Dimapur, April 25 (MExN): Peace Channel held training for Animators and Volunteers at Peace Channel Institute of Skill Development’s hall.
Vikhuli Achumi, District Coordinator for Dimapur, while speaking on the activities of Peace Channel shared about the initiatives Peace Club members at the school level take up. “Peace is all about our ability to live in harmony and live up to our life fruitfully,” she stated. Further, she encouraged the participants that age should not be a barrier and that one should not be ashamed to take up challenge to do anything good or great for ourselves. Narrating her own life story, she said she never took misfortunes as a problem but fought back and took up challenges. Who she is today is the result of her fight for identity, she added.
Meanwhile, RK John explained to the participants the main activities of Peace Channel like peace celebration, input sessions, training of volunteers, people forum for peace and so forth. He said the word peace sounds very theoretical and less practical for beginners. But once when an individual dwells within the word and understands it, it has a very big connotation. “Peace is not the absence of war, conflict and violence rather it is the ability of oneself to come into acceptance and live up with themselves and the people with whom they live and contact,” he stated.
He also cited the example of Malala, recipient of Nobel Prize, who said it is not the time to tell our leaders because they know it, but it’s the time to take them and work for a greater change. He further informed that Peace Channel is a platform where one can have the maximum access to obtain peace for self, talk, dream, and share peace to others. Summing up his message, he encouraged the participants to create a difference when they are young and have the capacity to make difference from normal way of life to be recognized and remembered fondly.
