Description
In this youth agenda, we will look at achieving this aim through peace campaignson issues including landmines, small arms, peace education, promoting childrens rights, stopping the use of child soldiers, abolishing nuclear weapons, and building an International Criminal Court. These are problems that affect the lives and futures of young people, and we can play a part in all these efforts to find solutions, alongside others working in the fields of human rights, the environment, humanitarian assistance, disarmament, and sustainable development.
The campaigns demonstrate what can be done when people are listened to instead of talked at. We must take the initiative, thinking of security not in terms of state borders and weapons, but of human life. It is too serious a matter to be left to politicians and soldiers (nearly all men)! Helping to bring peace and understanding to the places where we live is true humanitarian interventionbullying by the rich and powerful is not. The abolition of war is a long-term goal, so we should get started right away!
View full pdf version here: http://www.haguepeace.org/resources/youthAgenda.pdf