{"id":5782,"date":"2025-09-29T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=5782"},"modified":"2025-09-29T17:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:22:06","slug":"lakes-state-commemorates-international-day-of-peace-with-calls-for-unity-and-rejection-of-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=5782","title":{"rendered":"Lakes State Commemorates International Day of Peace with Calls for Unity and Rejection of Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Rumbek \u2013 Al-Wadi Newspaper<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lakes State marked the <strong>International Day of Peace<\/strong> yesterday with a large and diverse celebration attended by youth representatives, civil society members, local authorities, and international partners, including the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event featured powerful speeches emphasizing the importance of promoting a culture of peace, dialogue, and coexistence among communities, while firmly rejecting all forms of violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Laat Majak<\/strong>, Chairperson of the Rumbek Centre Youth Association, stated:<br><em>&#8220;Our actions today shape our future. Let us be champions of peace and non-violence.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For his part, <strong>William Koji Kerjok<\/strong>, Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports and Acting Minister of Information and Communication, reaffirmed the government\u2019s commitment to peacebuilding efforts within local communities.<br><em>&#8220;We will not tolerate acts of violence or revenge attacks. In collaboration with UNMISS and other partners, we will bring conflicting communities to the table to resolve their differences peacefully,&#8221;<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This celebration comes at a time when both local authorities and international organizations are working to strengthen community reconciliation in Lakes State, which has experienced intercommunal conflicts and tribal unrest in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumbek \u2013 Al-Wadi Newspaper Lakes State marked the International Day of Peace yesterday with a large and diverse celebration attended by youth representatives, civil society members, local authorities, and international&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5784,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782\/revisions\/5784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}