Preventing Violence Through Sports

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Content/background
The aggressiveness and the tendency to violence, especially among young people, is one of the biggest problems of today's world. Especially young people try to evaluate this energy increasing with puberty in various ways usually with harmful habits. Harmful habits cause violence. Solutions have been searched in all around the world for violence and it has been observed that sports activities have been the most effective tools. Recently it has been also used by Europe as a tool to prevent violence. We have decided to write this project to enable the sports to be used as a widespread tool in preventing violence as a group. In this sense, our overall aim is to show the participants that sports keeps the young off the violence.
Our specific objectives:
– To raise awareness in the young about the fact that violence can be decreased through sports.
– To disseminate the good practices among the partner organizations.
– To introduce the different branches of sports to the young.
– To prepare new suggestions to decrease the violence among the young.
– To disseminate the awareness of sports among the young.
– To establish long term cooperation among the partner organizations.
The number and the profile of the participants.
The participants are young people and youth leaders. The age range is 18-30. The age limit for the leaders is minimum is 25. Each partner will send 6 participants.
The methodology to be used and the description of the activities:
The activities have been planned as to support the active participation of the participants. The activities are the following: meeting and integration activities, ice-breakers, presentations on violence in the countries, the experiences related to violence, Erasmus + and youth pass sessions, cultural nights, promotion and the application of the unknown sports, the workshop of preventing violence, Street games and sports, orientring, visit to Youth Center and applications, project preparation sessions and evaluation activities.
The methods have been planned as non-formal education methods appropriate to the youth Project logic. The methods are the following: games, ice-breakers, energizers, presentations, discussion, group work, learning by experiencing, question-answer, role-playing, promotion, brainstorming, analyzing, team work, Project preparation and reporting, circuit training, preparing a theater play, field visit and workshop, 5 w and 1 h, verbal lecture and survey.
Foreseen results and a brief description of the impacts:
Awareness will be raised in the young that with contact meetings, group Works and discussions, violence can be reduced, the good practices will be disseminated among the partner organizations to prevent the violence through sports. Perhaps, they will learn the sports branches they have never tried before and will start doing those branches, the desire to do sports more consicously will increase among the young. New suggestions will be prepared to decrease the violence among the young, the target group and local people will be reached and they will be encouraged to prevent violence by using the sports. New Project ideas, cultural integration, the number of future cooperation will increase thanks to the good friendships.
Long term benefits:
Two sessions in the Project have been allocated for preparing Project drafts. In these sessions, the drafts to be prepared will allow long term cooperation. In long term contribution will be made to decreasing violence.

Uygulama

Each program will start with energizers to increase participants' concentration on activities. There is a 20 minute evaluation session at the end of each day. There will cultural evenings that encourage cultural exchange for 3 nights.
1st day:
Following the arrival, the participants will be oriented to increase their motivation to the project and to increase their adaptation to the environment.
2nd day
1st session, there will be ice breakers for the young participants
2nd session, the participants will discuss their ideas about the project topic and our leaders will discuss the ideas raised after reading these ideas.
3rd session, participants will share expectations and anxieties about the project, and project rules will be set up with participants to allow them to warm up to the Project.
4th session, the young participant will be presented Erasmus + Programme by our leader, then the UK leader will present 8 basic competencies of Youthpass.
3rd day
During the first session of the day, in the activity of ‘sports and Violence’ experienced athlete who himself also has experienced similar events UK leader will share his experiences and give information related to the topic. At this venue, the participants will increase their knowledge and experience and faith about the fact that sports can be used to prevent violence and also young people can get inspiration from this person.
The second session, in the activity ‘Violence in my country’, the Participating countries will present violence problems in their countries and activities aiming to prevent them. In this way, the participants will see good practices and increase their competence to prevent sports and violence. Each group will prepare and present good practices for preventing the violence in their home country on flip charts.
The third session, in the activity ‘Never Give Up‘ a presentation will be made on the biographies of some of the world famous sportsmen (Allen Iverson, Caron Butler, ….) who grew up in areas where violence, poverty, and drug abuse are happening and how these people got rid of such bad lives through sports.
4th session, the participants will learn about their talents they do not know by acquainting themselves with the less popular sports they have never heard of. It is the responsibility of the Czech partner to identify and perform sports.
4th day
1st session, with the workshop we will organize, we aimed to provide a solution to how to use sports to prevent violence with participants.
2nd session Orientation sports will be done. The outdoor activity will be highlighted and the participants will have done a new sport and will have the opportunity to use the information they receive.
3rd and 4th sessions of the day, original projects and ideas will be discussed on how street culture can be augmented and disseminated for street children, especially those who have fallen into violence and substance abuse.
5th day
1st two sessions of the day some of the sports branches described on the 3rd day will be implemented. After 30 minutes of station work in the sports complex, participants will discuss the benefits of sports they have attended and how it will work at the point of preventing violence.
3rd session, the participants will create a theater play that will attract the attention of the public to sports and violence.
4th session, this play will be displayed in open space, so that local people will also be involved in the Project, the visibility and the dissemination will be realized.
6th day
1st two sessions the neighborhood Sheringham will be visited and games will be played with the children in the neighborhood. Thus the dissemination of the project will be ensured and awareness will be raised in children While playing games, both the project will be promoted and the tendency of children to violence will be observed during the games. At the end of the game, children will have a discussion about sports and violence. Permission will be received from the parents to be able to include children in the discussion.
3rd and 4th session, the youth center of Sheringham will be visited. Here, after a short workshop in terms of preventing violence through sports, sports activities will be organized with young people coming to the youth center.
7th day
1st session, the participants will prepare a project draft that will encourage sports and will prevent violence in the future. 2nd session draft projects will be presented and developed and partnerships will be established.
3rd Session, We will discuss how we can disseminate our project and how we can further improve the impact. In this session, each group will prepare the news in their own language and publish it in the bulletin form on their web site or if they don’t have websites, they will share it on their social media accounts.
The last session is devoted to evaluation.

Sonuçlar

The Young people who learn the problems that the violence causes, who see the reasons causing people to resort to violence, who discuss the measures to prevent violence and become aware of this issue, will combine these experiences with good practices and will be in a position to prevent violence through sports. As a result of this awareness and increased knowledge, they will wish to take part in work for their peers and feel the need to intervene in social events.
Participants will raise awareness about violence and its effects and will see the possible disadvantages that could appear in the future.
Young people will realize the difference between those who do sports and those who don’t do sports and realize that they will lead a more successful and more peaceful life by doing sports in the following years.
Participants who witnessed people's thoughts about violence will think about new ways of solutions. Thanks to the preparations made beforehand, they will learn the methods of reaching results more quickly. Participants will recognize their shortcomings and contribute to their own personal development. Participants who will be more interested in the violence events happening around will begin to ask themselves how beneficial they can be to people and their nations. Through our project, our young people, who will raise awareness about the tendency to violence, will transfer this to their own environment, thus contributing to the reduction of the tendency towards violence. The young people who understand the present situation of the tendency to violence will enable people to understand to what extent the ignorance of this can negatively affect our future. Our efforts to prevent violence in the national sense will enable our young people to benefit from the project by sharing their work and products on social media and the internet.