Gjilan, February 14, 2019

Democracy Plus (D+) has organized a focus group with youth of the region of Gjilan to discuss about the content of the draft toolkit and what youth would like to see embedded in the toolkit. The toolkit among others provides information about youth and dangers that may come from radicalization, how do youth understand it, how to deal with it and so on. In relation to the content as well as the design of the toolkit, participants have provided a few good suggestions on how to improve it, for instance: having a dedicated place where people can tell their personal stories anonymously, where to call for help in case they have a problem or face a radicalized person (such as contact numbers of referral mechanisms) and so on. Youth were told that the toolkit will be further developed and be presented at a later stage in each region including Gjilan. There were 9 people participating to the workshop (5F and 4 M) of ages between 15 and 24 years old.