Youth Peace Talks by YPI Layla Gegout

In the context of the season on language in peacebuilding, we had a conversation with Lejla from Youth for Peace who is working on a campaign to tackle hate speech. ALTer Hate is a campaign that aims to counter hate speech through activities of education, sensitization, and advocating the acceptance of diversity and inclusion through counter and alternative narratives. Find the campaign on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ALTernate.Hate) and Instagram (https://instagram.com/alter_hate?igshid=1l8g508mm0547).

To start off the discussion on the topic of language in peacebuilding, we invited our colleague Joep to have a conversation with two alumni from YPI's Young Leadership Experience: Lyra and Laila. In this episode, Lyra and Laila share their personal experiences relating to language as a divider in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but they also explore the potential of language as a connector and a bridge between people. Language is an incredibly powerful tool, and if used correctly, it can be the key to understanding one another and constructively building peace. Enjoy the episode!

For the last episode of the first season of our podcast, we celebrate Women’s Day with an incredible peace builder based in Kashmir: Ufra is a professional peace psychologist, working fulltime in Myanmar and keeping herself busy in her free time with her nonprofit in Kashmir, Paigaam. Building peace from the ground-up, she has an eclectic approach to her work in which she combines spiritual, mental, physical and other kinds of well-being, and uses art as a medium for exploring inner peace. Enjoy listening to this inspiring episode, and make sure you go follow Ufra Mir on Instagram!

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Miyerlandy shares with us about her peacebuilding work, focusing mainly on her position within the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies in which she monitors the implementation of point 2 (political participation) of the Colombian Peace Accord. This episode might give you inspiration and insight into what it is like to work in peacebuilding on a national level, especially with regards to building and maintaining sustainable peace for all in the context of a long-standing armed conflict. We hope you enjoy!

Thed is the chair and co-founder of the Youth Peace Initiative. In this episode, he tells us about his inspiration to create this initiative and gives our listeners some advice on how to start an NGO. If you have additional questions, please feel free to contact us through our facebook or instagram pages: just look up Youth Peace Initiative :) We hope you enjoy listening to this episode! *In the last segment of this episode, Thed recommends the following book: 'Collaborating with the Enemy' - Adam Kahane.

In this episode, Emina and Fatma talk about the work they do within Youth For Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina. They explain their personal involvement with peacebuilding and how important it is to do everything we can to build a society of sustainable coexistence. Find Youth For Peace online: https://www.youth-for-peace.ba/en/