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There needs to be a multi-pronged approach to caste annihilation. Education is the first and foremost way to inculcate the values of equality. - Rajendra Senchurey on annihilating caste. #GPW21 #GenevaPeaceTalks

Rajendra Senchurey's story on peace comes from his own life experiences of being discriminated against. Hence his strong advocacy for ending discrimination based on identity. #GPW21 #GenevaPeaceTalks

Caste-based discrimnation should be annihilated. Unless everyone embraces each other, we cannot harvest the fruits of diversity. There is identity-based conflicts around the world and that shouldn’t be the case. This is not taken seriously by our policymakers, he says. #GPW21

Rajendra Senchurey (Nepal) speaks about caste discrimnation and varna system. A dalit, he changed his surname when he was nine. “I then realised that the change was just a primary concealment. I still had to face discrimnation in school, college etc.” #GPW21 #GenevaPeaceTalks

They are in that part of life when they are trying to figure things out. When you start treating young people like they are aware of their opinions and respect what they want, that changes a lot. Maria del Pilar on challenges of working with teenagers. #GPW21 #Genevapeacetalks

We talk about emotions, power of dreams and how dreams have no limits in Life Academy. It is important to empower teenagers with this possibility of having limitless dreams and possibilities- Maria del Pilar #GPW21 #GenevaPeaceTalks

That moment when I decided to do something about it. In my healing process, I founded Life Academy which helps young people to prevent suicides in Colombia and nearby countries. - Maria del Pilar, Colombia #GPW21 #GenevaPeaceTalks

In Colombia, not everyone is able to complete high school because they are taking their lives before completing high school. It took me time to accept the loss of a friend of 10 years - Maria del Pilar, Colombia #GPW21 #GenevaPeaceTalks

People keep talking about cost of living, inequalities, quality of air, access to health etc. Even if not explicitly, implicitly, people are always talking about peace - Anupah Makoond #GPW21 #GenevaPeaceTalks

An experience in high school made me realise how different life experiences can be even if people are from the same cities - Maria del Pilar, Colombia #GPW21 #GenevaPeaceTalks

This is from an ongoing event at @GenevaPeaceWeek "From the Personal to the Global - Experiences of Peace from Passionate Young Leaders"

It is important to recognise what is going on (around peace) and we need to increase diversity in the sector. We need to broaden our bases of representation in the peacebuilding sector. #GPW21 #GenevaPeaceTalks