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2011 Youth for Peace workshop held in Sri Lanka!
Tuesday 10th January 2012 - 17:18The 2011 Youth for Peace workshop was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from 8 to 12th December. Hosted by the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement and the GNRC Secretariat for South Asia, the event gathered a total of 18 GNRC youth from around the world. Represented countries included: Argentina, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, India, Israel, Jordan, Nepal, Pakistan, Somaliland, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Uganda. For five days participants got to deepen their understanding of the current challenges affecting children, and to share their experiences and views on how they can be addressed. The theme of the workshop was:“YOUth in interfaith cooperation: ending poverty affecting children”.
Held annually since 2009, the ‘Youth for Peace Workshop’ is an international capacity-building event for active GNRC youth aimed at enhancing your knowledge and understanding on the issues affecting children around the world while further developing your leadership skills.
This year’s workshop offered a new opportunity for GNRC youth from around the world to build their capacity as youth leaders and reinforce their role in the network. Building upon GNRC’s priority areas, the focus of the 2011 Youth for Peace workshop was on poverty and the related themes that will be addressed in next year’s GNRC Fourth Forum.
The programme focused on the topic of poverty, addressing 3 key dimensions: unequal distribution of resources; violence and war; and poor governance. All throughout the workshop the youth explored and discussed the meaning and value of interfaith cooperation when addressing poverty affecting children. Training was complemented with a session to introduce the educational manual “Learning to Live Together” and a one-day field-visit to a local community project in the southwest of Sri Lanka.
The methodology used during the sessions was based on the Learning to Live Together programme, using experiential learning and encouraging active participation and sharing by all participants.
By holding this year’s workshop in Sri Lanka participants got a unique opportunity to experience first-hand the need for and value in working together across religious and cultural boundaries to improve the reality children live in.
Learn more: Read the daily program!
This year’s workshop offered a new opportunity for GNRC youth from around the world to build their capacity as youth leaders and reinforce their role in the network. Building upon GNRC’s priority areas, the focus of the 2011 Youth for Peace workshop was on poverty and the related themes that will be addressed in next year’s GNRC Fourth Forum.
The programme focused on the topic of poverty, addressing 3 key dimensions: unequal distribution of resources; violence and war; and poor governance. All throughout the workshop the youth explored and discussed the meaning and value of interfaith cooperation when addressing poverty affecting children. Training was complemented with a session to introduce the educational manual “Learning to Live Together” and a one-day field-visit to a local community project in the southwest of Sri Lanka.
The methodology used during the sessions was based on the Learning to Live Together programme, using experiential learning and encouraging active participation and sharing by all participants.
By holding this year’s workshop in Sri Lanka participants got a unique opportunity to experience first-hand the need for and value in working together across religious and cultural boundaries to improve the reality children live in.
Learn more: Read the daily program!
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