NCIC urges the youth to fully embrace culture of non-violence
By Dickson Odhiambo
June 16, 2021
NCIC urges the youth to fully embrace culture of non-violence
The youth across the country have been told to fully embrace
the culture of non-violence as the country approaches the 2022 General Elections and beyond.
The National Cohesion and Integration Commission {NCIC} says
it endeavors for the inclusivity of the youth in most of its program across the
country.
Addressing the press today at Tom Mboya Labour College in
Kisumu during the Kenya National Commission on UNESCO Youth workshop on
Culture, Heritage and Cohesion, NCIC Commissioner Eng Philip Okundi says the
youth are real positive change agents in the face of conflict.
He says the youth across the country need to cultivate the
culture of non-violence, respect for the rule of law and tolerance of divergent
opinions.
He says they have a greater role to play in peace building and
conflict resolution, adding that some youth who have been conflict perpetrators
have now turned to be peace ambassadors showing that they are now real agents
of positive change in the society.
The Commissioner has hinted that they institution has
developed a road map to peaceful General Election that puts the youth at the
center of ensuring that the country undergoes through a peaceful polls.
Okundi says the Commission has embarked on creation of Peace
{Amani} Clubs which are used in the promotion of peaceful co-existence in the
institutions of learning across the country.
“The goal of Amani Clubs is to promote appreciation of
diversity, peaceful co-existence and dispute resolutions among students,”
Okundi says in a speech he read to the participants.
He says the clubs also aims at reducing conflict among students
through peaceful dispute resolutions, mediation and entrenching peace education
activities in the schools.
“The Amani club now has more than 29,000 students across the
country with over 13,000 representation of boys and over 16,000 girls and it is
currently in more than 600 learning institutions across the country,” Okundi
adds.
The Commissioner adds that the Commission has managed to
promote peace through the Amani clubs by engaging the stakeholders in sports
tournaments, clean-up activities, dialogue forums, community services among
other diverse engagements.
“During such engagements, the youth are able to appreciate
and respect diversity by interacting with persons from different backgrounds
and values that will transcend time are passed to the youth and in total culture
of peace is established.
He urges the UNESCO/KNATCOM to consider partnering with the Commission
to strengthen and support Amani clubs in order to realize the fruits of
reducing conflict among students and entrenching peace education activities in
schools across the country.
Commissioner Dorcas Kedogo says there is real need to end the Culture of Conflict during electioneering period.
she says the Commission is preparing the youth to ensure that there is peaceful co-existence ahead of the next year's General Election.
" We are preparing the youth ahead of the next year's polls to know that NCIC needs a cohesive country before, during and after the polls," Kedogo says.
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