Funding cuts put humanitarian support at risk.
The Central African Republic (CAR) is making progress towards stability and security but major aid budget cuts threaten humanitarian operations there, a senior official with the UN aid coordination office OCHA said on Friday in New York.
Young people are increasingly affected by global events in this area. Gen Z and Gen Alpha seek clarity and constructive responses aligned with sustainable development and well-being (SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions).
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Ra reads conflict through ubuntu: I am because we are. The boundaries of the self are not fixed at the skin; they extend into the community. Armed conflict is therefore not only destruction of others; it is destruction of the self extended into community. For youth navigating ethnic and national conflict, this reframes peace not as altruism but as a form of self-preservation. The tradition asks: when the self includes the other, what does survival actually require?
From there he turns to conditioning. The mind runs on inherited patterns — fear, us-versus-them, the need to be right. When conflict news lands, those patterns take over unless they are seen clearly. Awakening is not a peak experience; it is the sustained capacity to see the pattern and choose a response that does not reproduce it. That is what self-inquiry means in the context of peace and conflict.
The shift that matters: what feels like a personal fault — me, broken, confused by helpless rage — is instead accurate response to a system and institutional structure that keeps producing the destruction of the communal field. The mind stops calling itself broken when it sees that the real disorder is in the conditions that make violence likely — and that those conditions can be changed.
Ra has seen this shift in practice rooms. It may help you as well.
Constructive next steps and dialogue continue to shape how communities and youth engage with these challenges.
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