From Violence to Resilience: Positive Transformative Programmes to Grow Young Leaders：Positive Transformative Programmes to Grow Young Leaders

How can young people break out of a vicious cycle of behaviour that harms them and others? This manual outlines a transformative programme that helps young people at risk of violence, or already caught up in violence, change the way they think about themselves and their futures. It is packed with exercises and activities.

Jo Broadwood is an expert on youth and community conflict, with years of experience in the design and development of programmes for young people at risk and training programmes for practitioners. She was, until 2010, part of the leadership team at Leap where she was responsible for action research programmes and trainer and curriculum development. Nic Fine is a founder member of Leap Confronting Conflict. He has been a specialist youth and conflict practitioner for many years and has written a number of publications on this issue. He now lives in South Africa where he is the Director of Hearts of Men – a community mentoring organisation working with young men at risk of violence and gang activity.