Deadline: 15th January 2022 | Age 15-27 | The YPC 2022 aims at empowering youths with learning opportunities to share their experiences and ideas about how to promote and build peace in their daily lives, communities, and society in their country as well as internationally in accordance with the PyeongChang Peace Spirit born out of the historical PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games.
The first YPC was organized at the 3rd PyeongChang Peace Forum (PPF) 2021 as a way to promote youth participation globally.
PyeongChang Youth Peace Challenge (YPC) 2022 is a peace and global citizenship education program in the form of an essay and group debate for youths who are interested in engaging with peace-building and peace-making in the context of the UN Decade of Action to Deliver the SDGs by 2030 and the UN Declaration on the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the UN in 2020.
Outline
- Type of Program: Essay contest and group debate. Those participants selected from the essay contest will be invited to join the group debate online.
- Working language: English
- Team composition: individual or a team of maximum 2 persons of any nationalities
- Eligibility Age: aged 15 to 27 (born between 1 Jan. 1994 and 31 Dec. 2006)
- Theme for the Essay: How to implement the proposals contained in the Our Common Agenda report of the UN Secretary General from a peace perspective as a youth in your country and/or internationally.
- Our Common Agenda (OCA) Report https://www.un.org/en/un75/common-agenda
- The length of the essay: between 3,000 and 4,000 words
Timeline:
| 20 December 2021 | Pre-registration Online |
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| 21 December 2021 | Orientation about YPC 2022 |
| 15 January 2022 | Deadline for the registration and submission of the essay |
| 16-20 January 2022 | Selection of the participants for group debate |
| 21 January 2022 | Orientation about Group Debate |
| 24 Jan to 8 Feb. 2022 | Preliminary round(s) of group debate |
| 15 Feb. 2022 | Final round of group debate (10 teams) |
| 22 Feb. 2022 | Presentation of the essays by 10 winners and award-giving ceremony during the 4th PPF (Metaverse) |
| Feb. 2023 | Participation in the 5th PPF |
Find out more and apply at the official link below:
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Apply before 15th January, 2022