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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 S
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