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Chapter 1

What’s this booklet?

This booklet is made to share our experiences in conflict management and we would like
people could use this instruments in their lives.
Everyday, during the training course “Core2”, participants collected all the games and
activities they did trying to explain them, following some issues as the aim, the duration,
number of participants, etc.
We hope these activities could be useful for other Youth workers, Trainers, Educators,
interested in developing the topics of conflict management through non formal methods.
All the activities had a great impact on participants because they worked on the emotional
level.
The activities were first of all tools of personal development: especially Theatre of Oppressed
and the simulations made participants face their attitude and fears toward conflicts and their
stereotype toward cultural differences.
The process was deep and for this reason the final results, in terms of gained competences,
self-awareness, intercultural growth and personal development were amazing; here some
comments extracted by the Final Evaluation questionnaire:
“First I want to point out that I learned how to express myself and to act in a way. Also to
overcome stagefright which is very important for me because I am also working as a youth
educator. New ideas for activities and of course the theatre of the oppressed