13th Africa Scout Conference
From September 3 to 7, 2007, The Association of Scouts of Rwanda (ASR) will host the 13th Africa Scout Conference in La Palisse Hotel in Kigali. This Conference, which will be preceded by the 4th Africa Scout Youth Forum, which will be held on August 30 to September 2, 2007, will have as a topic: “Scouting, an education for a peaceful world , united against violence”.
The dimension of peace was in the think tank of Baden Powell as of the origins of Scouting. The question of peace - and in particular of education for peace - was thus always a fundamental element of Scouting. In fact, the Founder of Scouting decided to put into practice all the tactics which he observed throughout his rich military career at the service of young boys, but this time from a point of view of peace. The principle of Baden Powell was to educate children and young people of all languages, cultures and religions to become, contrary to the military scouts, the scouts of peace hence his last message: “Try to leave this world, when you leave it, a little better than you found it while entering there”.
