By Aphar Daniel Makur, Juba, South Sudan
April 23, 2016 (SSB) —- The right of tribe-determination is illegal and political inaccurate to all people of south Sudan. And the armed struggles should not be a demand for the right of tribe-determination to all people to determine their own political destiny, economic wellbeing and cultural development. The international community and the neighboring African states should not support the right of tribe-determination for any South Sudanese.
We the youths of this nation should not accept to be driven and used as a tools for cultivating political status. As realize, our country reputations is always diminishing and it is highly fragmented, less peaceful and unsafe for both present and future generation. We are passing through an environment full of tension, violence, declining values, injustices, reduced tolerance and respect for human rights.
The gun culture has already taken dominant position in most of the tribes’ determiners, threatening the future of the youths who deserve a peaceful and better quality of life. We youths constitute the richest wealth of this country. We can develop quality of catholicity of personal integrity, personal discipline and open mindedness. Our youthful period should be a period of passions, emotions, activities and vigor. Because of our frontline positions in all aspects.
There is no doubt that there is a greater need to create a culture of peace and conflict free environment. This is an area where we youths, can come in to play in peace and conflict resolution as “THE CHANGE AGENT”. We can do this by changing our attitudes towards people, traditions, religion and believes. We should learn to combine our enthusiasm with patience, realizing the importance of living together and should be responsible to defend the frontiers of peace and non-violence.
We should equally understand our leadership capacity by enlightening ourselves on the need for community leadership and taking opportunities available to prioritize leadership development preset especially within us, because lack of knowledge about basic decision making impedes progress and therefore results in conflicts. On the other hand, the youths can play an active role in peace and conflict resolution by forming a new assemblage of peace missionary’ network in the grassroots, concentrating on value edification and spiritual renewal among us.
In this country of ethnic expansion, we youths from different ethnic groups can forge links between cultural minorities and popularize shared values, shared culture and traditions handed down from generations to generations. The youths on the political area of development can engage or join in political awareness building, force reforms in bureaucracy to ensure good governance, accountability, transparency and citizenry participation.
At the international scene, we youths can become peace ambassadors of our respective country, promoting exchange programmed in education, culture, science and technology, sports and games and in tourism promotions to link all the youth of the region and the world in the pursuit and maintenance of peace and conflict.
In addition, we should learn new skills to deal with conflict in non-violent ways and create a community that lives by a credo of non-violence and multicultural appreciation. This however must be done with the present crop of people whom we have termed as the leaders of ‘today’ given the necessary chance and creating the opportunity for the youths to act with their enthusiast.
With all this and with every youth having at the back of his mind that wherever he goes, peace is with him because without peace, he cannot live, then the fifth decades would be a decades of tolerance, peace and conflict free.
“The writer is a non-partisan and patriotic south Sudanese national who is political normative from south Sudan new elites group”. He graduated from Cavendish University Uganda with bachelor’s degree in business administration with human resource management in the year 2014. Email: apharmakurmaker@gmail.com
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