SPIRIT PEACEBUILDING MELALUI KOMUNITAS PEMUDA DI YOGYAKARTA
Abstract: This research
examines the role of youth-based community involved in pence movement on
promoting peacebuilding among youths In Yogyakarta and it surrounding. This
grassroots Movement as micro-level peacebuilding spectrum ruled by youth faces
more challenges in term of students’ brawls and othcr violence in which
peer-age youths have taken apart in this cases over last few decades. The
escalation -of youth violence represented by students of both from university
and senior high school getting involved in bowls has Increased to open the
access into public sphere and they have made scared everywhere by pointing ‘hoi
zone’ of violence. Peacebuilding process can lake an important role to end
youths’ violence by training to attain personal achievement, involving in
social activities and addressing a basic peace education so that a “peace” word
can be familiar one fid become part of their everyday’s life style with friends
in school instead of talking about harm and taking revenge against their enemy
from other school. Peacebuilding talkabout reconcilitation how to make peace
and live in harmony among the people by understanding indigenous capacities
which don’t merely focus on conflct resolution hut it takes time into
sustainable peace process. Youth community/ which concerns on peace movement is
the answer for eradicating youth’ potential violence in near future. It
accomodates widely-opened places, bridging dialog, inviting more and more young
generations to meet and talk each other, understanding identities and
respecting difference among them. Peace generations represents a community
which is active in conflct resolution and peace within youth society. In has
involved and initiated many youth activities concerning in peacebuilding
process by promoting its core’ values such as youth, participations, pluralism,
and active non-violence as the essential basic of its movement. In doing so,
youth in the community must be frontrunner for peace to make possibility of
achieving a real long-term gain of peace cultures and peace patterns, counting
for the peaceful means to practice. Youth initiatives, however, to
peacebuilding among their peer are exactly needed in process of sustainable
peace by intriguing indigenous capacities as main preference to make patterns
of peace culture
Penulis: BJ Sujibto
Kode Jurnal: jpsosiologidd150662