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Raise Awareness of European Citizenship
Proposal: raise awareness of European citizenship and to encourage active European citizenship among young people

Implementation: 2017 to 2019

Call: Erasmus+ Youth Key Action 2 – KA205 – Strategic partnership for youth

Type of Action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Budget: 89 975,00€

Keywords: raise awareness, active citizenship, young people

Objective: The project activities refer to all interventions in the formal school system and in non-formal learning contexts carried out by youth organisations, based on non-formal education and learning methods in order to raise awareness of European citizenship and to encourage active European citizenship among young people. It aims to provide voluntary young youth workers with the right set of skills and material to design and perform themselves activities directed at young people from primary, secondary and vocational education and training schools.

Partners:
- JEF Europe
- Young Educators – European Network
- JEF France
- JEF Malta
- JEF Germany
2016-11-04
Exploring the Climate Change, Migration and Conflict Nexus

According to the authors of this study, the potential link between climate change, migration, and conflict has been discussed and is increasingly viewed by policy makers as a security issue.

However, considerable uncertainty remains regarding the role that climate variability and change play among the many drivers of migration and conflict.

So, the main objective of this paper became to explore the potential pathways linking climate change, migration and increased risk of conflict.

They review existing literature and explore the potential pathways, breaking the problem into two components: the links between climate change and migration, and those between migration and conflict.

Findings reveal a wide range of views on the importance of climate change as a driver of migration and conflict, and it is argued that future research should look beyond a single linear pathway and consider multiple mechanisms through which climate change may exacerbate conflict.

The article is concluded by proposing five guiding questions to support further research on the climate – migration – conflict nexus.

Learn more about this study here: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13040443

Reference

Burrows, K., & Kinney, P. L. (2016). Exploring the Climate Change, Migration and Conflict Nexus. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 13(4), 443

2016-04-22
Climate Change, Human Rights, and Social Justice

The environmental and health consequences of climate change are explored in this paper, reiterating how they profoundly affect human rights and social justice, with disproportionate impacts on low-income countries and vulnerable populations within high-income countries.

It is noticed how environmental changes such as rising temperatures, altered precipitation patterns, extreme weather events, and sea-level rise threaten agricultural production, access to safe water, and worker productivity, and are forcing many people to leave uninhabitable or uncultivatable land.

Climate change also generates serious health impacts, including heat-related illness, vector-borne and waterborne diseases, respiratory disorders, malnutrition, mental health problems, and increased violence. Together, these environmental and health effects threaten civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights, including the rights to life, health, food, water, shelter, security, and culture.

The most vulnerable groups include poor and marginalized populations, women, children, older adults, people with disabilities, and those living in climate-affected regions. Globally, low-income countries—despite contributing least to greenhouse gas emissions—are disproportionately affected and have fewer resources to adapt.

In conclusion, the authors hypothesize on how climate adaptation and mitigation strategies must be designed to protect human rights, promote social justice, and avoid deepening existing inequalities.

Learn more about this article here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aogh.2015.08.008

Reference

Levy, B. S., & Patz, J. A. (2015). Climate Change, Human Rights, and Social Justice. Climate Change, Global Health and Human Rights, 81(3), 310–322

2015-11-27
Climate Justice Without Freedom: Assessing Legal and Political Responses to Climate Change and Forced Migration

As storm surges, flooding, heatwaves, and prolonged drought, as ever more regular features of life under deteriorating climate conditions, are unmistakably violent, and their effects on the lives of vulnerable human populations and ecosystems across the world are devastating.

At the same time, a legal order that denies the victims of such ecological persecution a safe haven, no matter how great its use of force (e.g., detention, arrest, forced return) cannot, by definition, be violent. This assumption is challenged in this paper.

It argues that legal instruments are increasingly used to exclude those displaced by climatic conditions and to deny them sufficient normative status to ensure their safety.

The author calls for a new critical normative understanding of the relationship between climate change, violence, justice, and law, an approach that would reassess the democratic justifications for existing policies and reaffirm the legal and political status of climate-displaced people as equal members of the international community.

Learn more about this paper here: https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431015579967

Reference

Skillington, T. (2015). Climate justice without freedom: Assessing legal and political responses to climate change and forced migration: Assessing legal and political responses to climate change and forced migration. European Journal of Social Theory, 18(3), 288-307

2015-04-22