15 October 2015: Global Peace Youth facilitated an outreach forum on peace at the University of Nairobi. The forum attracted 30 1st Year students and members of the Peace and Conflict club who have specialized in Peace and Conflict Management studies GPY trained the youth in leadership development and is to open up internship opportunities for students with relevant training.
As first years’ the students are vulnerable of getting into wrong peer influence. The forum acted as a platform to learn best practices from others and also offered guidance on how to achieve ones dreams through having a realistic vision and consistency in what they envision.
“Our program guides young people on how to be leaders in their own lives through different education initiatives. We advocate for the greater good. In our own understanding we believe that this can only be achieved through having ownership in the different facets of life and working as a team to achieve different objectives,” reiterated Mr. Arthur Wasonga, the Director of Global Peace Youth.
Through GPY the students will receive more training on leadership development on return for their second semester.
“We need your programs to address issues like ethnic and religious differences and eventually tackle radicalization of our fellow students into militia groups. We are grateful to have this opportunity and hope to be trans formative leaders by the end of our engagement with you,” said Johnson Barasa, the chairperson the Peace Students Department.
The students pledged to embrace the program. They also proposed to initiate a program called “Slum Experience” that would entail interacting directly with residents from informal settlements to enable them understand how perpetrators of violence live and think.
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