian - Azerbaijanian conflict.

Workshop participants noted that they were unfamiliar with the term “escalation”, but now they know the essence of this word and want to learn more about conflict resolution. They will also participate in the information campaign “16 active days against gender- based violence”.

In November, the International Campaign "16 Active Days Against Gender-based Violence" begins. Youth clubs of 10 municipalities of Western Georgia are actively involved in the campaign. Before the start of the campaign, online working meetings with the leaders of the Youth Clubs were held and plans of activities were discussed. Young people have interesting ideas, and their activity will be demonstrated during 16 days.

“I first learned about escalation”, “You explained this topic to us in an interesting and understandable way”, “When will the next meeting be held?” - This is the feedback from the students.

The conflict escalation was discussed at online workshops with the conflict management groups from school No. 5 in Kobuleti, school No. 2 of the village Lia (Tsalenjikha municipality) and the village Gurianta (Ozurgeti municipality).

The pupils got acquainted with video lesson on the Facebook page of the Fund "Sukhumi" and expressed their opinions. With the help of the messenger, the conflict expert sent them small stories in which the escalation stages are clearly visible.

When discussing the topic of violence, adolescents draw parallels with stereotypes and traditions that represent women as subordinates. That is why these questions were discussed at the meetings of the Youth Clubs: “Forms of violence. Equal society. Traditions and Stereotypes”.

After each meeting, the motivation of groups and the desire to actively participate in the process of preventing violence grows more and more.

The meetings were held online with the Youth Clubs of the schools No. 5 in Kobuleti, No. 12 in Kutaisi and the village Pakhulani (Tsalenjikha municipality).

All meetings were different from each other. Young people joined the discussion of the topic with great interest, gave examples, looked for reasons, solutions...

Online meetings were held with members of the Youth Clubs of Terjola School No. 2, Poti School No. 1 and School of the village Pakhulani (Tsalenjikha Municipality). They talked about the problems of violence among adolescents, about the reasons of violence and protection mechanisms.

At the end of October, 4 more workshops were held - with members of the conflict management group in Poti school # 4, village Koki (Zugdidi municipality), Kveda Simoneti (Terjola municipality) and the Georgian-American school "Progress" in Kutaisi. This is how the planned 10 workshops of the month were completed.

The participants of the workshops, together with the conflict expert of the Fund "Sukhumi", discussed the reasons of conflict. Lack of money, different values, distorted information - according to the participants, these reasons often cause conflicts. In the end, they noted that as a result of such meetings, they learn how to avoid conflicts or resolve them peacefully.

The students noted that after such work they become more tolerant and friendly. Online workshops were held with members of the conflict management group of Melauri (Samtredia municipality), Menji (Senaki municipality) and Hajalia (Lanchkhuti municipality).

The conflict expert of the Fund "Sukhumi" explained to the participants, what is the reason of conflict, and the students gave specific examples. Attention was paid to different values, which, in their opinion, are often shown in relation to different nationalities and religions.

The topic “The problem of violence among adolescents” motivated the participants to have a frank conversation. Online meetings were held with the youth clubs of Khajalia (Lanchkhuti municipality), Kutaisi and Senaki. Despite the low quality of the Internet, the online meetings were active, interesting stories were announced. The meetings identified the leaders, who are planning to work independently.

In October, active work began with new groups of youth clubs. The topic of the month is "Problems of Violence among Adolescents". Young people got involved in the work with interest. Active support from the side of directors, teachers and parents is felt.

Kobuleti, Gurianta (Ozurgeti Municipality) and Etseri (Samtredia Municipality) - online meetings were held with the youth clubs of these schools in the first days of October.

Young people are motivated, active and, most importantly, have future plans for initiated meetings and group work, new ideas, know how to work in social networks - prepare essays, videos...

"There are such problems in adolescents and it is good to talk about these topics."

"Information distortion is often the reason of conflict."

"I understand how to avoid conflict"...

This is how the participants expressed their views at the end of the meetings.

Online workshops were conducted with members of conflict management groups from three schools - Kobuleti No 5, Lia (Tsalenjikha Municipality) No 2 and Gurianta (Ozurgeti Municipality).

Together with the conflict expert of the Fund "Sukhumi", the participants talked about the reasons of the conflict, real and concrete examples.