The Ministry of National Co-Existence, Dialogue and Official Languages, University of Jaffna, University of Visual and Performing Arts , Ministries of Education in Northern, North Central, Eastern, Central, Western and Southern Provinces together with Sri Lanka Development Journalist Forum (SDJF) are organizing National Youth Summit 2018 under the theme of “Dialogue for sustainable peace and development schedule to be held from 20th -21st April at BMICH and University of Visual and Performing Arts respectively.
The organizers are expecting more than 250 youths from across the country from all the ethnic and marginalized groups to come together, network, strengthen their role in peace building in Sri Lanka. To facilitate smooth discussion and dialogue among youth, several interactive sessions, workshops, exhibition and speeches are lined up on the summit’s thematic areas. The Summit will be focusing on specific thematic areas such as Youth inclusion in SDG agenda, Youth and non-violence, Youth and social change, Youth in community development, Youth inclusion in national dialogue, Youth, social justice and equality, Youth, social media and hate speech, National Policy for youth inclusive peace-building and Youth in transitional justice process.
The summit is to create a platform for youth to network and strengthen their role in peace building. In 2015, the SDJF organized its first National Youth Summit, themed ‘Capturing local voices and strengthening democracy’ which serves as the precursor to the current event.
There has never been a better time than now to bridge the gap and encourage those with passion for peace building within the youth, where 54.1% of this largely monolingual population has said that they never had been interacting with a person from another ethnic group as a close friend. (National Human Development Report 2014)
Keeping this in mind, the two day summit aims at creating a common space for the peace loving youth to strengthen their network through various innovative and creative sessions. Among highlighted sessions, the short-film screening, photography exhibition and the series of training workshops can be specially noted. The youth will be able to collaborate, participate and conduct experience sharing and networking sessions. Parallel to these events, the NYS2018 will host training sessions which are more focused on the practical aspects of youth leadership in peace building and related topics.
The Sri Lankan famous resource persons and trainers are invited to conduct these sessions.
If any person or organization interested to share their working experience with above themes, or if you have any interesting idea to promote peace and development in Sri Lanka are invited to submit your short summary in 250 words to NYS2018@LDJF.org. For more information please visit http://www.ldjf.org/youth-summit or facebook/sdjf.
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