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Posted: July 28 2006,16:29 by mterano from INTERNATIONAL - Mayumi Terano
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1. a) If funds were available, what youth activities related to a CoP would you like to do as an individual?
This refers to the answer of organization below
b) What non-financial support do you need to do these activities?
This refers to the answer of organization below
c) If funds were available, what youth activities related to a CoP would your organization like to do?
If
we have funding we will increase our existing programs regarding Peace
Education, Leadership, Youth Participation, Peace Book Publication for
young people and other programs such as exchange, exposure, and support
youth initiatives in schools, orphanages, and communities, and
conciliation project on Khmer Rouge Tribunal Outreach. In general we
provide workshop trainings on self development, conflict resolution,
culture of peace, leadership and facilitation skills, and events, and
conferences.
Youth for Peace (YFP) provides peace training,
conflict resolution, and leadership for young people from second and
high schools. YFP builds the capacity of youth to design and implement
peacebuilding projects and most importantly, promotes solidarity by
encouraging them to do it together; first by analyzing the conflict,
then mutually identifying justice issues, and lastly thinking
creatively how their cooperative efforts can help overcome barriers to
justice and peace. It envisions a society where people are committed to
practice the balance of spiritual and material value that leads to a
culture of peace. YFP assists young people in receiving spiritual
education and encourages them to be active in building a culture
of peace for themselves, their families, and their society and aims to
bring about a society of peace and social justice in Cambodia through
development of good role models and active citizenship of youth who
understand and practice a culture of peace. Please visit our website:
www.yfpcambodia.org
d) What non-financial support does your organization need for CoP activities?
We
need experts, who can help with monitoring of peace building program,
fundraising, public relations, peace books, and peace toolkits for
young people to learn and peace practitioners to implement peace and
conflict resolution projects.
2. a) What changes in youth policies do you think the government/leadership in your country should make to promote a CoP?
In
Cambodia we need to develop youth policies. Youth for Peace and other
youth organizations has tried to gather information from youth in
different provinces including towns and cities regarding youth issues
and youth needs to put into a draft of youth policies. Now we have
formed a working group to promote national youth policy so that we
could have it passed by National Assembly. We are trying to talk with
Youth Department of Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. We stuck
with Youth Department due to lack of funding to set up dialogues on
this policy. We hope that our working group can make it happen. If we
had we could include some elements of culture of peace in our youth
policies.
b) What CoP youth activities/initiatives do you think the UN should do?
The
UN should look at the existing peace building program working with
youth for youth and engage them in network to share information,
programs, capacity, and leadership so that each country can
strengthen their peacebuilding programs for young people. Youth for
Peace welcomes any networking, exchange, and internship from people
around the world.
OPTIONAL QUESTIONS
3. Do you have any
suggestions or recommendations for improving youth participation in CoP
activities on any levels (UN, government, civil society)?
In the UN level:
UN
should support local NGOs, which are working for peace building,
conflict resolution, conciliation, and leadership for young people both
technical, spiritual, material, and financial
In the government level:
The
government should include peace education in school curricula, develop
peace book in their own language for young people and children, and
especially create youth policy that promotes culture of peace.
In civil society level:
Civil
society should set up programs that encourage young people and children
to actively participate in peace building based on 4 dimension of
social change – personal, relational, structural, and cultural. Civil
society should create programs that provide safe space for young people
to discuss about their personal and social issues, so that they can
identify problems by themselves and find practical solutions to the
issues happening around them.
4. What could be done to improve/ensure transparency and flow of information in promoting the CoP?
We
could have committees that can have regular meetings for 2 times a year
or annually and create secretariat that share and provide information
to all members of network.
5. To ensure the best possible benefit of a UN Voluntary Fund for youth and CoP, how should it be managed/administered?
- Develop procedures and standards for network members to report and document what they have done monthly, quarterly, and annual
- Join together to develop strategic planning for long term program
- Set up secretariat in each country to monitor the programs that members can have regular meeting for example every 3 month
- Set up video conference to share the work and lesson learns from each country
6. How can youth not yet involved in CoP activities be reached and motivated?
- develop outreach program through schools and communities in rural areas
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use media to disseminate programs for example spot, drama, and other
youth activities related to the culture of peace program or peace
building program
- increase programs, which impact the most on young
people to change thinking, behavior, and attitude from negative to
positive and provide leadership as an agent of peaceful social change
so that they are able to continue and apply those peace building or
culture of peace program within their communities
7. a) Which other organizations do you know of, that work for a CoP?
Khmer Youth Association, Women Peace Maker, Youth Resource Development Program, Cambodian Youth Council
b) Would you be willing to contact them or may we contact them with the questionnaire? Please specify.
I will contact them and send this questionnaire to fill out and hope they may send them to you
8. My response to this questionnaire is my personal opinion organisation’s opinion
Name of organization: Youth for Peace
Address: #109 AB, Street 261/192, Sangkat Toekla-ak 3, Khan Tuolkork, Phnom Penh - Cambodia
Contact Person: Mr. Long Khet
E-mail: director_yfp@online.com.kh
Telephone and fax: (855-23) 881 346
(Permitted to quote, phone conversation on 8/6/06)
Edited by mterano on Aug. 07 2006,19:23
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