KAIROS PEACE CLUBS

APPLI is happy to introduce KAIROS Peace Club to students
unions, academic and administrative communities of high
schools, colleges and universities. KAIROS means the in-
breaking or appointed time of God.  It is time for peace to reign
on our campuses.

It needs to  be emphasized that schools are  models for society
in its entire ramification.  Ranking next to Ethnoreligious
conflicts in Africa is student riots and student violence. The
situation at our learning institutions is worse because many
factors (ethnic identity conflicts, tribal hatred, religious
differences, socio-cultural diversities, economic hardship,
political and ideological differences and campus cult practices)
combine to create student violence on campuses.  The spare
of religious riots and cult killings in African campuses is
alarming.  The cults have turned the citadels of learning in
African higher institutions to battlefield of undeclared wars.  
Many promising lives had been cut short in their prime ages by
campus violence. The dreams of many families had been
dashed through the wicked killings of their children and many
parents have been thrown into perpetual sorrows. Incessant
news reports on campus killings are indeed ear-tingling and
mind-boggling.

What we stand to do
  • KAIROS peace and love clubs serve as nonviolence and
    positive peace education centers
  • to organize seminars, workshops, meetings and
    conferences for resolution of Ethnoreligious crises and
    cult activities on campuses for the prevention of violence
    and for the establishment of campus peace and peaceful
    co-existence
  • to mediate among various groups in times of crises
  • to organize anti-cult programs and rallies
  • to stand as peer counseling groups for students and
    staff and also to share the campus programs for peace
    among various groups on the campus
  • to provide leadership training opportunities that can
    foster campus peace
  • to anticipate and work towards preventing potential
    vortexes of crises among students
  • to educate peace loving students how to nonviolently
    tackle Ethnoreligious violence promoters and violence
    engineers with positive peacemaking.
  • to equip members how to engage trigger and flash points
    for Peacebuilding

What members stand to gain
  • Members will learn the way of peace and love, which is
    better than violence and hatred
  • Members will become critical thinkers and would see why
    violence is not a right solution to every conflict
  • Members will spend qualitative times on their studies and
    preparations for a brighter future life
  • Receive leadership training on nonviolence positive
    peacemaking, conflict transformation and mediation
  • Become a better leader for tomorrow with a balance view
    of equal rights, justice and peace, freedom and liberty for
    everyone
  • Cultivate new lifestyles that promotes peaceful
    Ethnoreligious co-existence
  • Enjoy the opportunities to receive scholarship to study
    abroad in Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation.

What the campus communities stand to gain
  • "All your sons and daughters will be taught by the LORD,
    and great will be your children's peace."
  • Peaceful environment will enhance progressive academic
    and economic activities
  • Less closing down of schools due to students' riots and
    campus violence
  • Reduced numbers of cult related violence and death on
    campuses
  • A peaceful nation, easy to govern, with assurance of
    socio-economic progress and development
  • A peaceful nation will be easily organized to defend
    external aggression than one filled with witless and
    unbridled internal rancours, political instability and
    economic hardship.

Do you want to start a KAIROS Peace Club on your campus?
Download the membership forms and sample constitutions here.

Would like to become a field representative of KAIROS Peace
and Love Club during your NYSC Service Year? If Yes, please
click here
KAIROS CLUB Field Service Form
click here to download KAIROS BROCHURE