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KIDS4PEACE made a whistle-stop visit to Wexford last week, as part of the first visit to Ireland of a delegation representing a small Jerusalem-based NGO.
The young people, aged from 20 to 25, and their leaders - from Moslem, Jewish and Christian traditions - met contemporaries at Wexford County Council where they exchanged stories about their lives and times.
Kids4Peace is a grassroots interfaith youth movement dedicated to ending conflict and inspiring hope in the Middle East and across the world, with a raison d’être to build interfaith communities which embody a culture of peace and empower a movement for change.
Hosted by the Ireland Israel Friendship League, the group held a series of meetings in Dublin and Wexford.
Kids4Peace’s values are based around diversity - in family background, political perspective and religious practice; equality - amongst men and women, religions and cultures, nations and peoples.
Their five-day itinerary included meetings with politicians, members of the Dublin City Interfaith Forum, staff from the School of Ecumenics in Trinity and the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation, representatives from Amnesty International, and university staff and students; along with visits to Leinster House, the Mansion House, the Chester Beatty Library, and Trinity College Dublin.