Dimapur, July 5 (EMN): Peace Channel, Dimapur organized its 4th Summer Camp at DBIDL Hall, Don Bosco Campus from July 2 - 4, 2018 which was attended by 120 students along with eight ‘teachers animators from different Institution’.
A press release issued by the “Peace Channel Desk”, while informing about the summer camp, stated that the camp was held on the theme “Transformed by Peace to transform the World,” in collaboration with NEI- Action Desk-NCCI and DAN with an objectives to make the peace club members to understand the concept of peace, conflict, Peace building, Peace Education and Youth as a peace builders in the Society.
The participants of the camp, as per the report, were ‘capacitated on emotional handling skills, leadership skills, peer mediation, inner peace, human rights, and peace through music’.
The release informed that ‘peace activist’ Garrol Lotha capacitated the students on ‘Peer Mediation’ saying that it is a process of intervening in a conflict situation by the student to resolve student issues as a third neutral party.
While stressing on the need of peer mediation in the school settings which will help the students to resolve issues among themselves, the she enlightened on ‘the qualities and skills needed to be a good Mediator which includes good communication skills, respect for the peers, confidentiality, empathy, leadership potentials and willingness to receive feedbacks’.
Activist, Patrick Tungoe, while talking about ‘Peer Mediation’ is a process of students solving problems in the institutes, pointed out that to be a mediator one should always try to get each side of the story, set ground rules before mediation, elicited the feelings from both-sides, brainstorming solutions, compromising to make an agreement and signing an agreement.
He enunciated on the kinds of kinds of disputes where the students can mediate which includes misunderstandings between students, teasing or name-calling, relationship arguments, accusations of theft or destruction of property, rumors and/or fights between groups.
Tungoe further urged the students to follow the Four Basic Principles being a mediator by maintaining neutrality, self-determination, confidentiality and voluntary consent.
Another activist, Liangamang Robert addressed the students stating that leadership is the ability to translate unlimited potentials into desired results where one has to become leader of oneself first. Leadership is very common but it is important how one performs it. Emphasizing on inclusive leadership he stated that leadership can also be a source of violence and conflict.
He also mentioned that the characteristics of leadership are not - position, title and personal attributes rather leadership means being calm, confident, courageous and consistent.
Tungoe further urged the participants to become true leaders by first leading oneself in the right direction and encouraged the members to possess the qualities of calmness, confidence, courageous and consistent. Further, he encouraged the participants to acquire the skill of Delegation, Empathy, Resilience, Attitude, Transparency, and Commitment he further encouraged the participants to be leaders for change.
PRO of Peace Channel, Kishor Das, who was also one of the speakers, while enunciating on human rights and said human rights are ‘integral part of human life since the possession of these rights distinguished human beings from other living beings’.
He also mentioned some of the Rights which are essential for the dignified human existence.
In this connection, Dass stressed on safeguarding human rights indicating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights urging the participants to recognize the inherent dignity and equal inalienable rights of all members of human family as the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.
