{"id":3937,"date":"2009-12-02T11:15:55","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T16:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=3937"},"modified":"2009-12-02T11:15:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T16:15:55","slug":"anti-violence-march-to-be-held-in-bo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=3937","title":{"rendered":"Anti-violence march to be held in Bo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A press release issued by the British Council states that a peace march will be organized on 5<sup>th<\/sup> December 2009 in Bo city by the young people in Dreams and Teams and Connecting Classrooms projects. The peace march will start at Methodist School Mission Road at 10:00 am and end at the Coronation Field in Bo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The peace march came about as a result of research which revealed that violence among people in Sierra Leone is increasingly becoming a culture. Because of this status quo, the organizers have thought it fit that the peace march will achieve the following: to encourage a culture of non-violence in youth and students nation wide; to bring about positive change in the lives of young people; to help students and young people become responsible and active citizens; to enhance peaceful co-existence among students, youths, the police and the nation as a whole.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These, the release went on to say, will be achieved through the following support; with the partnership of the anti-violence movement (established in over 20 schools), Youth organizations and peace clubs in various universities in Sierra Leone; with the collaboration of the Sierra Leone Police and the United Nations Integrated Office for Peace in Sierra Leone (UNIPSIL); though the support and co-operation of the Ministry of Education, Youths and sports and the teachers of the 30 participating schools.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The following people have been invited to grace the occasion principles and heads of schools; the Mayor of Bo city; The Resident Minister, Southern Province, the Local Unit Commander, Bo (Sierra Leone Police); the Deputy Director of Youths; the Deputy Director of Sports&rsquo; the Youth Ambassador in Bo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The release finally stated that other activities have been lined up to follow the anti-violence march which are: Sports festival on the 4<sup>th<\/sup> 5<sup>th<\/sup> and 6<sup>th<\/sup> December 2009; similar initiatives in other parts of the country; research workshops and the set up of active research clubs and peace ambassadors in schools.<\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ishmael Dugba &ndash; SEM<\/address>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A press release issued by the British Council states that a peace march will be organized on 5th December 2009 in Bo city by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,1],"tags":[1881,1882,870],"class_list":["post-3937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-uncategorized","tag-anti-violence-march","tag-bo","tag-british-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}