Eighth International Youth Peace Ambassador Training Workshop (YPA8) Abuja, Nigeria, postponed to some time in 2014 or 2015.

Call for participation (pdf) and registration form (Word) - you can still register in anticipation of the event.

Invitation to all youth from abroad:

We invite all youth from around the world who can come on their own travel expense. We may charge a registration fee of USD300 for the event to cover all costs of accommodation, for international delegates.  There may be subsidies, if you require one please include in your application a covering letter, within the same file as your registration form.  Send these to: Mr. Dada Samson Adewale, Email: psalmist87@gmail.com

The YPA workshops are exciting because they include persons with diverse skills and experience in youth networking in different spheres, and you learn skills of evaluation, fund raising, and feedback in many areas of action that you may not have considered before.



Call for Participation

We invite you and your organization to join the Youth Peace Ambassadors International in building peace in the Nigeria and the world through empowering youth to share experiences of working to promote good values and ethics, the culture of peace and to develop practical action plans with the inspiration of the young people. Since 2010, Eubios Ethics Institute, in cooperation with partner institutions have organized seven Youth Peace Ambassador Training Workshops with 600 youth from many countries and circumstances.  Together, the youth have worked to identify issues that can promote a culture of peace, and developed 220 action projects promoted at making a difference in their communities.

Through the Youth Peace Ambassador International Programme, we are jointly harnessing the power, optimism and influence of young people to promote action and change for Peace. The Youth Peace Ambassador International programme is global in reach, and the YPA8 will focus on promoting good values, ethics and integrity as tools to peaceful national development. There have been only a few Nigerian trainees of YPA so far, in the Trainings with have taken place in Hiroshima, Japan; Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Penang, Malaysia; Etajima, Japan; Bangkok and Kaeng Krachan, Thailand; London, England; and Kathmandu, Nepal. In order to empower youth from all 109 Senatorial districts of Nigeria, and to bring together some of the many groups working for Peace in Nigeria, we hold YPA8 in Abuja.  We also hope that this venue will be more accessible for our African friends.  

The outcomes you could help achieve include:

• Strengthening the youth peace ambassador network of young people to a more global 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;
• Promoting ethics and values of all citizens through youth empowerment;

The programme is especially for young citizens who have already started to make a difference in their community to overcoming the challenges for their communities, and persons who are actually doing things to rebuild communities.



Note on dates - The organizers regret that the YPA8 training has had to be postponed, and the dates will be confirmed once financial arrangements are preent to ensure wide participation of youth from around Nigeria, and the international facilitators.

Co-organizers: Special Adviser to the President on Ethics and Values of Nigeria, Eubios Ethics Institute, American University of Sovereign Nations (AUSN) and Youth Peace Ambassadors (YPA) International



International Faculty and Facilitators include

Professor Darryl Macer, Director, Eubios Ethics Institute, New Zealand; and Provost, American University of Sovereign Nations, USA; Coordinator, Youth Peace Ambassadors International

Dr. Sarah N. Jibril, Special Adviser to the President on Ethics and Values, Nigeria;

Professor I. O. Taiwo, London School of Economics & Political Science, Director General, Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER)

Mr. Rimesh Khanal, Youth’s UNESCO Club, Nepal 

Ms. Ananya Tritipthumrongchok, General Manager of Eubios Ethics Institute, and International Peace and Development Ethics Centre, Thailand;

Mr. Tsuyoshi Sotoya, National Coordinator of YPA in Japan, Japan;

Prof. Jerry Gana, University of Aberdeen, Former Minster of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

Prof. Ogundare Samuel, Tai Solarin University of Education, Nigeria

Dr Simon A. S Dolly, Official Peace Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

Hon. Daniel Emmanuel Gengle

Mr. Turnoe Hyacinth Horvel, Israel International Security Academic, Israel

Local YPA Trainees and Committee (under Dr. Sarah N. Jibril and Dr. Darryl Macer):

Mr. Dada Samson Adewale, YP Ambassadors Sing for peace; Secretariat

Mr. Stephen Granville, President PATFON, Rivers State

Mr. Chibuike Mokwe, Executive Director, Youth for peace project (YPP)

Ms. Morenike Olufon, Coventry University

Other YPA Trainees from Nigeria