The project Peace & Love Vector represents an ambition to build a metaphorical link across geo — political borders, cultural differences, formal disciplines and imbalance of experience. The aim of the project is empowering youth leaders and youth workers in the field of preventing extremism and radicalization focusing on young people with migrant background through exchange of practices and experiences between partners' organizations from the EU and the Eastern Partnership countries. 

The organizations involved in Peace & Love Vector are:

1. Armenian Progressive Youth (Armenia);

2. Eesti People to People (Estonia);

3. More Mosaic (Sweden);

4. Center for European Initiative (Ukraine). 

Partners of this project agreed that youth leaders, workers and representatives of civil society can play an important role for an action response to the refugee crisis and radicalization as its main consequence. There are many examples when active citizens have gone beyond their limits filling the gap left by national and regional authorities and proven they have got capacity to be engaged and support men, women, young people and children who seek safety in Europe. Such positive cases must be learned, analysed and multiplied.

Rising extremism derives from rising fear and polarization within the society, leading to more separation instead of integration and ultimately to more extremism. The main problem of Islamic extremism in urban areas in Europe nowadays seems to be not the extremization of Islam, but the “Islamification” of extremism: grievances coming from different sources (lack of jobs, personal problems, racial targeting) can be channeled into violent religion—based extremism. Therefore what is needed is a “a human—centred approach, one that starts from within.”