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update weekending 16 September 2013
National Youth Development Trust
September 16, 2013
Peace
Barometer workshop
The National
Youth Development Trust (NYDT) conducted a peace barometer workshop
with peace ambassadors on Friday September 13, 2013. The peace ambassadors
are young men and women that were trained by the organisation to
conduct peace-building initiatives in their respective communities
as a way of reducing conflict. They also document human rights violations
and other forms of conflict incidences in their areas. The peace
barometer workshop was therefore aimed at providing a platform for
sharing the various documented incidences, allowing the organisation
to capture them and help inform peace intervention strategies in
the communities.
The peace ambassadors
therefore managed to map a comprehensive environmental scan for
the 13 districts represented in the workshop. They also gave their
assessments of the peace levels in their communities, mainly highlighting
that the main sources of conflict are grievances to do with poor
service delivery, youth unemployment, lack of economic opportunities
for young people, corruption by various government departments and
a somewhat contested
election outcome.
They also managed
to propose interventions based on their analysis of the current
environment and the NYDT will be taking these into consideration
in restructuring its programming to suit the new environment. A
peace barometer paper will also be produced by the NYDT based on
the data collected during the workshop. Peace barometer workshops
inform a survey by the NYDT on peace related issues in its various
areas of operation as a way of maintaining relevant programming
and also coming up with effective advocacy tools.
Visit the National
Youth Development Trust fact
sheet
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