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Children and Youth March Forward with Peace Building in Africa
As the GNRC's Peace Education Programme in Tanzania Comes of Age
TOWARD PEACE CULTURE

 
March for Peace: GNRC Peace Club leaders consisting of children and youth lead other children and
youth in Zanzibar in a Peace March Parade during the 2005 Zanzibar International Film Festival

 
 


 

Now entering its third year, the Education for Peace Pilot Programme promises to be a success story of its kind in Tanzania. By the end of September 2005, about 40 Peace Clubs bringing together more than 500 children and youth in Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar, had been formed. These Peace Clubs have helped to create important avenues and spaces in which children and youth discuss peace and conflict issues. The children and youth come from diverse backgrounds, including from the two main faith traditions in Tanzania - Islam and Christianity. In Zanzibar, the scene of a bloody post-election violence in 2000 that claimed many lives, children and youth have established 15 Peace Clubs while in Dar es Salaam, there are about 25 Peace Clubs, all actively participating in peace building.

During the International Day of Peace on 21st September, GNRC Children and Youth Peace Clubs in Dar es Salaam were invited by UNICEF to attend a launch of a book drawn by children called "Voices of Peace". More Peace Clubs were later invited to attend the exhibition at Alliance Francois. Husna Abdul of Vunja Ukimya Peace Club attended the World Youth Congress in Scotland in June where she attended training on media and networked with other young journalists. She came back to Dar es Salaam with valuable experience in the media which she shared with other the Peace Club members.

In July 2005, over fifty representatives from the Peace Clubs in Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar converged in Zanzibar for a four-day Peace Camp. The Peace Camp took place in the Zanzibar famous UNESCO's declared world heritage site - The Stone Town, during the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF). During the Peace Camp, the GNRC children and youth were joined by other children in the Island to participate in a 'March for Peace' which started and ended at the Peace Museum in the historical Stone Town. They were received by the Zanzibar Regional Commissioner Mr. Abdalla Mwinyi. The Peace Camp theme was 'Peace Starts With Me'. Proposals on how peace will be strengthened in Tanzania and Africa at large were discussed by the youth and children. The Peace Club leaders were introduced to children's rights and responsibilities, ethics and peace building among other issues.

Over 60 Imams, Pastors, Bishops and other Christian and Muslim Religious Leaders came together for a three-day workshop on Civic-Peace Education in Dar es Salaam, from 22nd to 24th March 2005. The Workshop brought together Imams and Christian and other Muslim religious leaders in Tanzania to discuss ways in which they can ensure that the 2005 General Elections would be peaceful. The Imams, Christian and Muslim religious leaders participated in a three day workshop whose theme was "Empowering Religious Leaders in Enhancing Free, Fair and Peaceful 2005 Tanzania Elections". Issues that were addressed at the workshop included: role of a citizen in the nation, democratic values and principles, enhancing good governance, principles of responsible government and the role of religious leaders in enhancing good governance. The workshop was done from 22nd to 24th March 2005.

Workshop for Peace: Representatives of various GNRC Peace Clubs from Dar es Salaam at the UNICEF's Information and Resource Centre in Dar es Salaam discussing way forward during one of the peace workshops organized to form GYOPEN

Under the same programme, four children's and youth's workshops were carried out. The children's and youth's workshops which were conducted at UNICEF in the months of February and March brought together the Peace Clubs in Dar es Salaam region to among other things; create awareness to the youth and children about politics and politicians during the electioneering period; bring together leaders from the main religions in Tanzania to encourage their faithful to avoid violence or activities that may lead to violence in pre and post-election time and to sensitize the youth and the children about their roles in society during the time of campaigns leading to elections and thereafter. The children and youth were introduced to various subjects including role of children/youth as citizens, democratic values and principles, good governance, principles of responsible government, electoral legislation, electoral process and voter rights and obligations.

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