Nonformality

Category: Participation

  • Youth Protests in France

    Hundred thousands of young people are protesting against the so-called First Employment Contract (Contrat Première Embauche — CPE) allowing employers to lay off under-26s without explanation within the first two years of a contract. Linking back to what Alana wrote in November 2005, when the riots began in Clichy-sous-Bois, the International Herald Tribune went back…

  • Social city, citizenship and hre

    Peter Lauritzen gave a lecture on “The social city as a space for citizenship in human rights education for young people” at the Start-Up Conference of the Entimon Project run by the Centre Francais de Berlin. Get the pdf of the lecture.

  • Participation revisited

    Youth participation needs to be more than just a phrase and institutional practise has to take research into account, argues Peter Lauritzen.