Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has harped on dialogue as the one panacea to assist resolve numerous conflicts in Africa.
He made this assertion on Monday in Abeokuta at a youth management symposium with the theme “Alternatives for Peace: Roles of the Youths in Battle Prevention in Africa.”
He mentioned efforts to inculcate a tradition of peace and safety within the youth have to be redoubled to spur them to be on the vanguard of selling peace slightly than getting used to perpetrate violence on the continent.
The programme was put collectively by the Centre for Human Safety and Dialogue in collaboration with the Institute for African Tradition and Worldwide Understanding, Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library.
reporter experiences that the programme was a part of actions lined up for the 87th birthday of the previous president arising on Tuesday, March 5.
In response to the ex-President, as an alternative of pushing ahead the narratives of hatred, adverse attitudes that brew conflicts after which violence, you will need to embrace love and tolerance and see peace as not negotiable for financial progress and prosperity.
He mentioned the youths should stand firmly in opposition to conflicts in any a part of Africa and be brokers of peace slightly than being lured or used as brokers of destabilization.
“We should start to convey up our youth in a tradition of peace and safety. The probabilities are that the place we’ve a tradition of affection, we may have peace.
“The very first thing to do is to inculcate within the youths the elements of peace, which is love and fellowship.
“Have a look at the attributes that God gave us to have a lifetime of stability, a lifetime of peace; they’re, as I discussed, kindness, mercy, and forgiveness,’’ he mentioned.
