{"id":214,"date":"2020-02-05T11:56:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T11:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/events\/?p=214"},"modified":"2020-05-13T14:58:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T14:58:07","slug":"call-for-contributions-youth-building-peace-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/2020\/02\/05\/call-for-contributions-youth-building-peace-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Contributions: &#8220;Youth Building Peace in Nigeria&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout the world, more than 600 million young people live in fragile and conflict affected societies according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)report published in 2016. Today, thousands of youth lose their lives from several conflict and violence happening around the globe as a result of issues of politics, economy and race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While\nsome have argued about the level of youth participation in violence and\ncriminality resulting in a number of negative labels, stereotypes and problematic\nprogramming responses which ultimately limits young people\u2019s agency, there are\ngrowing evidences to show that young people have actually been involved and\nremain an untapped resource for sustainable peace and development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nadoption of the United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 2250 on\nyouth, peace and security in 2015 and the subsequent resolutions for the first\ntime gives legitimacy and recognition to the significant works of young people\nto global peace and security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the project<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n<strong>\u2018<em>Youth\nBuilding Peace in Nigeria\u2019<\/em><\/strong> project seeks to showcase, profile and\nhighlight the works and contributions of young people across communities from\nthe north and south in Nigeria to peacebuilding and sustainable development\nwhich have hitherto received limited recognition by giving them a space to tell\nthe world their success stories, challenges and how they are overcoming these\nchallenges in the midst of glaring socio-economic and political realities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This\nproject will capture stories of twenty young peacebuilders including male and\nfemales from communities across the six geopolitical zones and the federal\ncapital territory, Abuja, in Nigeria. It specifically aims to highlight stories\nof vulnerable youth who ordinarily will not have the access to the available\nphysical and social platform to share their stories.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Objectives <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It provides firsthand knowledge\nof the contributions of Nigerian youth to peace and security.<\/li><li>Advances the understanding of\nstakeholders and policy makers of the huge potentials and capacities of young\npeople in Nigeria to promoting peace and security. <\/li><li>It contributes to youth policy\ndevelopment in Nigeria and beyond.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thematic Areas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\nwill gather young people\u2019s narratives around the following themes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Youth\nParticipation in Decision making processes and Peacebuilding<\/li><li>Violence\nPrevention Activities: art, sport, peace education, interfaith dialogue as tools\nfor peace building<\/li><li>Gender\nand Women Empowerment<\/li><li>Sustainable\nLivelihood and Entrepreneurship<\/li><li>Disengagement\nand Reintegration initiatives<\/li><li>Climate\nChange Mitigation &nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How to submit your essays<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Profile of author and one page description of the story with title should be sent by <strong>May 18, 2020<\/strong> to <a href=\"mailto:info@bbforpeace.org\">info@bbforpeace.org<\/a> and copy <a href=\"mailto:buildingblocksforpeace@gmail.com\">buildingblocksforpeace@gmail.com<\/a><\/li><li>Selected stories\/authors will be contacted by May 22, 2020. <\/li><li>Final entries must be submitted in MS word format and not exceeding 4,000 words.<\/li><li>Deadline for submission of final essay is July 1, 2020.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Essays will be published and launched commemorate the fifth anniversary of the United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 2250 on Youth, Peace and Security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All\nenquiries related to this project, be forwarded <a href=\"mailto:info@bbforpeace.org\">info@bbforpeace.org<\/a>, and copy <a href=\"mailto:buildingblocksforpeace@gmail.com\">buildingblocksforpeace@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background Throughout the world, more than 600 million young people live in fragile and conflict affected societies according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)report&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}