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Youth at The Heart of Peace Work
Building peace means contemplating a peaceful future, thinking about better ways for the peoples of a community to live together, initiating processes to address the sources of conflict, analysing past grievances and implementing actions for more stability and justice. Can we build the future without youth? This brochure addresses the role of African youth in peace work, the hurdles and sources of potential.
Young people very often find themselves in the centre of conflicts, either as desperate perpetrators of violence, as the pawns of power-hun- gry manipulators, or as members of an armed group as a means to make a living. We live in a context that promotes violence. The inequalities in society, the discriminations, tribalism, racism, fear and hostility towards certain groups are factors that threaten peace.
The CPS networks in Africa place particular emphasis on working with young people. You may already have read articles about peace work by and with young people in other publications in the "Building Peace" series.
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