Emissaries of Peace traveling from farthest west to farthest
east
Two members of the UBC-based Youth Millennium Project will
set out October 14 on a road trip to 30 Canadian cities to
promote their new program — Peace Challenge.
The latest brainchild of Executive Director Lisa Thomas-Tench
and part of the Liu Institute for Global Issues, Peace Challenge
engages youth in Canada and around the world in global citizenship
and peace-building.
Thomas-Tench and 17-year-old student Christine Lapointe
will visit elementary and high schools from Canada’s
farthest western point to its farthest eastern one and encourage
students to consider what peace means. Their ideas will be
documented by video.
“Students participating in the Peace Challenge will
receive a ‘Peace Builders of Tomorrow’ kit, which
shows them how they can create their own projects to promote
peace around the world,” says Thomas-Tench. “We
also provide teachers with six program modules to assist the
process.”
Participants in Canada and nine other countries will be
connected with African youth to learn about different cultures,
build peace projects in their own communities and communicate
about various peace topics in their own nation.
For five years, the Youth Millennium Project at UBC has
successfully engaged youth in peace-building projects around
the world. By building the structure for a peaceful community
before conflict can arise, the YMP empowers youth to contribute
to international and community development.
For more information, visit www.ympworld.org
and www.peacechallenge.org.
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