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Prevention in youth work – young people in the tension between different (honor) cultural worlds
Seminar with Emina Šarić
Speaker: Emina Šarić
Date: November 16, 2026
Time: 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Duration: 2 hours (online)
Key areas:
- Working with young people: Family and majority society as a field of tension
- Rigid gender roles as well as patriarchal, traditional and honor-based concepts of masculinity
- Impact of these role models on identity development, conflict behavior and integration
- Prevention and intervention: Best practice approaches
- Presentation and classification of programs such as Heroes, Next Heroes and zuMIR
- Approaches and measures for gender-sensitive and male-focused prevention work
Objectives: To recognize the tension between family traditions and societal values and its significance for the lived reality of young people; to reflect on gender and honor concepts; to expand practical skills through prevention and intervention approaches to promote self-determination, equality, and violence prevention in youth work.
Emina Šarić is an education manager at the Augustinum Private University of Education in Graz and a lecturer at the Graz Training Center for Social Professions. She also leads two violence prevention projects for boys at the Association for Men's and Gender Issues and is a member of the Expert Council for Integration as well as chair of the supervisory board of the Austrian Fund for the Documentation of Religiously Motivated Political Extremism (Documentation Center for Political Islam).
To register: Link