South Sudan: Youth trained in peace building

The Justice and Peace Commission of the Diocese of Wau in South Sudan has ended a training workshop for some 40 young men and women on conflict resolution and peacebuilding. The two-day training session, which is part of an on-going peace building programme aims to help participants become peace ambassadors in their various communities.

At the end of the training session, the Programme Officer of the Commission, Stephen Robo called upon participants drawn from all the parishes of the diocese to make their own contribution to the peace process.

A peace agreement was signed in August to end a civil war which broke out on 15 December 2013 between supporters of President Salva Kiir and his sacked vice president, Reik Machar.

The Justice and Peace Commission of Wau is running a two-year conflict resolution and peace building programme to strengthen and spread messages of peace among communities in the South Sudanese diocese. The programme was launched with the formation of peace committees in the different parishes.

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