So we also want to show the rest of the world that the role of the child must be elevated, and there are moments in acute crises in countries when children have to make up part of the solution, because all the countries say children are the future of the country. But we are not the future, we are the present, a present which we all have to build together. With their second Nobel nomination in two years, the Colombian Children's Peace Movement is clearly making waves on an international level. But in their own country, public acknowledgment hasn't always come easily. Dilia says the group has never been manipulated in any way.
Guidance is something else.
That is one of the fundamental jobs of adults. They give us guidance, but all of the initiatives have come solely from us. We thought of the mandate. In the three years since the vote, the children have not stopped working, and even the most hard-nosed journalists agree that the children have had an impact on their country. Despite threats, Wilfrido promotes peace in his neighborhood by gathering children to sing and dance together Jeremy Lennard, a correspondent for The Economist, says he believes the movement has played a significant role in molding society.