Religions for Peace Asia and the Pacific Youth Network will conduct a conference Fostering our Shared Well-being: Empowering Asia-Pacific Youth towards Common Actions on 26-30 November 2019 in Manila, Philippines.
2019 Asia Interfaith Youth Peace Camp
26-30 November 2019 | Manila, Philippines
The 10th World Assembly of Religions for Peace centered on the theme “Caring for our Common Future: Advancing Shared Well-being” when it was held in Lindau, Germany last 20-23 August 2019. Prior to the World Assembly, about 100 youth delegates convened for the You Pre-Assembly last 19 August 2019. The Pre-Assembly gave the youth leaders an opportunity to discuss the various issues and challenges that the youth faces and experiences. From this discussion, the youth leaders were able to recommend various actions that can be done to address these problems.
Recognizing that it is the future of the youth that is at-stake, the Asia & the Pacific Interfaith Youth Network has agreed to bring the conversations of the 10th World Assembly to the youth leaders of the Region. As the World Assembly also sets forth the direction that the Religions for Peace network will take, the 2019 Asia Regional Youth Peace Camp has been designed to bring down to the regional youth network the discussions which will help prepare the RfP APIYN for common actions to protect and care for our common future. Echoing also the vision of the new RfP Secretary General, Prof. Azza Karam, this year’s camp will focus on freedom of religion and belief, conflict transformation, just and harmonious societies, sustainable and integral development, and protecting the Earth.
Fostering our Shared Well-being:
Empowering Asia-Pacific Youth towards Common Actions
THE THEME OF THE CAMP
Fostering Shared Well-being: Empowering Asia-Pacific Youth Towards Common Actions
The theme of the 2019 Asia Interfaith Youth Peace Camp takes off from the theme of the Religions for Peace 10th World Assembly – “Caring for our Common Future: Advancing Shared Well-being” – and moves forward by highlight the important role that the youth play in fostering our shared well-being. Fostering means “to nurture, to encourage or to promote the development”. In this year’s youth camp, focus is on how the youth can nurture, encourage or promote the development of our shared well-being through common actions.
Taking the words from the Declaration of the 10th World Assembly of Religions for Peace: “Our heart’s inner-most experiences of the sacred and our outer-most social lives cry out to be connected in a state of positive peace that Religions for Peace calls, “Shared Well-Being.” Our different experiences of the sacred make clear that we are, at root, relational: radically related to the sacred and to all that is caused or embraced by the sacred. As fundamentally relational, our well-being is intrinsically shared. Helping the other, we are helped; injuring the other, we wound ourselves. We fully acknowledge the invaluable roles of women and youth among us and will continually mainstream their irreplaceable contributions. Our different traditions make clear that the sacred establishes us as both responsible for and dependent upon each other and the earth that sustains us. Shared Well-Being calls us to commit to all the ways the modern order supports our human dignity… Shared Well-Being also calls for a robust notion of the “common good” that can serve all of us in our efforts to virtuously unfold our rights-protected human dignity. The supreme good for us is the sacred, even as we understand it differently.”
For more information, visit https://rfpapiyn.org/youthcamp2019/
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