Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer que l'imam Mohamed Ashafa et le pasteur James Wuye se sont vus attribués le Prix de la Fondation Jacques Chirac pour la prévention des conflits.

For 17-year-old Sohail Karim, from East London, gang culture used to be a part of his life. ‘I grew up on a council estate in an area where there was a lot of violence between gangs of white and Asian youths,’ he told a Greencoat Forum in the London centre of Initiatives of Change, on 13 October. ‘I started to become involved in gangs and I wasn’t the best student at school either.’ Cheryl Gallagher reports.

Imam Muhammad Ashafa and Pastor James Wuye have won the Fondation Chirac Prize for Conflict Prevention. They have accepted the Prize, which goes to support their work, and will attend to the ceremony on 6 November in Paris, at la Sorbonne. Former President of France Jacques Chirac, Kofi Annan and members of the jury of the Prize will attend.

Information on The Fondation Chirac Prize for Conflict Prevention. The Fondation Chirac Prize for Conflict Prevention aims to improve awareness of these risks and to help and support those who invest so much, in time and resources, to prevent conflicts from the outset. Its purpose is, by necessity, to improve international recognition of their efforts, to encourage people to take up the conflict prevention mantle and to encourage financial support.

Durante su exitosa campaña en contra de la violencia electoral del año pasado, Hope Sierra Leona (H-SL) identificó que la existencia de tantas pandillas de jóvenes desempleados fue uno de los elementos detonadores que contribuyó con la violencia. La sangrienta guerra civil sufrida en el país de 1991 a 2001, involucró a muchos niños soldados – interrumpiendo su educación y vida familiar – y dejando la economía devastada. Muchos jóvenes viven en las calles, sufriendo de extrema pobreza y con muy pocas posibilidades de empleo. En contra de este precedente, H-SL inició una serie de programas para jóvenes vulnerables a través de su programa Fundamentos Morales para la Democracia (MFD por sus siglas en inglés).

During its successful campaign against election violence last year, Hope Sierra Leone (H-SL) identified the many gangs of unemployed youths as one of the volatile elements contributing to violence. The country's brutal civil war, 1991-2001, involved many child soldiers - disrupting education and families - and left the economy devastated. Many youths live on the streets in extreme poverty with little prospects of employment. Against this background, H-SL initiated a series of outreach programmes to vulnerable youths through its Moral Foundations for Democracy (MFD) programme.

Uma oficina inaugural sobre Liderança, Resolução de Conflitos e Entendimento Cultural ocorreu em Genève no final de Maio.

A finales de mayo se inauguraron en Ginebra los talleres sobre Liderazgo, Resolución de Conflictos y Entendimiento Cultural.

An inaugural workshop on Leadership, Conflict Resolution and Cultural Understanding took place in Geneva at the end of May.

El imán Mohammed Ashafa y el pastor James Wuye, de Kaduna, Nigeria, fueron invitados a Washington, DC, del 1 al 4 de abril, para una serie de reuniones y talleres en la Agencia Americana para el Desarrollo Internacional, dirigidos a los actores religiosos comprometidos en la creación de la paz.