Violence is easy. No real skill is needed to pick up a knife, hijack a car, go on a shooting spree, throw a pipe bomb, batter a wife and child, rape, murder, or abuse with words. But the way of peace building is much more difficult. There is no time or capacity for spoon feeding. Books and ‘how-to’s’ may provide the theory, but it takes dedication, commitment, time, risk and skill to put it into practice and — in the case of institutional structures — the necessary management support to make it meaningful and real. Cultures of constructive conflict resolution need to be cultivated in organizations, institutions and homes — to become part of the way things are done.

Given this, I see the primary education tasks for the future as follows:

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We need to ensure that teaching young people to approach and deal with conflict in creative and constructive ways should be a core and valued component of their formal and informal education;
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We need to help young people develop broad social literacy and build vocabularies of hope and empowerment in terms of decision making, taking responsibility, skills training, visioning alternatives and making them happen;
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We need to develop inter generational partnerships with young people, to actively engage with them and hear their voices in homes, schools and other institutions and in the media — to listen to their stories, opinions, dreams, fears, needs and frustrations, and to take them seriously. At the same time we need to ask ourselves if there are aspects of cultural and emotional violence involved in the ways in which we listen, or neglect to listen, to what young people are saying;
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We need to challenge the media to talk about the ‘good news’ and to take their social responsibility role in terms of education more seriously;
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Every young person is entitled to the respect of others and to the recognition of their inherent worth and dignity as human beings. With this entitlement comes the responsibility to treat others as we would like to be treated ourselves. But cultivating this mutual respect doesn’t just happen. We need systematic governmental, organizational, institutional, religious, community and media support to commit to making this kind of education happen, and to do what we can as ordinary citizens to ensure that it does.
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We need to encourage young people to develop internal vocabularies of hope and empowerment — to “search for the hero inside themselves,” as the vocal group M People suggest in their song Search. Imagine if all youth could sing those words in their hearts, or the words of the R Kelly song I Believe I Can Fly?

I believe I can fly
I believe I can touch the sky
I believe I can soar
I see me running through that open door
I believe I can fly
‘Cos I believe in me
If I just spread my wings I believe I can fly.
If I can see it
Then I can do it
If I just believe it
There’s nothing to it.

If we don’t encourage our youth to sing this kind of song, we are going to end up with more and more victims of the present and future shock that violence inflicts on our land.

Moses Otunga Foundation is a Child centered Organization registered in Kenya.It exists to improve access to basic needs for vulnerable children and peace building in rural areas and urban slums.

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Yours Sincerely
Governor Jimmy Eddy McAnyango
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