Events

UNESCO and the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution of Nigeria, through its National Peace Academy, will organize a Youth, Peacebuilding and Leadership Training Towards 2019 Elections in Nigeria, from 16 to 20 April 2018.

This five-day intensive course will gather 50 participants: young leaders from the pilot North-Central geopolitical zone, and covering seven States (Benue, Federal Capital Territory, Kogi, Kwara, Nasarawa, Niger and Plateau).

The training will offer participants the following:

• Enhance knowledge on concepts and terminologies in peacebuilding and leadership;

• Enhance leadership skills to analyse and utilize various tools for peacebuilding;

• Increase social skills and personal development and initiate processes for active participation in society;

• Develop public policies needed to produce significant changes at local, national and global levels;

• Design and implement innovative programmes that effectively initiate and sustain needed services at the grassroots level;

• Develop skills to influence youths towards a “Culture of Peace”;

• Create a vanguard of conflict mediators and negotiators in States.

This pilot course will contribute to the grooming of a new generation of youth leaders and influencers with skills and mechanisms to understand and mainstream peacebuilding and leadership, and to instill in them proper outlook towards non-violent approaches to conflict, a key step ahead of presidential and general elections in Nigeria, to be held in February 2019.

Links:

UNESCO Youth Programme

International Decade for the Rapprochement of Cultures (2013-2022)

Theme page:

Culture of Peace and Non-violence

Democracy and Global Citizenship

Learning to Live Together

Social Transformations

Partnerships

URL:

https://en.unesco.org/events/youth-peacebuilding-and-leadership-training-towards-2019-elections-nigeria