Peace Education Trainings

Conflict Transformation & Prejudice Reduction Trainings

For the last nine years, Youth for Peace International has been equipping young people across India with the skills to transform conflict, challenge prejudice, and build inclusive communities in their everyday contexts. Through immersive, practice‑oriented trainings, youth learn to understand themselves, engage across lines of difference, and lead change in their families, campuses, and communities.

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Why Conflict Transformation for Youth?

Young people in India are navigating rising polarization, online hate, and everyday discrimination at home, in classrooms, and on campuses. YfPI’s training creates safe spaces where youth can examine their own identities and biases, practice non‑violent tools for managing conflict, and discover their power as peacebuilders in their communities. Grounded in experiential methods and adult learning principles, the curriculum moves participants from self‑awareness to collaborative action for peace.

9

60+

25,000+

YEARS OF TRAINING ACROSS INDIA
PEACE EDUCATION TRAININGS
YOUNG PEOPLE POSITIVELY IMPACTED

Our Approach & Methodology

Experiential & participatory

Learning by doing through interactive activities, reflecting and applying concepts to real life.

Trauma-sensitive & relationship-centred

Safe, trust-based spaces for open dialogue and real stories.

Context-rooted, globally informed

Globally tested frameworks adapted to local realities.

Leadership by youth, for youth

Many facilitators are themselves young peacebuilders who have grown through YfPI programmes and now train their peers.

Participant Reflection

“Through this training, I found the confidence to speak up, listen across differences and address conflict more constructively in my campus and community. It has inspired me to lead local peace initiatives, such as in the form of dialogues and learn more about the YPS agenda. It is great to have continued support from my mentors at YfPI in this journey.”
Janvi Kour

What Participants Learn

Self‑understanding

This pillar focuses on helping participants explore their personal stories, identities and lived experiences. Participants reflect on belonging and exclusion, examine the groups they identify with, and consider how these experiences shape their values, perspectives and responses to conflict.

Prejudice awareness and reduction

This pillar strengthens participants’ ability to recognise bias and take responsibility for change. Participants examine how stereotypes form, how everyday prejudice can escalate into discrimination or violence, and how social norms influence attitudes, while developing empathy and practical strategies to interrupt harmful behaviours.

Conflict transformation skills

This pillar equips participants with practical tools to understand and transform conflict non-violently. Participants explore conflict dynamics and escalation, strengthen communication skills such as active listening and constructive dialogue, and practice approaches that shift interactions from competition to cooperation.

Leadership,
vision & storytelling

This pillar supports participants in growing as youth leaders and advocates for peace. Participants clarify their purpose, develop a forward-looking vision for their work, and build confidence in communicating their ideas effectively, including using digital platforms responsibly to amplify positive change.

Our Training Format

Multi-Day Intensive Workshops

3–5 day residential or non‑residential trainings that take youth through the full arc of self‑understanding, prejudice awareness, conflict transformation, and leadership.

Training of Trainers
(ToT)

For selected youth leaders, we offer facilitation skills and co‑training practice, enabling them to replicate key sessions in their own communities using a cascade model.

Customised Modules
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We adapt sessions for schools, universities, NGOs, refugee communities, and interfaith initiatives, keeping the experiential, participatory methodology at the core.

Follow-up & Community Action

Alumni stay connected through YfPI initiatives such as the Indian Coalition on Youth, Peace and Security, mini‑grants, and collaborative campaigns on the Youth, Peace and Security agenda.

Bring This Training to Your Community

Whether you are a youth‑led group, a college, an organisation, or a network

working with young people, we would love to explore how this training can

support your work.