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	Uniting African Youth for Peace – Bujumbura, Burundi an article by United Network of Young Peacebuilders The training course “Unir la Jeunesse Africaine pour la Paix” (Uniting African Youth for Peace) hosted by UNOY Peacebuilders and UNOY’s Burundian member organization Initiatives and Actions for Peace and Development included 24 youth workers from UNOY member organizations, Cordaid partner organizations and other relevant organizations from three different countries from the Great Lakes region in Africa (Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda). click on photo to enlarge The training was held in Bujumbura, Burundi, on September 10-15, 2012, and aimed at providing youth NGO members in the region with skills in conflict transformation and project development/management. Additionally, the training also served as a space for networking and exchange of ideas and fundraising strategies for peacebuilding in the region. The training course was held in French, and focused on the creation of several different work plans to be later developed in projects that bring together the Great Lakes youth around peacebuilding. As a final product of the training course, participants created a series of six different work plans containing general and specific objectives, as well as a roadmap to be implemented in the course of the next 2 months. Follow-up activities include the provision of two feedbacks of draft proposals by UNOY, two progress reports in the course of project implementation as well as the mediation of a Facebook group by UNOY partner IAP. The training course was the first of a series of regional training courses in Africa, and was a huge success. Pictures from the training course can be found here and the report from the course will shortly be published here.		DISCUSSION Question(s) related to this article: Is there a renewed movement of solidarity by the new generation?,
This report was posted on October 8, 2012.