6-6-2019 Het Jongerennetwerk van het International Peace Bureau organiseert een groot internationaal congres voor jongeren die bij willen bijdragen aan een wereld die vreedzamer, rechtvaardiger en duurzamer is. Het congres vindt plaats van 20 t/m 22 september in Berlijn. De leiding is in handen van jongeren.

IPB Youth Network Conference - Transform! Towards a Culture of Peace

Organizers

IPB Youth Network, IPB in partnership with ITUC and ITUC Youth

With the support of DFG-VK, International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES), Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung (tbc)

Date

20-22 September 2019

Location

Technical University Berlin, Building of Mathematics, Strasse des 17. Juni 136, Berlin, Germany

Introduction

In the 21st century, we experience multiple wars, destruction and injustice. Challenges and problems are becoming more visible at both small and large scales, ranging from threats with the potential to end human life itself to diverse destruction of the environment and other foundations of life. Militarism and injustice drive these potentials on multiple levels. Aspects of societies - i.e. lack of democracy, distribution of wealth, gender inequalities or the belief in infinite profit maximization - are at the base of many challenges and problems.

Young people are agents of change and need to discuss and exchange on these matters much more. We want to organize to amplify our voices and to engage much more in peace processes and struggles for societal progress.

The world youth congress is a youth-led congress, contributing to the vision of a world in peace and without war and to the vision of a more peaceful, just and sustainable future. The idea of the youth congress derives from the preparatory process of the youth gathering of the IPB World Congress "Disarm! For a Climate of Peace - Creating an Action Agenda". Some of the discussions of this Congress as well as of an international working meeting on the weekend of the international day of peace 2018 will be continued at the world youth congress.

The congress will focus on transformation towards a more peaceful, just and sustainable future. This will be achieved by informal learning to develop a sense of personal responsibility, by developing plans for concrete actions in day-to-day life as well as in societal processes. The Youth Congress will engage youth from various different backgrounds and with varying perspectives and approaches to peace, justice and sustainability as well as diverse experts and lays from different fields related to the Congress' issues.

Objectives

The overall objective of the world youth congress is to build bridges and foster discussions among youth with different perspectives on and approaches to peace, justice and sustainability alongside non-youth stakeholders active in the peace movement and in the various fields. Voices of youth against war and for peace should be increasingly and strongly heard. Among others, the specific objectives are:

- To speak out and act against war, militarism, injustice, and planetary destruction.
- To equip young people with the confidence and competencies to build peace, sustainability, and justice.
- To bring young people into regional national and international decision-making processes.
- To facilitate intergenerational and interdisciplinary approaches to a global culture of peace, justice and sustainability.

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Bron: WRI