 What motivates me to build peace in my community is to one day live in a country where all our rights are being given to us and where everyone is being treated equally without any discrimination due to our ethnicity, color, political or religious beliefs. I want to connect with other young people globally because our mission the young generation is to interact with other peace builders from all across the world to exchange ideas in order to build a better future based on equality and peace. My name is Paula Anastem and I'm from America from Morocco. Last year I was a year 6th exchange student in the return to Wisconsin. One thing I feel very strongly about is peace. I want to contribute to peace building in both my community and in the world. Why? Because we need it. Because thousands of innocent people have been killed in their homes, because children have been taken out of their schools, because many infrastructures have been destroyed. All of this in war is because of war and conflict. And the only solution to save the world and its people is through peace. My contribution started small, through organizing and taking part in different service projects in my community. And now I want to connect with other young people who share my belief in peace building, to gain other perspectives and share mine so that peace becomes a reality everywhere. What motivates me to have peace in the community is basically I'm trying to get all the killings and the violence that's going on and I think it's time to make a change. I am for peace because I want to speak up for those families who lost loved ones and friends and also speak up for those who don't want to come up to the community and say something. I am for peace because our life has a very special role. I am for peace because I believe children have a good life outside. I am for peace because no mother wants to bury her child before that time. I want to connect with other peace leaders because I believe that we all should pitch in with different ideas to make this peace movement bigger and better for everyone because children is dying at a young age and we all want to go up and be something that we can do it together. Now the word peace has different definitions for different people but for me it signifies a complete way of life because I grew up and I was raised in the biggest and the most diverse city of Pakistan which is Karachi and I have seen different communities and people having conflicts with each other just because they were different. Now this is where peace comes in. If we solve our conflicts without violence nobody will be harmed. This is what motivates me the fact that no one will be harmed and the fact that the children of Pakistan, the children of my community will not be exposed to violence motivates me to be a peace builder. And I believe that interacting with people from different cultures is actually one of the most important things in peace building because it shows us how big, beautiful and diverse our world is and how much there is to learn and teach. And this can only be done by maintaining peace and not by violence. So let's get together and say yes to peace.