By Matters India Reporter

Chiang Mai: The Christian Conference of Asia (CCA) will organize a week-long training on “Young Ambassadors of Peace in Asia (YAPA) at the Payap University in Chiang Mai, Thailand in next May – June 2018.

“The YAPA program’s main aim is to train a new generation of young peace activists and nurture their role in respective societies as peace builders,” CCA general secretary Reverend Mathews George Chunakara said.

The YAPA training focuses on intercultural and interfaith learning as a base for addressing topics, such as conflict transformation and peace building, he added.

It stresses the links between intercultural and interfaith dialogue, human rights and conflict transformation as key elements in long-term sustainable peace processes while exploring and developing the participants’ knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values, Chunakara said.

Another major youth event is in 2018, which titled as “Asian Ecumenical Youth Assembly on Peace in Asia.” It will focus on ‘Youths for Building Peace in Asia’ in Manado, the capital city of the North Sulawesi province of Indonesia.

CCA was founded in 1957 to promote ecumenism among different churches across Asia.