TEAM OF ELECTION MONITORING
Kenya will be holding her general elections on 4th March this year. AMECEA Justice and Peace Desk, has formed a team of Election Monitoring. This will be a great opportunity for the Church to be involved in making of a good leadership by ensuring there is fair elections and where it lacks to be able to agitate on behalf of the people. It will also be a good chance for the monitoring team to gather enough lessons and experiences for the benefit of other elections scheduled within AMECEA countries. We pray for Peaceful Elections.
YOUTH WORKSHOP
AMECEA Justice and Peace Desk has organized a Youth workshop on 15th – 19th April 2013. The workshop targets youth leaders in AMECEA Eastern African region and will be extended to the rest of AMECEA countries gradually.
One of the outcomes of AMECEA 17th Plenary Assembly was an appeal to the Church to promote peace involving the lay people with special reference to the youths and women. This leaves the Church with the responsibility of taking up those outcomes for implementation.
Over the years, electoral process within the countries of AMECEA and beyond have been characterized by violent conflicts leaving many dead. The analysis of the same has revealed that youths are massively involved in these conflicts.
The Workshop namely; Youth as agents of peace, is an effort to tap the full energies and potential of the youth in ultimately changing them from being agents of conflicts into being agents of peace, and instill a culture of peace.
CATHOLIC PARLIAMENTARIANS WORKSHOP
A training for Catholic Parliamentarians and is scheduled to take place is October 2012. This Workshop targets the Catholic parliamentarians and Parliamentary liaison officers. We also hope to have representation from East Africa Legislative Assembly (EALA).
A full report will be posted in J&P News.