Training

At VFN we believe that one great step at initiating change would be an attempt at reorienting and changing people’s perception about issues. And since we are talking about saving the future we must invest directly in the future – today’s youth who are tomorrow’s leaders. We have carefully seen that one great step at changing the situation, would be an attempt to change the mentality of people who would most likely determine how things are being run in the near future.

Therefore, we have selected a category of educated and learned young people participating in the NYSC scheme of the Federal Government. We intend to collaborate with the NYSC to give country-wide seminars/trainings/workshops to corps members on peace education and peace

This initiative will initially take the following forms:

• Conducting 3-day seminar that would involve as many corps members as could attend in the FCT on Peace Education and Peace building. Corps members are just fresh from school, they are learned and well informed, they understand what is going on in society to a reasonable extent, they most probably have not developed a negative mindset about the society, and they will soon find themselves in places where they would have a say in the helms of affairs of the nation. Most of them would be working in governmental organizations, private institutions and schools where they would have one say or the other in decision making.

• We do repeat seminars which would be centered on
- Peace education conceptual framework
- Conflict-free conflict resolution
- Peace as an agent of change and development
- Roles we can play in the peace process
- Peace education and the family, government and business community
- Peace education and cultural diversity

The second set would be conducted during the NYSC orientation camp. From these seminars, about 60 – 80 people would be selected and retrained as peace education instructors/facilitators, who would be formed into an NYSC CDS Group. They would focus on discussing societal issues during their meetings and the role of peace education in solving societal problems and how they can go about solving such problems in their own little way.
Their objectives would also be to go into schools and other public meeting places and get people informed about peace education and peace building as an agent of development.

The sole aim is to build a culture of peace, a culture of healing and excellence; first in these youths, and then through them in the society at large.

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