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MOSAIC - The training kit for Euro-Mediterranean youth work

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Further in<strong>for</strong>mation<br />

Have a look at www.haguepeace.org/resources/<strong>youth</strong>Agenda.pdf – the Youth Agenda <strong>for</strong><br />

Peace and Justice – which was agreed by <strong>youth</strong> participants at the World Peace Conference<br />

in <strong>The</strong> Hague in 1999. You could also look at the web page of the Decade <strong>for</strong> Culture of Peace<br />

and Non-violence (2001-2010) at www.unac.org/peacecp/decade, where there is in<strong>for</strong>mation<br />

from 700 different organisations on what they do to promote a culture of peace.<br />

Handouts<br />

Description of the conflict: Paper factory<br />

Analysis of the conflict<br />

Role cards <strong>for</strong> groups 1 to 4<br />

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Handout 1: Paper Factory<br />

You are a <strong>youth</strong> group in the Liper Republic. A few months ago, the President of Liper<br />

announced that a large paper factory would be built by the Noe River, the main river<br />

running through the republic. <strong>The</strong> factory will provide thousands of new jobs <strong>for</strong> local<br />

<strong>work</strong>ers and will give a significant boost to the country’s ailing economy.<br />

However, the announcement has been met by furious protests in the country bordering<br />

yours, the Republic of Gonzo, which is downstream on the Noe River. <strong>The</strong> economy of Gonzo<br />

is heavily dependent on agriculture and food industries, and farmers and ecological<br />

groups are concerned that polluted water running through their land will be detrimental<br />

to public health and to the economy.<br />

Mass demonstrations have been organised in<br />

towns in Gonzo to try to <strong>for</strong>ce the government<br />

to take action to stop the building of the<br />

paper factory in Liper. Some of these protests<br />

have turned violent. <strong>The</strong> atmosphere is so<br />

tense that Liperi residents of Gonzo have<br />

been attacked and feel increasingly under<br />

threat. <strong>The</strong>re has recently been a marked increase<br />

in hate speech, often recalling historical<br />

tensions between the two countries.<br />

Mr Azzaitun, the President of the EMOPAC<br />

(<strong>Euro</strong>-Med Organisation <strong>for</strong> the Prevention of<br />

Armed Conflict), has offered to mediate in the<br />

growing conflict and has tried to get the two<br />

governments to sit down together. But things<br />

have reached such a stage that neither side<br />

will even agree to that.<br />

Liper<br />

Republic<br />

Gonzo<br />

Republic<br />

As a <strong>youth</strong> group in the Liper Republic, you<br />

are concerned about the escalating conflict<br />

and would like to do something to prevent it<br />

<strong>Mediterranean</strong> Sea<br />

becoming more violent. Every day the news gets<br />

worse and you hear more and more alarming<br />

accounts of what is happening in Gonzo. <strong>The</strong> cultural differences between the Liperi<br />

and Gonzi people are not significant, but your news channels say that Liperis are being<br />

targeted <strong>for</strong> attack and now your government has announced that it is not a safe place to<br />

travel to Gonzo. It is hard to know what to believe, since the Gonzo news seems to give<br />

the opposite point of view. Many Liperis have holiday homes on the coastline in Gonzo<br />

and it is the traditional place <strong>for</strong> people from your country to go in the summer.<br />

Noe river<br />

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<strong>MOSAIC</strong> - <strong>The</strong> <strong>training</strong> <strong>kit</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Euro</strong>-<strong>Mediterranean</strong> <strong>youth</strong> <strong>work</strong>

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