Youth Initiative Against Violence and Human Rights Abuse (YIAVHA) has urged young people in Jos, Nigeria, to ensure they always tolerate one another to promote peace.
Project Coordinator of the non-governmental organisation (NGO), Chudung Sheku, made the call during a one-day workshop on Inter-faith Cooperation, Religious Harmony, Community Organisation and Technology for Peace.
Development Diaries gathered that young people from ten communities in Jos North local government area of Plateau State attended the training tagged ‘Pluraliti’.
Jos, the Plateau State capital, has suffered the problem of insecurity – which has manifested in recurring ethno-religious and communal crisis across the state – for many years.
On the training, Sheku said that the project was designed to promote local understanding on inter-faith harmony, religious inclusiveness and learning in communities around tertiary institutions.
She said that the project, supported by the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Inter-religious and Inter-cultural Dialogue (KAICIID), also aimed at ensuring a peaceful academic environment devoid of religiously motivated violence.
‘We are here today to train these youths on inter-faith cooperation, religious harmony and community organisation’, she said.
‘This is part of our ongoing project known as “Pluraliti”, which seeks to build and sustain peace in communities.
‘We have selected young people for this training because we believe they have the energy to ensure the desired peace is achieved in the society’.
She explained that the participants were selected from communities located around the University of Jos, the jurisdiction of the project.
Some of the trainees, it was gathered, came from Fillin Sukuwa, Angwan Rogo, Angwan Rimi, Zinariya, Angwan Jarawa, Farin Gada, Naraguta, and Rusaau.
Source: NAN
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