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Youth For Peace

Youth Participation Project


Battambang

Newsletter issue I/2009

About Youth For Peace and the Youth Participation Project


Youth for Peace (YFP) is a youth tity and to develop analysis abili- The Youth Participation Project
organization, that aims to bring ties. Through these trainings, focuses on HR and Democracy,
about peace and social justice in youths develop the solidarity, trust, and aims to achieve more partici-
Cambodia through the develop- and condence necessary to work pation of youth in decision-mak-
ment of good role models and ac- together to find solutions for com- ing in their communities and in
tive citizenship of youth who un- munity problems. society. The project actually con-
derstand and practice a culture of Vision nects the most important for-
peace. YFP prepares young people We envision a peaceful, just and mal local decision-making institu-
democratic society where people
for solidarity, leadership, and ac- tions, the Commune Councils, to
have equal access and active partici-
tive citizenship by developing pation towards sustainable develop- the youth. This not only increases
their apacity for decision-making, ment and harmony. the skills and experiences of youth,
by building in them a sense of re- but also enhances the awareness
sponsibility, and by empowering Mission of the Commune Councils of the
Youth for Peace is a local peace NGO
them to act. In workshops using a that works to encourage young peo- value of youth, and the impor-
participatory methodology, sup- ple, especially high school youths, tance and potential of the partic-
plemented by a variety of other to become agents of social change ipation of youth in local decision-
methods, YFP challenges its stu- through training, dialogue and ad- making processes.
vocacy.
dents to discover their own iden-

First training conducted


Mobile Library
On 13th November 2009 the YPP- lifes and analyzed their reasons. In
Training Team held its first work-
shop about non-violence in Ek-
different groups the participants
discussed solutions for all peo-
 The Mobile Library is be-
ing established. In the
period from November to De-
Phnom district, Battambang ple involved in a violent situation. cember, the Training Team pro-
province. 33 young and interest- Thereby they realized that vio- vided 5 times a mobile library in
ed participants joined the work- lence does not only affect the indi- Ek-Phnom district. At a primary
shop and shared their knowledge viduals involved in a certain inci- and a secondary school, as well
and experiences. They reported dent, but society as a whole. as at a public place, about 350
situations of violence in their daily young read the mixture of short-
stories, educational publications,
brochures and entertainment
Left picture: material.
Explaining violence. Background In order to increase the num-
information helped to understand ber of permanent young read-
violence ers YPP will help and advice
schools to build up permanent
libraries on their compounds.
The mobile library will then be
at different places in communi-
Right picture: ties where a lot of people can
The roleplay was fun and build em- reach it.
phaty with victims and committers

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Violence in the Forum The issues
Complying with a survey initial-
ly conducted by the entire Team
which mentioned violence as an
 To make YPP work in Ek
Phnom as effective as
possible, the Advocacy Team
urgent topic the in the communi- first set out to identify the issues
ties, the Advocacy Team organized the youth were most concerned
a Forum on the subject. Under the about. A meeting was conduct-
focus topics “gangsters” and “do- ed at K’dangie Pagoda, to which
mestic violence”, the vice-police youth from three communes
chief of Battambang Province and Above picture: were invited.
the vice-director of the Depart- About 140 youth listened and asked In several fruitful discussion
ment of Women’s Affairs, spoke to Below picure: groups, presentations and brain-
the 140 participants on both the Represantatives provided informa- storms, three subjects were iden-
legal and the de facto side of the tion tified as being the most grievous.
issue. The number of questions According to the youth unem-
was great and the participants ployment, drug abuse and lack
showed very apt at answering of education formed the core
questions posed by the facilitators of most problems faced by the
– added by some remarks of the re- communities.
spective speaker.
Youth Network
 The Advocacy Team aims
to establish a network
consisting of active youths from
International Human Rights Day 3 communes in Ek Phnom Dis-
trict. This allows implementing
posters about human rights to
the youths’ ideas on a local lev-
the people. Afterwards, the mem-
el, in cooperation with the com-
ber of the district council hold a
mune councils, but also pro-
speech about human rights.
vides space for an exchange of
In order to spread wishes, more
ideas between youths from dif-
than 100 balloons were led into
ferent communes. Although
the air. From both organizations
only a small number of very ac-
YPP and YCC three volunteers
tive youths joined the estab-
formed a group in order to debate
Ballons spread wishes lishing meeting, there are great
about human rights. They pointed
Recently, on 10th December 2009, hopes for more to join in order
out that the International Human
which is the International Hu- to form a thriving network. YPP
Rights Day is an important day. Ev-
man Rights Day, YPP cooperated will help the youths in the estab-
eryone should know about the hu-
with YCC (Youth Council Cambo- lishing process and provide them
man rights to prevent discrimina-
dia), another NGO working on top- with capacity buildings to further
tion, racism and violation of the
ics like human rights and good their skills at organizing and be-
rights. At the end of the forum, the
governance. Together they con- coming active themselves.
moderator raised questions to the
ducted a forum in Ek Phnom High
school. There were a lot of youths
youths in order to remember the ■■Published by:
most important points that were Youth For Peace
joining the forum. A member of mentioned during the day. Youth Participation Project
the district council, the commune By celebrating the anniversary of
chief, the military police and some the Human Rights Day, the par- ■■Contact:
teachers were invited. ticipants could understand more Phay Piseth
After a short introduction, all the about the topic and help together Project Officer
participants walked around the to create a better future. (855) 17 817 775
village holding up and sharing yfp_btb@yfpcambodia.org

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