{"id":35370,"date":"2024-07-28T12:08:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T10:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=35370"},"modified":"2024-07-28T12:10:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T10:10:27","slug":"transforming-youth-from-violence-to-champions-of-peace-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=35370","title":{"rendered":"Transforming Youth from Violence to Champions of Peace in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Special to CPNN<\/p>\n

Access Youth Initiative Uganda is implementing a project \u201cAmplifying Community Voices for Sustainable peace in Rwenzori Region\u201d in selected communities of Maliba and Bulembia sub counties in Kasese district. The project aims at promoting reconciliation and social cohesion by reinforcing the resilience of youth indoctrinated along cultural, religious and political lines and their capacity to face hate speech in Kasese district, in South Western Uganda. The project is implemented by Access Youth Initiative Uganda and supported by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations through its Youth Solidarity Fund, 2024 edition.<\/p>\n

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The project also focusses at preventing re-radicalization in a bid to prevent the targeted youth from sliding back into acts of violence. To achieve this, it is built on 3 main components of peace building; mentorship, capacity building and sports.<\/p>\n

The project places youth at the center of its programming by empowering Youth Peace Champions to engage in peace-building sensitization and awareness activities including mobilizing communities through sports activities, dialogue campaigns and peace camps. <\/p>\n

It also involves working with religious, cultural and community leaders through capacity building interventions to work as supportive agents in peace building.<\/p>\n

According to Ibrahim Kakinda, Executive Director of Access Youth Initiative Uganda, the project places the youth and community leaders at the center of decision making \u2013 identifying the \u201cwhat\u201d needs to be done and \u201chow\u201d it should be done through meaningful engagement of young people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Can a culture of peace be achieved in Africa through local indigenous training and participation?<\/a> <\/p>\n

Youth initiatives for a culture of peace, How can we ensure they get the attention and funding they deserve?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Kasese district in the Rwenzori Region of Uganda has witnessed longstanding inter and intra ethnic conflicts and tensions orchestrated by geo-ethno-political, cultural, religious and economic diversities compounded further by the uncontrolled influx of refugees from D.R Congo and Rwanda. These divides have widened the \u201crevenge attitude\u201d leading to formation of violent youth brigades and alliances intensifying community polarization, with a recent example being an attack on Lhubiriha secondary school killing over 37 students in June 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cthe project is implemented in an inclusive and active participatory manner with active participation of youth, women, girls and other actors like community members, community religious and cultural leaders, local government leaders, CSOs, existing community infrastructures for peace, \u2013 applying a \u201cwhole of society\u201d approach of transforming conflicts and promoting and sustaining peace, says Bridget Achaakit, the project coordinator.<\/p>\n

Morris, a \u201cCommunity Peace Mediaor\u201d says the project is now referred to as a model best practice for transforming the lives of youth – especially in conflict and post-conflict contexts and we hope the learnings from the project will make other actors to initiate similar projects in other areas. \u201cMany of us who used to be looked at as perpetrators have transformed from champions of violence to \u2018champions of peace\u2019 and we are trusted as agents of peace in our communities,\u201d
\nAbout Access Youth Initiative Uganda<\/p>\n

Access Youth Initiative Uganda (AYI-Uganda) is a grass root youth-led Non-Governmental Organization fostering a culture of justice, peace and respect for human rights in Uganda.
\nFeel free to reach out: Email: kaksterry@yahoo.com, Link: www.accessyouthuganda.org<\/p>\n

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. . DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION . . . Special to CPNN Access Youth Initiative Uganda is implementing a project \u201cAmplifying Community Voices for Sustainable peace in Rwenzori Region\u201d in selected communities of Maliba and Bulembia sub counties in Kasese district. The project aims at promoting reconciliation and social cohesion by reinforcing the resilience of youth indoctrinated … Continue reading Transforming Youth from Violence to Champions of Peace in Uganda<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,19],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-35370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-democracy","tag-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}