By Alice Sindayigaya
Conscious of the role that they are called to play in the present situation of our country, following the workshop organized by the Amahoro Youth Club with the support of Peace Direct, that, while creating a space of exchange among young people of the universities, started Clubs Amahoro in four Burundian universities who were invited in the workshop.
The mission of the Amahoro clubs in the Universities is to promote and to educate the culture of Peace and Dialogue through spaces of exchange to the future leaders of the country – the students of the different Universities of Burundi – for a Burundi that is politically, socially and economically better.
This is how after the workshop organized with the leaders of the students on the Mobilization of the young people for Free, Transparent and non violent elections organized by the Amahoro Youth Club (AYC), it has been created to the level of four Universities (Light University of Bujumbura, University of the Lake Tanganyika, University of Burundi and University of the Great Lakes) Clubs Amahoro.
The Amahoro club of Light University of Bujumbura was the first to organize such a space of exchange under the theme: “The active violence, is it a solution for the political crisis that our country crosses? »
In a room completely full of more than 200 students and in front of some high authorities of this university, the faces filled of enthusiasm, the students had come numerous to follow this official launching of the Amahoro clubs in their university.
The Head of the academics who represented the university made a speech articulating on three points:
Thanks: He thanked the promoters notably the leaders of the students of the university and the Amahoro Youth Club for this initiative to throw proceedings being the subject of the exchange spaces. He didn’t forget to thank other students who came from the other universities to sustain their friends for this official launching of the Amahoro clubs.
2. Invitation: He invited all participants to follow the tools prepared to open proceedings as the movie on the elections held in failure in Kenya. In additional, he invited them to give some solutions so that youth constructs a country of peace and honey.
3. Advice: He gave an advice to follow the debate until the end to gain the possible maximum. He also gave an advice to participate actively in the promotion of peace and lasting development because youth is Burundi of today and of tomorrow. He added that the active violence is never a solution at any conflict.
The debate was open by a DVD showing the electoral experience of Kenya. Kenya fell in massive killings after the election of December 2008. The civil war exploded, the population started killing each other and adopted like solution an active violence, after a vote blemished of massive fraud. The report was that the active violence generated a lot of consequences to the Kenyan population.
The presentation was enlivened by the representative of the students on the theme announced above, it defined two concepts” active violence and conflict” by lexical notions illustrated by examples of the world and Burundi.
The exhibitor underlined the situation that prevails in our country where the elections are contested by the opposition. He recalled that the present situation takes the size and that signs of violence are visible; seeing the attempts explosives orchestrated in the country.
The open debate, some divergent ideas began to flow, some were FOR the active violence and others AGAINST this manner to answer oppression. Those who were FOR argued saying that the violence succeeded in different revolutions and changes that the world knew. From their point of view, in some cases, the violence is necessary. Is this the best solution for the present Burundi that has hardly come out of the war and thus returned there?
Those who were AGAINST, one said that the violence didn’t give anything in our country particularly and in the region in general, especially as youth was always victim of the violence. They suggested that the best solution for any conflict is the dialogue.
After the exchanges, it has been noticed that the solution for the case of Burundi would be the dialogue between all parties concerned by the Burundian political conflict. The dialogue didn’t betray Burundi, why not again to give to it a chance to demonstrate its proofs while giving it back our total confidence.
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