From Violence to Resilience

Positive Transformative Programmes to Grow Young Leaders

Nic Fine, Jo Broadwood

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9781849051835
• eBook ISBN: 9780857003140
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Work
• Index: Social Sciences

How do you break the vicious cycle of violence that affects the lives of many young people today? Transformative programmes can help young people to change the way they think about themselves and their futures, and offer support to help them to become resilient and positive young leaders of their community.

This manual, based on approaches used successfully by Leap Confronting Conflict, is a guide to designing and setting up transformative programmes and targeted interventions with young people. Part 1 provides guidance and advice on developing a transformative programme and demonstrates how it can help young people break free of violence. Part 2 outlines a full programme on building leadership skills made up of four workshops: Leadership, Advanced Leadership, Leadership in Action, and Fear and Fashion: Tackling knife carrying and use.

The manual is packed with exercises and activities and includes full guidance notes and tips on setting up and facilitating the workshops. It will be invaluable for all those working with young people at risk of violence, those managing and delivering programmes for young people, and policy makers, academics and students in youth and conflict fields.

Table of contents

• From Violence to Resilience: Positive Transformative Programmes to GrowYoung Leaders
• Acknowledgements
• About the Authors
• Introduction
• Part I: Developing Transformative Programmes for Youth at Risk
• Part II: The Leadership Programme
• Resources