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'Peacemaking
summer camp 2008'
The
Dispute Resolution Foundation (DRF), in
association with the Peace Management Initiative,
recently held a 'Peacemaking Summer Camp
2008' for youngsters ages 13 to 22.
The
three-day summer camp took place earlier
this month at the foundation's Peace Centre
on Camp Road, Kingston, with 18 persons
in attendance. The students were sensitised
and trained in conflict resolution, anger
management and mediation methodologies and,
at the end of the training were presented
with certificates qualifying them as Peer
Mediators.
Let
there be peace
The
closing ceremony took place on Thursday,
August 7, and Rev Adinhair Jones, executive
director of the National Youth Services
(NYS), was the guest speaker at the event.
He told his audience: "Reconstruction
of Jamaican society is in your hands. Hopefully,
we can make critical turnaround to make
public and private spaces more enabling
and life-giving. See the large picture -
play your personal role. Let there be peace
on earth and let it begin with me; to be
agents at school and in community of a life
that is socially acceptable and is committed
to the common good."
Six-week
internship
Students
came from Rockfort, Allman Town, Mountain
View and as far away as Bull Bay. Some students
were referred by the NYS, three of them
had just completed three weeks of summer
employment at DRF through the NYS National
Summer Employment Programme, others were
just ending a six-week internship at the
DRF through the Jamaica Public Service Summer
Employment Programme, and some were unemployed
youth enjoying the summer school break.
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