WORKSHOPS The diversity of young people is reflected in the diverse ways they engage and participate. While some might feel more comfortable with content-driven discussions, others might prefer to take a more creative approach to expressing their ideas, demands and emotions. Accordingly, allowing every participant to choose the form of engagement with which they feel most comfort- able was one of the core principles of Youth4Peace. It resulted in eight different workshops addressing a broad range of topics such as commemoration, inclusion, youth participation and peace-storytelling. The partici- pants were assigned to the workshops in line with their personal preferences, ensuring their experience would fit in well with their prior engagement and personal inter- ests and beliefs. In addition, some participants attended the workshop that was tasked with creating the Agenda that would later be presented to Germany’s Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Federal Youth Minister Karin Prien. The participants’ intensive, week-long engagement within their workshop groups and their respective topics not only resulted in a variety of creative and precious outcomes with alternative approaches, it also gave them many profound impressions and moments of self-re- flection to take home with them. The following pages feature some participants’ written impressions of what they experienced in the workshops.
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