U.S. Institute of Peace

07/18/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 07/18/2024 09:10

Ugandans Wield Faith and Youth Against Climate-Fueled Violence

At age five, Muhsin Kaduyu began following his father, a respected imam in southern Uganda, on missions of peace - constant meetings, mediations, consolations and prayers among Muslims and Christians in their town and surrounding farmlands. So years later, Kaduyu felt sickened when Islamist suicide bombers killed 74 soccer fans in a crowd near his university, deforming and defaming his faith. That bombing, and an anti-Muslim backlash, ignited a life's mission that has made Kaduyu a prominent peacebuilder among millions of Ugandans who struggle for survival, prosperity and peace amid communal conflicts, violent extremism and growing climate disaster.