Former Minister Olubanke King-Akerele delivered the keynote addressMonrovia – The Youth Exploring Solution (YES) in collaboration with the Center for Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding (CECPAP) and Accountability Lab conducted a one-day peacebuilding dialogue for 100 diverse young leaders in Montserrado County whose work focuses on fields of peacebuilding, violence prevention, and social cohesion. Representatives from civil society organizations, the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law of the University of Liberia facilitated different sessions. He indicated that peacebuilding, social cohesion, and violence prevention require the collective efforts of everyone to understand that wisdom is better than strength. Presenting on “Conflict Management”, Crawford stressed that young Liberian must seize the opportunity to maintain unending peace. The Youth Peacebuilding Dialogue is a flagship initiative of Youth Exploring Solutions geared towards providing capacity building for youth leaders across Liberia in conflict management and peacebuilding relating to self-awareness, trust building and communication, team building and leadership, social cohesion and peacebuilding, social awareness and social identity, rights and responsibilities, conflict resolution, conflict transformation, active nonviolence action, and vision for Liberia on sustainable peace.

Source: Front Page Africa May 08, 2019 02:03 UTC