Information service of the Pontifical Mission Societies since 1927
Bombay (Fides Service) – Indian youth is taking up the challenge to work for peace. “Do you care about the future of humanity, are you ready to work for peace? Are you good at planning and decision making? Are you involved in social service or ready to assume responsibility? Are you creative and motivated? Then you may apply to take part in the first World Youth Peace Summit, at UN regional headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, 23 to 28 October 2004”. This announcement is being circulated in India by the International Association for Human Values (IAHV), which will host a regional meet for World Youth Peace Summit in India next month. The International Association for Human Values (IAHV) was founded in Geneva in 1997; to foster on a global scale deeper understanding of the values that unite us as a human community.
With other NGOs and UN support, IAHV is promoting a World Youth Peace Summit, at which 600 young people from all over the world will talk about building peace, promoting respect for creation, human rights, solutions to conflicts and identify concrete ways for young people to work for peace and universal brotherhood.
WYPS will be a great event of meeting of cultures, traditions, religions and races and a platform for forming young people future leaders in society. Several Catholic associations and movements including the Salesians in India have adhered to the initiative.
In view of World Youth Peace Summit, there will be a regional meeting in India 7 to 9 December 2003 to identify regional problems to put to the meeting and to select young representatives to send to Nairobi. WYPS will be a summit of regional youth delegations from the different continents to discuss questions regarding culture and media, terrorism, politics, technology, spirituality, education and development.
The Summit intends to promote regional projects of education and development in poor areas to make the young people protagonists of associations, mediation of conflicts, insert youth in the world of information and support youth in difficulty and create a framework of collaboration to inegreate governments, international organisations, business sectors and NGOs to work towards sustainable peace and help identify the required resources. (PA) (Fides Service 21/11/2003 lines 36 words 408)
