On Wednesday 17 April 2019, the Sections of Cocody, Campus and Plateau co-organized the Book Club activity initiated by PLANETE PAIX in partnership with the United States Embassy in Côte d’Ivoire. Two books were broken by Mrs. SAVANE and KOUASSI. The discussions were on the books “Find His Why” and “Show Your Work”, written respectively by Simon Sinek, David Mead, Peter Docker and Austin Kleon. For Mr. SAVANE to find his why according to the author, it is to define our reason which is a long-term job. He give some precepts from the book to listeners to be a great leader. He urged them to identify what inspires them, to begin step by step to materialize what inspires them, to get rid of the people who choke them and to build a steering team. The second panellist advised to act on oneself, towards others and towards social networks. Inspired by the book, he recommended to be creative (Just a way of doing things that others have done), amateur (accepting to be wrong), thinking about death (time is limited). In addition, they must find a collective (the vampire test), give others their values and mobilize their networks. At the end of the activity all participants wanted more books and book club activities to help them increase their potential.

On Saturday, April 13, 2019, PLANETE PAIX-Gbêkè started an action of promotion of Peace at Universities with the subject : “Pacification of universities’ yards : resolution and mode of management of the conflicts”. Alassane Ouattara University, at Campus 2, specifically at American Corner, hosted the first activity. This action comes in response to the different forms of violence that are often perpetrated in this space, in particular, that which opposed the students and the prison guards.
The President of the of the Organizing Committee Constant Konan, thanked the participants, the Speaker, the members of the Organization for their presence, and welcomed their effective participation.
The President of the NGO Planète Paix-Gbêkè Marie-France Koffi, speaking, addressed her words of thanks to the Speaker, to the Central President of Planète Paix Achille COMOE, and to the participants. She also made a brief presentation of the international NGO Planète Paix, its objectives, its actions and its fields of action.
President Achille COMOE, addressed the conference participants through illustrations of school and university violence to show the need for peace in our schools and universities. He also thanked the participants, the President of the NGO Planète Paix-Gbêkè, the members of his team and the authorities present. He ended his speech by highlighting the actions of the Organization in the quest for peace in the country.
The representative of the Regional Director of Youth, Mr. Oulai Jean Jacques, ended the series of speeches. Mr. Oulai emphasized that students be sensitized on the need to respect University rules.
The speaker of the day, Professor CAMARA Moritis, Senior Lecturer in the History of International Relations, pointed out that ” University is a place of production, preservation and dissemination of knowledge” before attracting attention of the audience that the word “pacification” is not appropriate in the context that brings us together. The speaker explained that the word pacification is a military and colonial term. The use of such a term, related to the university space seems therefore incongruous and therefore unacceptable. This would help make this special area a theater of military operations, a war ground, in this case, it would be appropriate to pacify. Having lashed out at the behavior of certain actors in the university space who are similar in their manifestations to military operations, the Professor recommended dialogue as a way of resolving disputes that may arise between academic actors and between these actors and outsiders. For him, the appropriate word is “Normalization”. He concluded his communication in these terms : “When you know who you are, you adapt your behavior to what is expected of you”.

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On Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 9 :00 am, the first book club activity of the NGO PLANETE PAIX section – Gbêkè was held up on the topic : “The Challenges of Leadership Culture for African Youth”. The Panelists for this occasion were MM. Constant Konan and Gilles Amankon. The panel session was led by Miss Elena Abozan, Moderator. Mr. KONE, the Secretary General was the MC. Long before beginning the session, the President presented the NGO PLANETE PAIX and the context of the Book-club activity in her speech.
Afterwards, the panel began with the intervention of the vice-president, Mr. Gilles Amankon. In his presentation, he presented the book “Trouver son pourquoi”, authored by Simon Sinek and Davide Mead
After this presentation, the Speaker discussed the writing context of the book, the author’s guideline, the author’s definition of “Why”and many other information noted by the author in his book relating to the theme of the said activity.
The author explains how to discover one’s why through three stages which consisted of gathering memories, identifying recurring terms and formulating clearly and simply what is achievable in order to contribute in a meaningful way. significant to impact the community.
Finally, the Communicator made the link between the book of the author and the leadership of young Africans.
In short, knowing your “why” is the best way to achieve long-term success by taking advantage of more flexibility and innovation.
The second panelist took the steps of the first by presenting the book entitled “How to develop his leadership” with Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller as authors.The second panelist took the steps of the first by presenting his book entitled “How to develop his leadership” Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller
He began from the context of writing, a guideline and continued his presentation through several points raised by the author.
It is about the secret of leadership, assets, the goal, how to do better, the issue of sucess.
What to grasp in the second presentation is that “the true leader has nothing to do with the hierarchical level” patience, culture and listening must be for him levers. For KEN, a true leader must be helpful and temperate
The activity ended at 11:20 am, after the words of encouragement from the Corner Manager Mr Kla.

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Very pleased to have received from President ACHILLE COMOE in Lagos a recognition certification for the efforts I am making for peace in Africa. This April 02 being a special date, I thank God for adding another year to this valiant warrior who spares no effort to bring together African youth around common ideals. Proudly Ivorian, proudly African.
The Rendez-vous is taken in South Africa in April and the big appointment in Benin for the next international meeting of warriors for peace and development of the Continent in November 2019.

Steve Aidid Ndende