The
2020 Youth Summit was held at the CHE Adventure Park in Hanwella from February
21st-23rd, welcoming 106 youths from across the country
to promote peace and reconciliation. Youth of all ethnic and religious groups
from five districts (Galle, Matara,
Negombo, Kilinochchi, and Ampara) were present to participate in a one of a
kind gathering to discover themselves and their peers together as members of one
human family.
The summit was organized and implemented through the GIZ Project
and is the culmination of a one-year mission to consolidate the ongoing process
of peace and reconciliation through the promotion of interracial,
interreligious and interethnic harmony, particularly among youth. The summit
included exciting team building activities, the opportunity to explore and
discuss religious diversity, the expression of the universal yearning for peace
and harmony through songs and planning the way forward in the shared interest
in lasting brotherhood.
