If We Truly Want Young People to be Peacemakers, Agents of Positive Change, Then Attacks on Education Must Stop

[allAfrica] My name is Nandege and I am a peacemaker. I come from the village of Homiri in Chukudum county, South Sudan, where most of the population of some 150,000 people are subsistence farmers, just like my mother. When I was 24, I brokered peace between two communities who had fought each other for decades over cattle thefts that often turned violent, to the extent that people were killed. It was destroying livelihoods and the communities.

[allAfrica] My name is Nandege and I am a peacemaker. I come from the village of Homiri in Chukudum county, South Sudan, where most of the population of some 150,000 people are subsistence farmers, just like my mother. When I was 24, I brokered peace between two communities who had fought each other for decades over cattle thefts that often turned violent, to the extent that people were killed. It was destroying livelihoods and the communities.