I Think Peace and Justice

by Ahmed Shuaib Shaktima

  JANI: One of the modest contribution to this process consist of bringing together the twin field of participatory democracy and citizenship education, and promoting connections that will hopefully lead to improvements in theory, research and practice.

  PARTICIPANT: How can we apply democratic innovations to be successful and overcome some of the potential risks with these initiatives such as co-optation, clientelism, tokenism, parochialism, exclusion, internal inequalities which is more common in the practice?

  JANI: For now, we need an inclusive environment that encourage openness, dialogue, diversity of viewpoints, tolerance and broad analyses, all based on equitable criteria, clear links between deliberation, decision making and implementation and justice – oriented public policies.

  PARTICIPANT: Functionality of what you mention cannot overcome in a vacuum and good process does not happen by chance, I believe appropriate institutional arrangements are crucial.

  JANI: The institutional arrangements which are aligned with recent international approaches to “good governance” will be adopted, which include eight features: participation, rule of law, effectiveness and efficiency, accountability, transparency, responsiveness, consensus orientation and equity and inclusiveness (United Nation 2007)

  PARTICIPANT: What conceit with arena that constitute for many people entry point to political life and democratic space to develop a more horizontal political culture, consider the capacity of self governance for influencing political decisions?

  JANI: I believe deliberate adherence of rule of law, collectively elaborating fair and workable criteria, openness, responsibility, as well as social economy, cultural and political (capital) should be recognized for value addition.

  PARTICIPANT: Is there any differences between “self-governance” and “good governance?”

  JANI: While these two fields are part of the same parent and naturally bound to meet and connect, sometimes they act like the same family who often talk to each other.

  PARTICIPANT: I think you have thoroughly desert the process with proved un-reticent analysis in learning democracy in education (Institution) democracy in communities and aspire to learn democracy in participatory budgeting. I believe we are good to go with our play card for now.

  JANI: Well! We are good to go, but we mustn't tight-lipped our mouth so long. The more loquacious we are assertively with the outer voice in all the process, the better the communities.

  PARTICIPANT: “Better to keep our mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt”.

  Mark Twain

  JANI: “Well done is better than well said”.

  Benjamin Franklin

  PARTICIPANT: Waoh! Good to know, the knower knows the know to himself and hope to extend.

  JANI: I hope you enjoy these discussions and find it useful to know that man are not build in silence but in words, in work, in action/reflection and that the journey will inspires you to continue to take up your own critiques, learning and participation in democratic dialogues, debates and spares in your community.

  At this stage Jani took another learning dimension for her effort not to be isolated but to keep the members afloat and engender their community spirit through restorative justice, thinking in promoting connections that will lead to improvement of themselves for driven model on consensus, voting and participative justice circles with her team members.

  JANI: It’s nice to meet here again, you are all welcome to gathered here to press our position to think and discuss to have a complete accord on majority vote, consensus and proportional outcomes for participation in team building. Our integrative goals would allowed both sides of our disagreement to tolerate each other's position and a genuine commitment to this organization as a group. Over the pressure of tension within everyone on consensus and vote and proportional outcome. I believe we should understand some of the code of conduct from all members specifically on consensus, in chapter three of our party constitution, because consensus is an integrative goal to reconcile differences and which mostly affect us as young people.

  With this point, Jani then hand out printed role instruction to all the participants with the following contents below;

  · Firstly, all participants need to listen actively and with an open mind to each other's position even where they are not in agreement.

  · Where differences exist, members need to think creatively together about how diverse positions and expectation can be reached.

  · Members must be prepared to present their ' bottom-line' position, the terms upon which they can agree as well as their preferred teams (rather than withholding or hiding information, as a common adversarial negotiations).

  · All members position and concerns need to heard out fully- each individuals should be able to express dissent and each respect and welcome the different viewpoints of other members

  ·If at all possible, everyone who will be significantly affected by a decision should participate in all the consensus process.

  At this stage - Jani started debating with all the members on what was necessary to switch, either from a consensus approach or to vote by naming the group and elect any team members as their leader based of his or her physical health, moral uprightness and intellectual Knowledge to evaluatively influence the social structure that affect all disadvantage young people in the society.

  All the members feel that Jani was qualify to lead them, and their agreement was watertight and hard to wiggle out of. While others position were put on to the vote based on fairness and proportionality. Other position were also shared on the basic of coagulation of respective communities and individual capacity and ability and their agreement were sealed without any arbitrary. Now it's time to raise funds to build up an office centre, and in addition to raise advocacy funds through their efforts in such a manner to kick start all legislative procedure.

  All the team members started contribute towards the cost of the expenditure. So Jani also donated as well, and they are all very excited about themselves possibly getting on convention. Thereafter, the team members organized town hall meeting to discuss the macro picture of their life of today. The all think Jani was qualify to lead the congregation to give her personal background on the basic of knowledge, abilities and disposition.

  JANI: Oh my country burghers!

  The dream day has come!

  To think for ourselves,

  Along side with hope,

  To embark on our new vision,

  'Up- Up-Up! Up! Up!

  We can run with the strong will,

  When both of us clung together,

  To struggle for our ourselves

  Through raining days and sunny weather,

  With our permanent voters card,

  Not as snatcher ballot box away,

  Or sell our conscience for shrug shush,

  As a shame floating ‘voter,

  Much as we admit to vote,

  With great advantage on our side

  We may lose or win it.

  Hope you are of age 18 above; vote for your right!

  They will give all hope to put things in order,

  'All honour to those will to participate,

  I must not omit to say 'defend your right'

  They conquered, and why shouldn't we?

  That have not trace of corruption on us,

  Our reputation passed daily under their eyes.

  Long time ago, they promise you!

  But how or why, they don't understand,

  If they've promised you aught,

  Let them keep their promised,

  My mother told long ago (when we were sprog)

  Trees may wake and walk,

  'Meaning' we are the leaders of tomorrow.

  I'd think of what my mother said,

  And wonder what I can see now,

  The sprog grew without direction,

  What a pitiful statement ‘indeed’.

  To see the town’s folk suffer so,

  From their
speech was a pity,

  I saw with my eyes,

  To prove the snugly shape does on them,

  With finger-marks upon the wall,

  That none of them were made,

  Since the century are passed.

  Without known how is being done

  To see attrition and defection from the old time,

  Once access to power is about to lost

  To hold another strong ropes and climb again.

  Let the new time spark themselves harmoniously,

  With spirit fills by chord vision,

  Since the constitution has been amended,

  To avoid long time power over,

  I believe the boots that convene you; you feel.

  To start little in your neighborhood,

  To mature on the process and shine.

  For me I never leave my eyes unclosed,

  To disclose more than men believe.

  Since the dream day has come,

  Not to witness second, third, fourth time

  For wide tweak lamentation,

  Or growl for yearning snarly yawn,

  I tease going forward now,

  To glance at manifesto,

  To echoes more in my heart a voice for you

  What the ancient leader once told me,

  On my way to the Mediterranean trip

  If you will to know, lend me your time.

  He identified these and throw out to provoke me.

  “For as long as my father is alive, I remain a sprog.

  And if is breathlessly, witness see not.

  Is our parents not tired rolling wishing to weep?

  To see our friends wandering about;

  In Mediterranean rout for livelihood,

  By Mediterranean trembling lakes,

  And feel the foam sea,

  By the poisonous breeze.

  Upon the great deadly blue shark sea

  Nooooooo! Nooooooo! Nooooooo!

  They bluff our head to drink gari,

  In the mirage perfect sly,

  To show every sweet word make sense,

  But most time bring a weeping eyes,

  On streets and home and rolling quays,

  For mortgaging dream in illusion done by them.

  Wide enough through the landscape of your dream,

  But! The blast of the desert cried aloud,

  For inflict grave harm on innocent lad/lady,

  As they pass through the Wilderness,

  A poor route indeed, full of grief,

  That slid into:

  Rape- Rape- Rape!

  Rob- Rob- Rob!

  Starvation- Starvation -Starvation!

  Dehydration- Dehydration- Dehydration!

  Disease- Disease- Disease!

  Which can lead to death!

  “O my country burghers,

  A friend of my just tells me,

  Not so long ago,

  She's very hungry to make it,

  And she wish I'd let her go and try”

  The beaten path through the country side,

  By the Descent dangerous barcolic route.

  O friend, wise up,

  Take the nasty through away,

  Keep your eyes wide open,

  Keep your minds green,

  Keep your somber alluring,

  Should you and all our friends fall dead?

  Through the basking sharks in dead sea Wreck,

  Do not fall prey to criminal sly,

  For coax economy prosper,

  No safer and easier trip across the border,

  Urge to choose the aflow and ablow legal path,

  Never to accept anything true which is not clear,

  Or expect anything original from an echo.

  “It all seems too good to be true!”

  “Say no! Say no! And no!

  To heavy grievous grueling breathing sea,

  O the brutish beguiling brooding trail,

  When‘ll we all smile to Wilderness,

  Or plant an apple tree over our heads,

  Without any bumpy sound,

  Or bold ruefulness tone.

  For now, I cannot be a moment still,

  For the ancient leader trenchant to hold you long,

  Since his words not for old codger concorded looking,

  But to give us all the necessary tools,

  To rebuild peace and justice within ourselves,

  Not to compromise our destiny,

  Or flung ourselves down in low despair

  For plunges of low degree;

  But our luck can brave attempts,

  To led us aright;

  To tried once more as we tried before,

  Through our strength journey root,

  To illumined the land of brawl,

  With a voice so wild and free

  Not to sit down to grieve,

  Or stand and starred with fear,

  Through the thorny hedge,

  Into the thorny, thirstily world,

  Of whom the world might say,

  Unwept over our contents humble tools,

  To rebuild peace & justice within ourselves.

  Let he that feel the wind think,

  Let he with ear understand my lyrics,

  Let he with 'didactic' understanding feel with me,

  Let he that use my blueprint rejoice around,

  Since we live from day to day in joy,

  To use our cantor words of a future dream.

  Oh my country burghers,

  The dream day has come,

  To bound each to each by natural piety,

  With heart leaps up when we behold;

  The world rejoice around,

  With great blurb as it could hold.

  PARTICIPANTS: (Chanted)

  Oyoyooooo!

  Oyoyooooo!

  Oyoyooooo!

  For advance serialize publicity larping Boom!

  MEET JANI OVER ACTION- LEARNING CONTENT IN SCENE EIGHT.

  SCENE EIGHT

  Action - learning :( Aimed at finding solutions to an organization's problems)

  At this stage, all the participants think the task ahead of them is very huge. So the affirms to look for something else to do in order to rise funds and compliment an effort to have a well- informed citizenry in other community and society in general. Jani kept in mind to approach certain developmental organization to seek for funds to finance for their electoral process or better still unfreeze her skills and ability for a reputable private organization so as to work and gather little money if need be for better funding of their dream project.

  JANI: Good morning Sir.

  MD: Young lady, you are welcome! You can have a sit.

  JANI: Thank you Sir.

  MD:May I meet you?

  JANI: My name is Jani a graduate of African Thinkers Innovative College (ATIC). I'm here to enquire about the job opening which was advertise a week ago on motto newspaper for the post of consulting.

  MD:Yeah! Over a week the particular post was advertised, but we need a capable hand to handle such position.

  JANI: Sir! 'You mean capable hand' what is the job role description like?

  MD: Over the three years our organization had been doing well, but now it is floundering. Relationship between membership and customer are at an all- time low. The context is changing and the leadership has lose touch. Internal conflicts are rampant, and the members are being neglected. Clearly something needs to be done. Three consultants had been contracted to help us sort things out with the sum of $2 billion. All their proposal make sense, but none of them have worked and we continue to flounder.

  What do you offer that can make a difference?

  JANI: My special advice is that you learn from experience and arrive at your own solutions. I can't change your organization, you know for more about this organization than you think you do; and certainly more than I do. What you need is a process that will help you believe in your own abilities to find solutions that work for you with what you see.<
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  MD: 'On the face of it you seem to offer us even less than the other consultants yet you still want to charge $2 billion. Why should we trust you to take us through such process when even you don't know where it will end up?

  JANI: I can't convince you to trust me' but I suspect that you don't trust yourself. Yourself are causing the problems, you have turn that around and become the instrument of your success.

  MD: Young lady! Take a look at the recent descent dismantling by the dolt’s vampire in my vicinity and you still want me to believe you!

  JANI: No! No! I don't say outsider can't solve organization problems the way other people describe, but if so wish you have see beyond your scope or use your practical app principles that is deeper and more enduring to give a true sense of security in time of emergency.

  MD: Cogito, ego sum (I think therefore, I am). You are being honest, and also think you have already recognized the problems here, which is our belief that the problems and solutions lie outside of this room and outside of ourselves.

  JANI: Thank you sir.

  MD:You sound very crank, canny, erudite and masterly and it seems you work at the Harvard MBA.

  JANI: (Laugh) Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

  I never can tell:

  To keep out louder,

  To boldly remarked;

  To pronounce good

  For easily dignified.

  Looking little though wondrous brain:

  For the swore of my constellation;

  You puff piece my worth in consternation!

  To blows once bet a pound and dollar,

  Through the triumph of my dream.

  NOT TO GLIMMER WONK on my shadows

  To- give- to reach-the top.

  I'm sure- I can- I will- get there,

  On earth or in the Air?

  By the mercy and grace of my creator,

  One joy from the vale to the height,

  On my smooth and shining tracts!

  Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

  MD: Young lady! Are you alright?

  JANI: I’m okay! “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing”.

  Dale Carnegie

  MD: Woh! You’re funny!

  JANI: (Smile) No! No! No! I’m scholar, I sometime laugh at myself.

  MD: Really!

  JANI: Yeah! Using humor sometime to address difficult issue by me can make a more profound impact to achieve my purpose.