Can You Be a Peacemaker?
We have often heard about the difficulties of the future. The rising of new poverties required global actions to be fixed. Actions able to be liable not only in the present but also for the next generations of global actors: the Youths.
We, the Italian Delegation, believe in the importance to understand this radical change so that we can also be able to find solutions. We believe in the Emperor Augustus’ motto Festina Lente: “Make Haste Slowly”, because all the necessary outcomes will be achieved if followed by passion and mutual understanding.
The recent data affirm that there will be more than 9 billion people in the world by 2050. As next leading generation one of the youth priorities is to affirm its position in the progress. According to these trends, we believe in the importance for youth stakeholders to shape sustainable global solutions together. The Italian Delegation at the World Summit of the Nobel Peace Laureates wants to feed this needs proposing to the Secretariat of the Nobel Peace Laureates to be the hub for the discussion of youth stake- holders. Young people need to learn about, implement, monitor, and review the global solutions through neutral arena in which they can freely discuss with faithful leaders.
According to the future adoption by the United Nations members of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a new set of targets for the development of the Global Agenda will be implemented from the end of 2015.
How?
Peace sometimes has a complex meaning, difficult to be translated in our daily world. Moreover, the difficult task for our next leading generation will be to tackle the contemporary political and natural transformation in order to bring innovation for a more sustainable society, possibly in the nearest future. For this reason, we propose to launch a “Call to Action” in order to find the most functional meaning of Peace in this world.
Bringing the Activeness of Youth Generations for fundamental instrument for the cooperation for working with and for people. This necessity is also stated by the UN Secretary General and by his five-years Action Agenda. For this reason he established in 2013 the Office of the Secretary General Envoy’s on youth.
Youth Generations are the bridge of the future: the effective connection between the need of Humanity and Sustainability in the Global Development Agenda
“There is no ‘Plan B’ because we do not have a ‘Planet B.’ We have to work and galvanize our action.” Ban Ki Moon, UN Secretary General
The question-target of this consultation will be “How Young People see Peace in Practice?”. The question will be discussed following these determinate areas of discus- sions:
1. What’s the role of young generations in implementing the SDGs?
2. Challenges concerning the realization of effective outcomes;
3. Priority in shaping effective solutions.
In order to be a success, the consultation of the Youth Declaration of Peace has to embody the widest spectrum of Young People respecting diversities and gender balance.
World Institutional stakeholders generally do not give priority to the possibility to engage young people in a general discussion concerning the development framework. Their effective collaboration could help to understand what can be done to shape the future of a more sustainable world.
