CSI Peace Foundation

“Everyone must be committed in the matter of peace; to do everything that they can ....Peace is the language we must speak.” — Pope Francis With the increasing spread of social media, the barriers to sharing contents about politics, current events, social events and religious philosophies have decreased considerably.   The social media is especially popular among youths, offering an opportunity to engage a population segment that has, traditionally, shown lower levels of political and civic engagement. In advance countries where people do things based on integrity, love for humanity and/or fear of the spiritual being, a church/mosque would be literally empty when the Pastor/Imam preaches anything other than a peaceful coexistence. Employees would close a company down; students would close down their schools when Managements dare to speak ill against a specific section especially the minority. Unfortunately here, you would be celebrated and be crowned a role model for being a p

A 24-year-old independent candidate is poised to become Igembe South MP if current tallies are anything to go by. John Mwirigi, who carried out campaigns on a bicycle, currently has 18,986 votes against Jubilee's Joseph Miriti who has 15,724. "We decided to elect him. He had no money for campaigns but he offered good pledges and his manifesto was good," a resident told The Star. Mwirigi is still a student at Mount Kenya University. He may be one of the youngest legislators in the next Parliament Tallying of results countrywide has been underway since most polling stations closed at 5pm on Tuesday. IEBC chair Wafula Chebukati said results being streamed are not final amid claims by the NASA coalition that the agency's system was hacked. The electoral agency said final results are being collated from forms 34A and 34B. By 9am today, it had received 28,000 out of the 40,883 form 3As across the country, which can be accessed on its online po

Good Leadership isn't necessarily about age. In my life-time, I have seen a governor of 40 years who can't afford to do anything for his people, not to talk about paying salaries. I have seen a governor who is as old as an ancestor doing amazingly great. I have seen countries where youth talk about issues and discuss solutions. Where citizens compete to make positive impact or footprint. They believe the problem for one is nothing but a problem to an entire humanity. On the other hand, I have seen young boys and girls with massive talents/gifts competing to be newscaster or announcers on topics they believe will undermine a person, region, religion or one funny political party.  Many people can argue that poverty is thr major driving force of the problems faced today by the youth especially in developing nations. Although they can't connect how a politician uses them for his selfish interest; How they can destroy their very own communities by burning