DPCW_1038 : The Need for Peace for Sustainable Social Development

 HWPL held a human rights webinar on December 17th under the theme, “The Need for Peace for Sustainable Social Development.” About 26 people including the head of a youth NGO in Sierra Leone, journalists, religious leaders, and more attended this webinar to discuss practical ways to achieve peace in Sierra Leone’s current national reality.

 

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Sierra Leone’s population has a high proportion of youths. In the midst of this, political polarization according to race and region led to the critical election activities of each party which have spread to bloody violence among young people. This resulted in the sacrifices of many young people’s lives. Also, young people are living in conflict and anxiety taking harmful drugs due to unemployment and other economic problems, and engaging in violence and criminal acts that undermine the nation’s safety.

 

Experts from various fields who attended this webinar pointed out that taking this unstable reality for granted is a problem in the present society and explained that peace education is needed to improve such problems. In order for the nation and community to develop, peace must be achieved from one’s home first because it must be enforced that peace is an essential fundamental right that everyone must deserve.

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For this event, many people including Colonel Muana Brima Massaquoi, the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Defence and National Security, Ms. Yvonne Denise Aki-Sawyer, the Mayor of the City of Freetown, H.E. Samuel Sam-Sumana, the Former Vice President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, and more have sent congratulatory messages.

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Colonel Muana Brima Massaquoi, the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Defence and National Security, said, “I am very happy and interested to see this event going on because it was a space where many different opinions were freely presented and everyone was very considerate of each other. The ultimate purpose of this work is to promote sustainable peace through a foundation of justice and equality. It is our responsibility to create a culture of peace to guarantee human rights.”

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