Young people urged to give peace a PowerPoint

Young people urged to give peace a PowerPoint

-22/01/06

A Christian peace network is g

Young people urged to give peace a PowerPoint

-22/01/06

A Christian peace network is giving young people across Europe an opportunity to express their wishes for a better world in the form of a PowerPoint computer presentation ñ which can then be shared widely.

The idea has come from the UK, German, French and Flanders branches of the international Pax Christi (Peace of Christ) movement, which is Catholic but open to those of different Christian traditions ñ like Iraq captive Dr Norman Kember, a Baptist, who has been involved with the group.

The competition is open to young people currently in school between the ages of 15 and 18 years.

The theme they are being asked to illustrate is one arising from a famous speech of Dr Martin Luther King Jr: ìWe must learn to live together as brothers and sisters or perish together as foolsî.

Last Monday was Martin Luther King Day, marking the birth and life of the American black civil rights leader, Christian minister and peace campaigner who was assassinated in 1968.

The think tank Ekklesia, responding to UK chancellor Gordon Brownís ëBritish Dayí idea, has suggested that Dr King would be a good example for the kind of internationalist, non-imperial approach which could generate an alternative kind of patriotism.

Pax Christi are inviting students to work in teams of four to produce a two-minute PowerPoint presentation in CD format.

This presentation will be used as the launch material for a campaign to raise public awareness of peace perspectives in a violent world.

The deadline by which the submissions must reach Pax Christi is 31 March 2006. The best teams from each country will then meet together in Brussels, Belgium, in May 2006 for an encounter visit which will include meeting some Euro MPs and a visit to the European Commission.

Full details of the contest, including registration forms, may be downloaded from the Pax Christi website under the ëYoung Peacemakersí section.

Young people urged to give peace a PowerPoint

-22/01/06

A Christian peace network is giving young people across Europe an opportunity to express their wishes for a better world in the form of a PowerPoint computer presentation – which can then be shared widely.

The idea has come from the UK, German, French and Flanders branches of the international Pax Christi (Peace of Christ) movement, which is Catholic but open to those of different Christian traditions – like Iraq captive Dr Norman Kember, a Baptist, who has been involved with the group.

The competition is open to young people currently in school between the ages of 15 and 18 years.

The theme they are being asked to illustrate is one arising from a famous speech of Dr Martin Luther King Jr: ‘We must learn to live together as brothers and sisters or perish together as fools’.

Last Monday was Martin Luther King Day, marking the birth and life of the American black civil rights leader, Christian minister and peace campaigner who was assassinated in 1968.

The think tank Ekklesia, responding to UK chancellor Gordon Brown’s ëBritish Day’ idea, has suggested that Dr King would be a good example for the kind of internationalist, non-imperial approach which could generate an alternative kind of patriotism.

Pax Christi are inviting students to work in teams of four to produce a two-minute PowerPoint presentation in CD format.

This presentation will be used as the launch material for a campaign to raise public awareness of peace perspectives in a violent world.

Full details of the contest, including registration forms, may be downloaded from the Pax Christi website under the ëYoung Peacemakers’ section.