Learning from violence - Youth policy Responses to Everyday Violence - Symposium Report (2004)

Young people are as exposed to violence as the rest of society, but are more vulnerable to it and its consequences. A key element of the Human Right Education Youth Programme, the activity of "Learning from violence- a Symposium on Youth Policy Responses to Everyday Violence" took place in the European Youth Center Budapest in October 2002. The Symposium brought together youth and social workers, researchers and experts, representatives of NGOs, local and public authorities, politicians and policy-makers. In this report Ingrid Ramberg analyses the issues relates to youth and violence as raised at the Symposium, and presents the recommendations produced.