Sri Lanka youth Parliament working towards peace building

COLOMBO:Sri Lanka Youth Parliament (SLYP) conducted a three-day residential workshop on skills for peace from February 16 to 18 for its Action Partners coming from all over Sri Lanka at the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (BCIS). Youth from all districts including the North and East were present at the workshop.

The objective of the workshop was to encourage the youth of Sri Lanka to actively participate in the peace building efforts.

Sri Lanka Youth Parliament is a project of BCIS that aims at empowering the youth of Sri Lanka through the participation of the decision making process of the country. Youth Activists at SLYP strongly believe that they can be the strong advocates of peace.

They are concerned about their colleagues who go through hardships due to the ongoing war and call for an end to the violence in the country.

The workshop did not end with gaining skills for peace, but the action areas were devised for them to engage in the future. Among them are street dramas, cultural programmes, peace through sports, awareness programmes in schools, youth exchange programmes within regions, music albums, and peace fashion shows.

Youth participated were very much enthusiastic in using the Information Technology in peace building activities.

They created a Bolg group for SLYP for the Action Partners to keep their ideas on peace to be shared among each other.