Social media can be used as a tool for prevention when facing terrorist threats or combating radicalization and extremism. The presentation discussed how can youngsters take advantage of their knowledge of social media to foster this preventive role; how can young people participate in designing and implementing awareness raising and prevention campaigns; and how can the main social networks contribute to spread inclusive messages and to counter radicalization.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 34929757The chapter examines the actual legal framework related to unaccompanied minor migrants and implementation of children’s’ rights and their best interests in the reception, protection, asylum and return procedures. Examining age assessment procedures, unaccompanied minors’ survivals strategies and their everyday life in reception centres the contributors point to the discrepancy between the states’ obligations to take the best interest of the child into account when dealing with unaccompanied minor migrants, and the lack of formal procedures of best interest determination in practice.
F.30 Professional assessment of the situation
COBISS.SI-ID: 1539560132While conventional political participation of youth is giving signs of significant decline in many OSCE participating States, other findings indicate that youth continue to be interested in politics, asking for new forms of political participation and the ability to identify those issues most relevant to them as well as the most effective tools to exert their influence. The presentation discussed how and to what extent, are young men and women able to promote new forms of political participation as well as how ready and open are our democratic institutions in embracing new direct and indirect forms of political participation for youth.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 35512669