Srilanka, May 9 -- In August last year, I travelled to Hiroshima and Nagasaki as part of the UNODA Youth Leaders Fund for a World Without Nuclear Weapons inaugural cohort. I received the opportunity as a volunteer youth coordinator for Sri Lanka Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons under the patronage of Forum on Disarmament and Development. Following an intense virtual course, 50 young people were selected for the study tour in Japan. It was a journey that reshaped my understanding of peace, memorialisation, and the enduring human cost of war. Nothing could have prepared me for the emotional gravity of walking through the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, standing in the Peace Parks, and listening to th...