This week: women leading Liberia’s Day of Peace, young people in Mali signing their own peace pledges, and why so many of us are switching off the news.
LIBERIA · WOMEN FOR PEACE
Women lead Liberia’s Day of Peace
On 26 September, the New Liberian Women Organization (NETWOGE) and UPF-Liberia marked the International Day of Peace in Monrovia under the theme “Peace Starts With Me”, starting with a peace parade from the University of Liberia’s Fendall Campus.
Women’s rights activist Dr. Agnes Fortune Cannon gave the keynote on women’s empowerment and leadership. The day closed with three new Ambassadors for Peace: Dr. Cannon, Daogogoe H. Fahnbulleh and Bishop James Gaga Smith.
“Peace is not the absence of war. Peace is the presence of empowered women!”
MALI · YOUTH LEADERS
Young people in Bamako sign a wall of peace pledges
On 21 September, UPF-Mali joined several NGOs at the Youth Center in Commune III of Bamako to mark the International Day of Peace, with UNESCO’s local representative, a representative of the mayor, Ambassadors for Peace and youth leaders.
Partners signed a shared peace charter, and participants wrote and signed personal commitments on a Peace Commitment Wall, to be handed to UNESCO as their pledge to work for lasting peace in Mali.
FROM OUR MEDIUM
Are we numb to war and disaster?
There is only so much grief a person can carry through a phone screen. But if we tune out completely, the people living through war, hunger and displacement become even easier to forget.
42% of people across the markets surveyed now avoid the news sometimes or often, up from 29% in 2017, according to the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2026.
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