Tutu wows PeaceJam teens
Denver - Archbishop Desmond Tutu looked across a sea of cheering teenagers from around the globe on Sunday, and told them not that only can they change the world, but they must.
"I look at you, and I am in awe," he said on the final day of an international call for peace and action called PeaceJam.
"You are the ones who are going to make this a better world."
The archbishop, a 1984 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, was one of 10 Nobel laureates to address the 3 000 young people gathered from 31 countries for the 10th anniversary of the PeaceJam movement at the University of Denver.
In the three-day run, laureates urged the world's youth to not just yearn for peace, but to take action.
Tutu said on Sunday: "The fact of the matter is, Nobel laureates don't come floating down from Heaven.
"There was a time when we were very much like you."
From writing letters urging the United Nations to push the government of Myanmar to change, to calling for an end to political imprisonment worldwide, the laureates not only encouraged, but demanded the assembled youth to answer the call.
'Small acts pay big dividends'
"And all of you are peacemakers. We are opposed to war. We stand for peace."
Tutu told the crowd not to be overwhelmed by the scope of the world's problems. Even the smallest acts pay big dividends, he said.
"You feed one child, you feed two children, that's important. That's how you make a difference," he said. "You make a difference where you are."
PeaceJam, founded in Arvada, Colorado, by Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff, is a global programme promoting peace through education and encouragement of the world's youth.
News source: www.news24.co.za
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