Young SDGED Advocate selected to attend Global Peace Summit in Dubai'2022 on a Fully Funded Package

Muhammed Kebbeh, a young SDGED advocate from The Gambia has been selected by the Global Peace Chain to attend the Global Peace Summit (GPS) in Dubai as a fully funded delegate. Out of hundreds of applicants, Muhammed is one of the 15 applicants that has been selected to attend the summit with all costs covered.

The Global Peace Summit is a summit organized by the Global Peace Chain. The Summit intends to bring together like-minded young people from around the world in order to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations by 2030. GPS Dubai will also engage in and organize community-based events and peace discussions to promote interfaith harmony, compassion, tolerance and combat violent extremism. Global Peace Chain aspires to build resilience, cultivate a culture of tolerance, inclusivity, interfaith harmony, coexistence, love, and social peacebuilding across borders.

Muhammed Kebbeh currently works as a Researcher at the College of Public Policy, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) in Qatar. His research focuses on mapping out and understanding international best practices on SDGED and developing a roadmap of localizing these best practices in Qatar, thus, making students in Qatar into becoming global citizens.

Muhammed also runs Educate a Generation, a youth-led initiative in The Gambia, where he and his team support the Gambia government's efforts by providing educational programs and resources to the country's poor youngsters. His most recent initiative in The Gambia is the construction of a boarding Quranic memorization school, which he intends to utilize to inculcate peace in the minds of the young population.

This year’s Global Peace Summit in Dubai’2022 will take place between 23 to 26 February and will bring together 150 young leaders and SDG enthusiasts from around the world to engage on various topics including inclusive economies, protecting liberty, public policy, community-based rehabilitation, human rights etc.