{"id":47992,"date":"2023-11-21T16:30:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T16:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/choose-dialogue-over-guns-says-youth-hr-defender-of-the-year"},"modified":"2023-11-21T17:36:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T17:36:39","slug":"choose-dialogue-over-guns-says-youth-hr-defender-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/choose-dialogue-over-guns-says-youth-hr-defender-of-the-year","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Choose dialogue over guns,\u2019 says youth HR defender of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>A ward-winning human rights defender Yoal Gatkuoth is appealing to young South Sudanese to choose dialogue over guns to safeguard the future of the country against violence.<\/p>\n

Also, an alumnus of the Mandela Washington fellow, Yoal says, during the 2016 violence, some of his relatives asked him to pick up a gun, but he rejected the call.<\/p>\n

He then decided to do something else and talked about human rights issues which exposed him to training and capability-building programs.<\/p>\n

Gatkuoth says through the training, he learned many ways of addressing issues without the use of violence.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got to know that if you don\u2019t talk it will come back to you, we have a home where I lost a lot of my relative\u2019s neighbours and my best friend during the crisis, in 2016. People were asking me to pick the gun as the only way and I said no,\u201d Yoal told to Eye Radio during an interview on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am very social and I got to know many people who tell me I am good at exposing human rights issues so with many trainings and capacity building I came to know there are many ways of addressing issues without violence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Yoal Gatkuoth is a renowned peace, social justice, and human rights activist and psychologist. He holds leadership positions with numerous youth-led \u2013organizations, youth clubs, and community associations.<\/p>\n

He is a Co-country coordinator for the African Artists Peace Initiative, the South Sudan chapter, and peace ambassador for the International Women\u2019s Peace<\/p>\n

Yoal is a YALI Regional Leadership Center of East Africa; Alumni and he is Co-founder and deputy Chairperson of the Civil Society Coalition on Defense of Civic Space.<\/p>\n

He presides over advocacy, campaigning, and lobbying, and organizes forums, dialogues and meetings with different relevant stakeholders and institutions based in South Sudan.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About South-Sudan<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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