A new two-year project on “Prevention of Violent Extremism through Youth Empowerment in Jordan, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia” was launched by young leaders, UNESCO and the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT), at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, on 24 April 2018. The new project support youth driven initiatives on the ground in education, sciences, culture, and the media to prevent violent extremism. Youth organizations, education stakeholders and media professionals are mobilized around programmes that include cross-cultural youth dialogues, training in conflict-sensitive reporting, and critical thinking labs.
