Dear sir/ma,

Dear sir/ma,

Join US to celebrate the International Peace Day on September 21st 2017 at the Media Centre, National Stadium, Lagos      

“Together for Peace: Respect, Safety and Dignity for All.”

“We must resist cynical efforts to divide communities and portray neighbours as ‘the other’. Discrimination diminishes us all. It prevents people — and societies — from achieving their full potential.” “Together, let us stand up against bigotry and for human rights. Together, let us build bridges. Together, let us transform fear into hope.”

Community Agenda For Peace is a Nigerian registered grassroot non-governmental organisation working in the area of PEACE building, Deepening DEMOCRACY and sustainable ENVIRONMENT.

Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples.

The event is a civil society driven shuttle diplomacy in public peace building and conflict prevention with peace advocates drawn from civil society groups, government agencies, the media and other key stakeholders to build a new community of leaders generating cutting edge strategies for public peace, conflict prevention, leadership and development.

How do we make our society more peaceful, just and inclusive? How do we support innovative people-to-people confidence-building and help create an environment conducive to fostering public peace, stability and human security?

The 2030 Agenda contains the shared commitment from all UN Member States to keeping people safe, to ensuring the fair administration of justice in accordance with the rule of law, and to building genuinely inclusive institutions that provide people a voice in the decision-making processes that affect them.

This year’s celebration (a symposium on leadership, development, public peace building and conflict prevention) is planned to have a strong focus on peaceful, just and inclusive societies recognising that there can be no peace without sustainable development and no sustainable development without peace.

Participants at the event will be engaged in an inclusive exchange of information through DANCE, DRAMA & POETRY on fundamental issues of (1) Effective planning for peace and conflict prevention (2) Sound institutional structures for sustainable peace (3) Public and private partnerships with organisations.

MODERATOR:

·         Rufai Useni – On-Air Personality, Inspiration FM

SPEAKER S AT THE EVENT:

·         Mr. Ronal Kayanja – Director, United Nations Information Centre, Lagos

·         Mr. Kehinde Joseph – SSA to Governor Akinwumi Ambode on Civic Engagement

·         Olusegun Akinlotan (Dr) – Liaison Officer, Federal Ministry of Youth & Sports

·         Amb. (Barr.) Obuesi Phillips – National Director, Community Agenda for Peace

GUEST PERFORMANCES:

·         Olumide Holloway – Poetpreneur

·         Mc Recharge Card - Comedian

·         Biodun-Thomas Davids -Dramatist


Date: Thursday September 21st 2017

Time: 10am prompt (Registration commences 9:30am)

Venue: The Media Centre, National Stadium, Lagos

For more information or enquiries:
08066288642
08023068491.

Yours faithfully,

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Obuesi Phillips Esq  
National Director, CAP
U.N. Ambassador for SDGs