Youth Building Peace: You’re not ‘future leaders’. You’re leaders today.
The clock is ticking. There’s no time to doze off. Read on Medium: Here Let’s make it clear and point-blank: the world needs you terribly. In fact, you’re irreplaceable at any cost. Period. Please don’t take it the wrong way. I;m not trying to wake you up? I just want to remind you those days when you saw yourself as a Superhero, a changemaker, where you could bring peace to the whole world with your one fist! I want to remind you that it’s time and your are needed in the field. You’re not ‘future leaders’. You’re leaders today. It’s one extreme to talk about the people who starved and starving, dead and dying, living in the near hell, throughout the countries of northeastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen. It’s completely another extreme to tackle the issue of youth in the developing countries like India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. 1.8 billion people, i.e. 1/4th of the world’s population is youth! But the importance of recognizing youth as a key role ...