Commonwealth Secretariat
  1. CYP Home
  2. About CYP
    1. What is CYP?
    2. What is unique about CYP?
    3. How does CYP work?
    4. Meet the Team
  3. What's New
    1. CYP Pan-Commonwealth News
    2. CYP Africa News
    3. CYP Asia News
    4. CYP Caribbean
    5. CYP Pacific
    6. CYP Picture Stories
  4. What we do
    1. Youth Enterprise and Sustainable Livelihoods (YESL)
    2. Governance, Development and Youth Networks (GDYN)
    3. Youth Work Education and Training (YWET)
    4. Youth Empowerment
    5. Development Index
    6. Project Hope: Northern Uganda Youth Development Centre
    7. Young Ambassadors of Positive Living Programme
  5. Documents
    1. Intercom
    2. Commonwealth Youth Development
    3. Sixth Commonwealth Youth Ministers Meeting
    4. Youth Participation Toolkits
  6. Ministerial Meetings
    1. 7CYMM
    2. 6CYMM
  7. Events
  8. Regional Centres
    1. Africa
    2. Asia
    3. Caribbean
    4. Pacific
  9. Youth Caucus
    1. Africa Regional Youth Caucus
    2. Asia Regional Youth Caucus
    3. Caribbean Regional Youth Caucus
    4. Pacific Regional Youth Caucus
  10. Subscribe
    1. Subscription Confirmation

Skills- building workshop on ‘young people and women in peace-building’

18 April 2008

A two-day skills building workshop on ‘Young people and Women in Peace-building’ will take place on 25 and 26 April in Colombo

The vulnerability of young people and women is well known in any country grappling with conflict and war situations. Both young people and women are too vast a resource to be wasted as they possess enormous energy as well as innovative thinking to contribute significantly in peace-building processes. With this rationale, a two day skill building workshop on ‘Young people and Women in Peace-building’ will be organised on 25 and 26 April in Colombo in which Commonwealth youth representatives and women’s representatives will participate. This workshop is being organised in close collaboration with the Gender section of the Commonwealth Secretariat. The objectives of the workshop are:

  • To provide young people with an opportunity to have a framework on conflict and peace building so that they deal with conflict peacefully
  • To discuss and understand the role of young people and women in peace-building processes so that they will be sensitive to the needs of these target groups
  • To provide an opportunity to young people and woman to envisage their role as peace-builders in their respective communities through the transformation of values, thoughts, attitudes and behaviour

During the workshop, peace-building analysis, peace-building processes, conflict analysis, conflict handling mechanisms, conflict analysis tools, peace-building skills, democracy and social inclusion and Civil Paths to Peace – Respect and Understanding will be discussed.

It is hoped that youth and women’s representatives will be able to gain more technical knowledge, competence and skills in peace building thereby choosing to be ‘’proactive’’ in peace related initiatives and campaign in their respective areas of work and influence.

Download:

Provisional AgendaProvisional Agenda

 

Share this page
About this