RedTalk #13 Mission One: Learn about youth promoting humanitarian values and life skills

Done!
Very interesting.
If we save a life, the person’s mind will change for sure too.
I have known cases of people who were helped by the Red Cross and come back to help and give something back, Im sure we touch a lot of hearts with everything we do.
The Strategy makes sense in this troublesome world.
It all will change with education.

choosing between saving lives and changing minds, cannot be taken on spot and once for all, it depends on the situation, saving lives should be chosen when people’s lives are threatened, while if there is no direct and critical threats we can choose changing minds.

I personally believe that you have to
save the life before you can influence the mind. BY SAVING THE LIFE, meeting
physical needs, the individual is more willing to be influenced toward social
change.

Saving lives and changing minds, are both important and linked to each other. But if I had to choose one of them;
I will choose changing minds.

Why?
Because with changing minds we can negociate, disscuss, solve problems, understand each other, avoid violence and get in peace. Then, we can save lives, protect livelihood, and strengthen capacity to response and recover from disasters.We have to know that changing minds and behaviour will take time and need much efforts and special means and tools.

Aims of Strategy 2020 are:
1. Save live, protect livelihood and strengthenrecovery from disasters and crisis.
2. Enable healthy and safe living
3. Promote peace, social inclusion and a culture of non violence.

Enabling actions of Strategy 2020 are:
1. Build strong national RC/RC Societies
2. Pursue humanitarial deplomacy to prevent and reduce vulnerability in the world
3. Function effectively as the IFRC

The link between Strategy 2020’s Strategic Aim 3 (promotion of social inclusion and a culture of non-violence and peace) and the role of young people in promoting humanitarian values and life skills:
Young people can promote humanitarian values and life skills because they have more energy, more willings, more dreams and more hopes. Youth are more active and strong and could easily understand, learn and practice knowledge and exchange experiences. Also youth are more responding and interating with discussion, bring questions and eggar to know and learn.

Save lives and changing minds are interrelated.
I will choose changing minds:
when we want to save the lives we must first change the minds of people. they must know that the vulnerable are suffering due to war, disaster, famine, epidemics … and they must feel their suffer
we must show our humanitarian action to people in order to convince them about  role of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent. then it will be easy to can save lives because all of people want to mark they imprints and help others (strengthen capacity to response and  recover from disasters)

Share..Understand..Act.. that’s our way in Red Cross and the Red Crescent mouvement !!!
==> So changing minds should automatically save lives!

Aims of Strategy 2020 are:
1. Save live, protect livelihood and strengthenrecovery from disasters and crisis.
2. Enable healthy and safe living
3. Promote peace, social inclusion and a culture of non violence.
Enabling actions of Strategy 2020 are:
1. Build strong national RC/RC Societies
2. Pursue humanitarial deplomacy to prevent and reduce vulnerability in the world
3. Function effectively as the IFRC
The link between Strategy 2020‚ Strategic Aim 3 (promotion of social inclusion and a culture of non-violence and peace) and the role of young people in promoting humanitarian values and life skills:
Young people can promote humanitarian values and life skills because they have more energy, more dreams and more hopes. Youth are more active  and could easily understand, learn and practice knowledge and exchange experiences. Also youth are more responding and interating with discussion.

I know an economist who who say its easier & more effective to change minds if there are fewer of them…
Not entirely for this reason, I’ll go with saving lives – a mind can only be changed if there is still life behind it. And I think the push from the Strategy 2020 is that “saving lives” must be extended to “saving livelihoods” as we’re certainly not about keeping millions alive in destitution & misery.
The other side, given the context of youth, is that their minds are often in flux & change anyway – the change you offer one day may be overcome by another influence the next. However, if we help establish environments where folks can move from positive to negative & back to positive mind-states without major or terminal damage, I believe that is a more resilient & hopeful community.

Saving our panet, Our home, is one of the biggest burden that i am carrying on my heart.
I am want to get involved, let share with each other on how we team up to becare for our home.

I’ll choose “Changing Minds”. The
reason I chose “Changing Minds” is that for us to experience change
in the way we do things, we need to see things in a different perspective.
Changing mindsets is a proactive approach; it entails getting people (governments,
volunteers and the vulnerable) involved in the process of change. When this is
achieved, then it will be a collective decision and the determination to
maintain the change will be resolute. Hence, when minds are changed, saving
lives becomes a lot easier.

The 3 strategic aims include:

Strategic aim 1: Save lives, protect
livelihoods, and strengthen recovery from disasters and crises

Strategic aim 2: Enable healthy and
safe living

Strategic
aim 3:
Promote social inclusion and a culture of non-violence and peace

The 3 enabling actions are:

Enabling action 1: Build strong National
Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Enabling action 2: Pursue humanitarian
diplomacy to prevent and reduce vulnerability in a globalized world

Enabling action 3: Function effectively
as the IFRC

In order to achieve Strategy 2020’s Strategic
Aim 3 (promotion of social inclusion and a culture of non-violence and peace), young
people should promote and imbibe humanitarian values such as; diversity,
tolerance and love for one another. They also need to promote and enhance their
communication, negotiation and leadership skills.

Strategy 2020 will provide the basis for the development of the youth strategy. The youth strategy
should address creative and innovative ways of implementing Strategy 2020 by
young people.

I would choose saving lives.  First and foremost, we are a humanitarian organization whose international recognition is based on saving lives.  Without that credibility, the work of changing minds would fall on deaf ears.  Actions do speak louder than words.
Secondly, we are all products of our life’s experiences.  The act of having your life saved by an organization such as the Red Cross would probably result in a major mind change.  I would argue that our strongest advocates are those who’s lives we save and those lives, I believe, positively impact the lives of others.
 

If I had to choose between saving lives and changing minds, probably I would prefer the second one.
The only reason for this choice is that I truly think that through changing people’s mind and letting them understand which are the risks linked to a “wrong” behaviour and so helping them change attitude you really can do something to help them have a better and longer life!

If you help people’s social inclusion then you will do your part in building stronger communities that will get stronger and they will be able to answer every kind of crisis.

Deb

Youthful greeting from the Philippines!

Choosing between saving live and changing minds is quite a difficult task.

As a youth, we can do more on the “changing minds” side. Why do we need to “change minds” in the first place? Changing minds is a more effective tool in addressing the humanitarian challenges of our current society over and above new infrastructures or new technology. 

By changing minds, we change individuals’ perspective putting on the “humanitarian eyeglasses” living the Seven Fundamental Principles of the Movement. 

By changing minds, there will be more people to help save lives and spread the humanitarian spirit of Red Cross. In years to come, human suffering will be lesser as there will be more compassionate individuals helping one another. With this, we will be shifting priorities from “saving lives” to “developing lives”.

Thank you.

Adrian Lopez

“Do more, do better, and reach further”
Strategy 2020 Aims:
1.      Save Lives.
2.      Enable safe and healthy living.
3.      Promote social inclusion and a culture of non-violence and peace.
 
1.      Which one?!
In the world today it’s pretty difficult to know which one to choose, almost like, what came first – the chicken or the egg. However, in saying that, as you are asking for us to choose, I would go with changing minds. I would like to believe that should myself and fellow humans learn basic survival methods, which will assist us in times of disaster; and learn basic life skills (especially communication) our day to day living, we could possibly start balancing out that chicken or the egg scenario.
2.      A link!
A link I see between aim number three and the role of young people in promoting humanitarian values and life skills is the youth is the future. Empowering youth with tools and skills that reduce harm and destruction in the future, is the future.  Having a greater understanding of communication will reduce stigmas and discrimination. Lowering levels of violence, teach tolerance. Finding a common denominator for all humans’, increases integration of the disadvantaged.
3.      Relationship!
Your Goals for the Global Youth Conference, in relation to strategy 2020.
This will assist in finding out what the youth want in relation to what is presented to date, therefore allowing you to build a stronger understanding of what is required – therefore falling directly in line with the IFRC strategy.
To provide the opportunity for youth to discuss and address humanitarian challenges in their communities .To provide input to the IFRC Global Youth Strategy -To arrive at a Plan of Action for Youth Activities, at the regional level to facilitate exchange and sustainability of initiatives among networks and partnersTo build new as well as strengthen existing partnerships
Let me know if you need anything else.
All the best
Sara

Dear Redtalk, 

My name is Mohammad Mohammad, from Palestine but I live in Geneva.About the question I could write what I think, of course the most values in this land is the human and we are always trying to save human/lives everywhere in this land as Red cross as or other organization governmental or nongovernmental trying to do that, I would say if I have to choose, I will choose to save the lives because if I could save the life I could maybe later on change the minds, but If I can’t save life automatically I will lose the human who I will not find after to change the minds, here I am speaking if that happen in natural disaster, or any disaster that not made by human. 

In other hand if the disaster made by human like wars for example I would say I choose to change minds rather to save lives, because if I could change minds I will be sure that will not be wars where will lose the lives….It is not easy to change minds but it is not impossible, and needs time. I think nowadays our problem in most world countries and especially in the third world is to change the minds and to give more values to the lives. 

If there is a link where I could go and see what other will say, I will be thankful to you 

Again I am sorry and I hope to start with you in next discussion.

sincerely
Mohammad

CHANGING MINDS

NOWadays, when everyone is busy…
when we don’t have time to think about those less fortunate and to understand
their needs… when we are busy earning money and extra money… when we don’t
think about poverty and hunger when wasting food… when we don’t care about
recycling but we are victims of the climate changes… when we are superficial
and indifferent, but demand carrying and attention… when we don’t care about
the marginalized ones, because we belong to a group… when we live in peace, so
why bother to do something for people in war zones … NOW we need to change
minds!!! We owe this to the present and future generations! And the most
important thing… we have the capacity and power to do this!

Nevertheless, I am sure that saving
lives is a good start in order to change minds of today’s Humankind.

J’ai déjà rempli ceci en anglais; mais si vous voulez joindre le plus de personnes possibles ; n’est-il pas possible aussi d’envoyer vosmessages en francais ? ce serait plus simple pour et en particulier pour moi
et si vous evey besoin de quelqu’un pour traduire; je suis volontaire

i think tyhat if a really have to choose one of these, i would choose save lives, because if we save a live, this person will realize about the red cross values and the importance of learn first aid, so the person will also change their minds

Life should be saved first because once lost is gone forover but in mind changing, it takes time and in some cases never works as it is today with Syrians. That is a good example of Mind changing while lives are lost every day.

well, saving lives and changing minds ,  this tag line is self explanatory. For changing minds, we first need to save lives. If we fail in our struggle to save lives, then we can’t accomplish the next  objective to  change minds. so, what I pursue from this tag line is first save the humanity, If you serve humanity well, it will ultimately lead to changing minds.

Changing minds! We are talking about a short term fix and a long term solution. If we save a life only for that life to go and kill other lives what purpose have we served? We should be changing minds and hearts; to see the world as one, to see humanity as one, to be compassionate, to be generous, loving, inclusive, helpful, concerned etc. 

My name is Ryan
Freeman and I’m a 25 year old Anthropologist who LOVES to travel.

Interestingly enough, saving lives can be changing minds, just as changing minds can be savings lives. Answering the paradoxical question of saving
lives or changing minds is a
multifaceted challenge. While the question itself seems simple enough, creating
an accurate answer is quite difficult. I initially decided my answer was
changing minds, but then had to give it more serious thought.

My
initial approach to this question was changing minds as it I thought it
would have the greater impact. My oversimplified approach was based on a single
idea, the more minds we change, the fewer negative scenarios we will have in
the world. While sounding good in theory, this approach may be too limited and
as it’s easy to puncture with hypotheses.

During
the RedTalk #13 Live Learning Moment, I listened to the various speakers and
comments arising to the “thought provoking question”. Something I picked up
during the discussion was the issue of timing. Asking when should we save lives or change minds is at the heart of
this question. While both are obviously important, deciding when, helped me
peel back a layer of difficulty in answering this question.

For
instance, I would say changing lives is a better short
term goal, whereas changing minds is a better long
term goal. I would argue that changing minds is a more
difficult task, thus being the ultimate objective. Not to detract from saving lives, but I would like
to use a quick example to illustrate my point. If a new driver doesn’t know to
stop at a red light, they will run the light and probably create an accident.
The short term goal would be to help the people injured (save lives) at the accident.
Whereas the long term goal would be to educate (change the mind) of the driver so
they don’t continue running red lights. If the car driver never learns to stop
running red lights, they will continuously increase the number or lives that
need to be saved. Alternatively, if we educate (change the mind) of the driver,
they will know to stop at red lights and greatly reduce the lives in jeopardy.

Expanding
off my final decision that changing minds is again more
important, I see several advantages of having youth promote humanitarian values
and life skills. First and foremost, the youth of today are the future of
tomorrow. Educating and implanting humanitarian values into the young will help
create a common sense of principals and ideas. Furthermore, it’s easier for the
younger generation to absorb and create these life skills as they have better
access to people, goods, services and information in this ever increasing
digital world. This can be clearly seen in during the RedTalk #13 Live Learning
Moment as it used two new technologies: Google Hang Outs & Youtube. Youths
of today have an advanced skill set available to use as learning avenues that
were previously unavailable.

I would choose changing minds. Changing minds can save live. People that have changed their mind toward bad behaviors can save their life in the long run.

Saving lives may be the route we choose in a crisis situation but in the long term it is the changing of mind sets that will make the difference.
I am currently working with a young woman who was target at a refugee camp for marriage by a man who was much older. This woman was marriend in her native country but then moved to “a better life” in a European country where her husban quickly changed personality – locking her in their accommodation, leaving her for long periods without any discussion or consideration. He is now seeking repayment for all the money that it has cost to pay her family and transport her to another country. He beats and systematically rapes her and has threatened her life with an assortment of weapons. Immediately her safety is paramount so she has been placed in a safe house, her family have been informed of the situation but do not want him prosecuted. If we can change some of these traditional arranged marrige practices to protect vulnerable young women and girls it will go a long way to alleviating the suffering (and sometimes death) expereinced by the victims.