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Festival Distrital de la Juventud Cartagenera
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Distrital festival of Cartagenera Youth
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GENERAL COORDINATOR:
KAIREN WEAVING GUTIÉRREZ? Student of Right
Position: DISCIPLINARY COORDINATOR
Telephone: 3126686260
Electronic mail: kairengutierrez@hotmail.com

DESCRIPTION:

With the objective to consolidate the real and effective participation of the cartegeneros young people in the processes of construction of city, the Council of Youth of Cartagena coordinates the efforts of all the public and deprived organizations with supply of programs oriented to young people, to offer one week to them of activities that motivate them to introduce themselves in the dynamic ones of the society.

In magnoevento of opening with an ample concurrence of young people of all the layers, creeds, political races and ideologies, the week will be declared open in which daily events of all type will be made, referring to the subject of the youthful participation, in different sites from all the city.

JUSTIFICATION:

How Participates Youth?

Certain tendencies to the change in the form exist as youth participates in the society, some of this are:

The young people no longer trust the political institutions and are redefining the idea of democratic system. This is reflected in the little electoral participation, in student movements, unions, political parties, because in these instances they tend to feel manipulated by others based on aims with which they are not identified.

The participation of the young people tends to be more precise and discontinuous, although they value the participation like mechanism for the autorrealización and obtaining of profits.

The greater levels of asociatividad occur around religious and sport practices. This participation is conditional by socioeconómicas variables and of sort: the percentage of catholic medical instructors is reduced as low to the level economic partner, whereas the pentecostales evangelical associations find their greater support in the popular sectors; the young men are those that become jumbled more in sport associations.

Another associative tendency is the increasing importance of modality of informal character, such as the graffiteros, skaters, okupas and bands that from years 80 have arisen in the streets of the great Latin American cities. It also exists a negative version or it does violence to of these new forms of asociatividad, that include the gangs, the reivindicativos groups of shock, the Mafias, and others? (CEPAL, OIJ: 2004: 272), whose causes are associated with conditions of poverty, lack of opportunities (educative, of work), pressure of the pairs, culture of the violence.

In spite of the increasing conscience of the young people by emergent subjects this is not translated in significant levels of participation. Some subjects of interest of the young people are world-wide La Paz, the defense of environment, the human rights, the cultures of the original towns.

The mass media have an increasing incidence in the generation of new guidelines of youthful asociatividad. The centralidad of the audio-visual experience seemed to imply one? televización? of the public life, which implies an option to live conscious on the problems of the society, but not necessarily it jeopardize with those causes through the collective action.

A tendency to the exercise of the citizenship in virtual networkings that gives rise to a new way of participation whose space of reference is the bond between local spaces and global mobilizations by universal causes (like the ecology, justice, etc.)

the participation flood of the young people in voluntary military service groups, that can be explained by desire to contribute that they have the young people and because is an independent election to be member of a group.

Contrary to which he happens in the political parties, the young people do not feel cochosen or infantilizados; in addition? the voluntary action allows the involved young person to be placed like not marginalized protagonist and like, like supplier and not like employee, hero and not like victim, as commendable and not as object of suspicion on the part of the adults? (p. 274).

Promotion Of the Youthful Participation: The Transforming Leadership

the young people value the participation but at the moment this has other channels and motivations. In order to change the vision of the young people like object of the public policies, it is important to promote the youthful voluntary military service like a central axis of the public policies of social interest, so that these are also subject of political happiness that is to say, of which they aim to support other groups. It is also important to involve to the young people in the health problems that affect them more directly, such as the violence, the drugs, the infections of sexual transmission, the adolescent pregnancy, etc. As well as in the scopes of the work, where the precarious situation of the young people is to the base of the breaches of expectations between greater symbolic consumption versus greater difficulties for the material consumption, generating I circulate vicious of violence.

A strategy to promote the youthful participation is the qualification for the leadership, understood like which it facilitates the process of positive transformation of the groups in the spaces where they exert leadership by means of the construction of a shared vision. Given to the complexity and the speed of the changes, at the present time the leadership has received a great relevance like instrument for the transformations, promoting the adhesions of the others towards shared objectives and the accomplishment of actions to obtain them.

In this sense we could say that the leadership is not to do something by people (asistencialistas actions, nor either is to do something for people (service), but is to do something through people.

Against this background speech of transforming leadership, where the bonds between which exert leadership and the followers, occurs by means of a dynamic contract, still on of equality, based on the requirements of the situations and of the specific ideas or projects that they give content to the bonds. This contrasts with the traditional leadership, where beyond proposals the people gave themselves to the cause that the charismatic leader advocated without questioning it, cause that finished being he himself. If the leader disappeared, the group disarticulated.

At the moment in them leadership study puts more emphasis in the bonds between leaders and followers and in the people or groups who are their followers. This requires to work with the followers so that they are trasformen in subjects more independent and free, able to make decisions about his projects from life and to act more shared in common, that is to say, in conscientious people of rights and responsibilities. This formation acquires individual importance in the case of the young people? since one is individuals that are in a stage of formation like people and citizens, with options very opened and fertile, in spite of the possible restrictions of its familiar or contextual situations? (Blejmar, Nirenberg, Perrone: 1998: 6).

GENERAL MISSION:

To promote the improvement of the conditions that in the surroundings of the city, they prevent that the youthful participation is constant, real and effective.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:

To reactivate the participation of the cartageneros young people in all the processes that affect their quality of life.

Concientizar to the civil employees of the public and deprived organizations and to the community of adults in general, on the importance of involving to the young people in its activities, like strategy for the improvement of the coexistence, the governability and the productivity.

Youth actively prepares for the celebration of the bicentennial of the independence of Cartagena and Colombia demanding a real participation and exerting it!

May 29, 2008 | 6:47 PM Comments  0 comments

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