{"id":8820,"date":"2017-04-07T22:38:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T22:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncmginternational.org\/peaceaward\/?page_id=8820"},"modified":"2019-05-17T10:39:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T10:39:15","slug":"youth-innovation-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ncmginternational.org\/peaceaward\/peace-awards\/youth-innovation-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"YOUTH INNOVATION FOR PEACE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class=\"column dt-sc-three-fourth    first \"   style=\"         \"><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This Award category (limited to those under 35) recognizes and honors an individual\/youth that promotes peace and cooperation beyond traditional boundaries of religion, race, ethnicity &amp; nationality through intellectual dialogues, conflict analyses &amp; transformation narratives. This Youth sees to the promotion of dialogue &amp; cooperation advocating and championing the capabilities of the residents of communities to live in peaceful co-existence.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The future of Nigeria and Africa resides largely on its youths and the ability of youths to effectively harness the positive capabilities of their strength and good character. With 70% of Nigeria\u2019s population below 35 years of age and 65% of Africa\u2019s population under 35, the need to focus and invest enormously on the youths as a precondition for the continent\u2019s development cannot be overemphasized given that strength and enthusiasm required to positively shape the social, economic and political landscape relies mainly on the youths.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Criteria:&nbsp; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Award Category (limited to those under 35) recognizes exceptional youths who:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Grew up in societies that are or were immersed in violence and have despite the odds, emerged strongly to challenge the debilitating environmental structures with outstanding initiatives in peace-building, conflict management and reconciliation.<\/li>\n<li>Implore tools such as intellectual dialogues, conflict analyses &amp; transformation narratives to promote peace and cooperation beyond traditional boundaries of religion, race, ethnicity &amp; nationality.<\/li>\n<li>Stand on the common ground of universal moral principles and are committed to promotingreconciliation, overcoming barriers, and building peace using various methods, which include technology.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Save and include others from conflict areas in peace processes in order to amplify their voices in their shared future.<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This Award category (limited to those under 35) recognizes and honors an individual\/youth that promotes peace and cooperation beyond traditional boundaries of religion, race, ethnicity &amp; nationality through intellectual dialogues, conflict analyses &amp; transformation narratives. This Youth sees to the promotion of dialogue &amp; cooperation advocating and championing the capabilities of the residents of communities [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8631,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncmginternational.org\/peaceaward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncmginternational.org\/peaceaward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncmginternational.org\/peaceaward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncmginternational.org\/peaceaward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncmginternational.org\/peaceaward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8820"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ncmginternational.org\/peaceaward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9583,"href":"https:\/\/ncmginternational.org\/peaceaward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8820\/revisions\/9583"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncmginternational.org\/peaceaward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncmginternational.org\/peaceaward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}