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LAPORAN MALAYSIA YOUTH PEACE AMBASSADOR 2013

PROGRAM REPORT SIXTH UNESCO YOUTH PEACE AMBASSADOR TRAINING WORKSHOP:

FROM ETHICAL MINDS TO ETHICAL ACTION (YPA6)

DATE

25TH MAY – 2ND JUNE 2013

VANUE

BANGKOK AND KAENG KRACHAN, THAILAND


SIXTH UNESCO YOUTH PEACE AMBASSADOR TRAINING WORKSHOP:

FROM ETHICAL MINDS TO ETHICAL ACTION (YPA6)

DATE : 25TH MAY – 2ND JUNE 2013 VENUE : BANGKOK AND KAENG KRACHAN, THAILAND

UNESCO is building peace in the world through empowering youth from different countries across Asia and the Pacific, and across the world, to share experiences of working to promote the culture of peace and to develop practical action plans with the inspiration of the young people. Since 2010, UNESCO, in cooperation with partner institutions has organized four Youth Peace Ambassador Training Workshops across the Asia-Pacific with 320 youth from many countries and circumstances. Together, the youth have worked to identify issues that can promote a culture of peace, and developed 120 action projects promoted at making difference in their communities. Through the Youth Peace Ambassador Programme, UNESCO is harnessing the power, optimism and influence of young people to promote action and change for Peace. The outcomes we could help achieve include:

Strengthening the youth peace ambassador network of young people as a forum for the exchange of ideas and good practices for effecting social change for peace

Reducing the suffering from conflicts and violence

Broadening aspects of participant life plans from a multicultural perspective

Support for specific youth-led projects to be implemented in different countries

Expand the integration of security and peace activities into policy making, with special relevance to young persons

With the cooperation of Student Affairs of Universiti Teknologi MARA (UITM), all the Malaysians delegates are given the opportunity to join the nine days programme in Thailand. The representatives from Malaysia are Farah Yasmin binti Abd Radzak , Mohd Norsadiq bin Mohd Yusof and Amir Syafiq bin Abd Aziz which are all from UITM. With this golden opportunity, we hope to instil the enthusiasm and passion in fighting for peace by making a difference in our community to overcome the challenges for our communities and continue the efforts to rebuild the communities in terms of peace, health, development and environment. The first 3 days programme took place in Bangkok. On 25th May 2013, we checked in into I-Residence Hotel Silom, Thailand, along with other delegates from all around the world such as from Romania, Japan, China, Philippine, Cambodia, Taiwan, Nepal, Nigeria, Indonesia,Canada, New Zealand, United States of America, United Kingdom and many more. During the night, we had a welcoming dinner at Chulalongkorn University in which we had the opportunity to know the participants from all around the world.


On 26th May, we had two workshops in which in the morning session we had “The Use of Social Media for Activism” and “Peace and Community Action Plan” in which there are presentations from international speakers :

Faizal H. Ibrahim, Brunei; Media, New Technology, and International Relations - the role of the media in creating a productive public sphere in an increasingly globalizing world

Alin Horj (Research Fellow, Eubios Ethics Institute, Thailand) Impact of Social Media during recent uprising in Northern Africa and Middle East

Dolapo Fukude Olympic Youth Truce

Henry Jiang The Nuclear Disaster Project

In the evening, we went to Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) in which we had the opportunity to look into the arts exhibition titled “Pharmacide Arts and Counterfeit Goods”.

On 27th May, we had another workshops at Faculty of Art, Chulalongkorn University in which the previous YPA5 participants had presented their report on their action plan. The lists of presentations are as below :

Tsuyoshi Sotoya (Japan) : Ethics of Donor Insemination

Vania Santoso (Indonesia) : Technology for Ecology

Nabiollah Masoumi (Iran) :Right and Wrong in Religious Context

Amir Syafiq bin Abdul Aziz (Malaysia) : Youth Peace Festival During the evening session, we had the opportunity to listen to talks from Mr. Ryan Libre, Director of Documentary Arts Asia Chiang Mai in which he speaks of “how to use the visual arts for peace work”. On 28th May, we checked out from I-Residence Hotel in Silom and departed to Thai Diamond Land Resort, Kaeng Krachan. During our journey to Kaeng Krachan, we stopped at the beaches and we had one hour break for sightseeing and swimming. After that, we went to the International Peace Park in Kaeng Krachan and we had the opportunity to plant a tree as a symbol of world peace. We were also given the opportunity to visit the Kaeng Krachan Prisoner and had the opportunity to know about the building of Earthen House in Thailand. On 29th May,we had a second session with Mr Ryan Liber Director of Documentary Arts Asia Chiang Mai. After that, we had another presentations from participants all around the world such as :

Xiao Chun Ling (Taiwan) : The Power of Medical Humanity

Ferry Sandria (Indonesia) : Flourishing The Future Through Fadfam: An NGO For Children and Leaders of Tomorrow

Marcella Suwandi (Indonesia) : International Student Conference on Global Citizenship

Mohammed Bachtiar Rifaie (Indonesia) : Education to Save Children


Angelyne Fong (Malaysia) : Reflections

Gloria Marcella (Indonesia) : Indonesia Greenaction Forum

Kresna Lintang (Indonesia) : One Tumbler for One Man to reduce Waste Plastic Bottles of Mineral Water

On 30th May , we visited a school which was built under the UNESCO program and we had the opportunity to teach the students English and Mathematics. After that, we had another rounds of presentations from participants all around the world such as :

Raesha (Nepal ) : Eradicating of harassment of women in Nepal

Noon Bandin (Thailand) : Earthern Building as Peace Work

Samrach Chum (Cambodia) : Cambodia Youth for peace through Education

Samson Dada (Nigeria) : Born to Shine In the evening we had a thai cooking show and during the night we had a Japanese Cultural Show “Rakugo” performed by one of the participants from Japan, Mr Tsuyoshi Sotoya. On 31st May, we had a ‘Philosophical Walk’ lead by Prof Taro Mochizuki from Osaka University of Japan. After that, we had multiple rounds of debate all day. We were assigned with problems and we had to represent stakeholders, such as the government, companies, NGO’s, different countries and etc. We need to work in groups and discuss the scenario for further presentations in the plenary sessions. For this session, the Malaysians delegates, had planned an action plan for improving human rights in Malaysia especially in case concerning the use of child as child beggars. On 1st June, we had series of presentations on action plan from all participants and all the participants from Malaysia had presented an action plan entitled “Improving Human Rights in Malaysia : Child Beggars”. On 2nd June, our last stay in Thailand, after finishing the formal presentation on YPA action plans, we proceeded with the closing ceremony and went for a sightseeing around Bangkok while waiting for our flight and went straight to the Suvarnabhumi airport . Last but not least, we were very much honoured, thankful and grateful to have been given the opportunity to grasp a lot of new knowledge, learn about peace in a holistic view and being able to put out our comforts and study them under the light of others’ misfortunes. Through this experience, we believe that we have grasped all the good moral values and instil in ourselves, the willingness to learn more, do more, and be more. “Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its Crime.”-Victor Hugo


With some of the participants from Indonesia


One of the presentation from participants from Iran


During our visit to Kaeng Krachan prisoner in which we were given the opportunity to

see the process of the building of the earthern house.


Tree planting at International Peace Park, Kaeng Krachan


Thai cooking show


Journey to Chulalongkorn University


At the beaches


During our visits to school in Kaeng Krachan


Beautiful beaches with all the YPA6 participants


Sharing the cultural dance from Japan during the cultural show


Presentation of report of YPA5 action plan

Conclusion

From this program, the continuous program will be conduct time by times to make

sure the Action Plan for Malaysia delegates will success.

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