The management of disputes and conflicts in the society is one of the
primary and enduring responsibilities of all governments and, therefore,
one of the pre-eminent areas in which the UN can serve its Member
States. One aspect of the increasing United Nations system-wide priority
given to conflict prevention and management is the strengthening
of the governance capacities of States to manage and regulate conflicts
in constructive and non-violent ways. As such, several
capacity-building projects are being undertaken to strengthen awareness
and necessary skills to government officials and their civil society
counterparts, to assist them to anticipate and respond to crises, to
work effectively in conflict-prone environments and to increase their
ability to defuse tension and address the inequalities that may generate
violence.
The projects involve strengthening governance institutions, enhancing mechanisms for participation, supporting the development of mediation facilities and other forms of alternative dispute resolution, and providing skills training to enrich national development policy and practice with conflict resolution principles, tools and techniques so as to better harness development as a vehicle for sustainable peace.
As the UN, UNDP and the international community grapple with the profound political and socio-economic transformations of the last decade, the development environment has become more complex and the relationship between the related policy areas interfacing with the development process, more interlinked. The indisputable link between peace and development has become apparent. Development without peace is not sustainable and peace without development is not durable. The linkage between the two needs to be understood, strengthened and operationalized so that policy and practice in these related areas can be mutually reinforcing. Moreover, actualizing the linkage between development and peace is directly related to building governance capacity. It requires developing institutional and human resources for managing diversity and disputes in stable environments, building capacity to mitigate disputes in emerging conflict situations, and developing governance mechanisms to support reconciliation, co-existence and conflict management efforts in post-conflict situations.
Such an integrated approach to capacity-building in conflict management will assist sub-Saharan African countries (as well as intergovernmental and bilateral aid agencies working with them) to strengthen their local capacities to regulate internal and inter-state disputes constructively and non-violently. It will redirect conflict management policy and practice toward upstream measures that decrease the likelihood of outbreak, recurrence or continuation of violent conflicts and strengthen the prospects for peaceful coexistence, human security and sustainable development. Over time, this can transform conflict-habituated systems locked in cycles of destruction and promote coexistence in ways that are sustainable and have beneficial impacts on overall development objectives.
While the international community has recognized the need for broader, systemic conflict prevention and management, the current orientation is often still limited to "early" warning, conventional diplomacy, emergency operations and peace-keeping, all of which are usually too late, piece-meal, and reactive, rather than proactive. A developmental concept of preventive action would formulate and implement proactive preventive strategies for communities at risk of violent conflict. The overall objective of this project is to develop diagnostic, analytical, planning and training instruments that will help African governments and their civil society partners to formulate proactive policies and strategies for managing disputes and diversity in their societies in preemptive, constructive, non-violent ways. These instruments will:
(1) Support policy-making, institutions, and mechanisms to manage and regulate disputes before they escalate into violence; and,
(2) strengthen governmental and NGO capacities to further national development objectives by integrating conflict management concepts and practice into their policies and programmes.
Building capacity in conflict management can play a major role in preventing and ameliorating conflict by developing individual and institutional skills that can promote a culture of constructive problem solving, cooperative negotiation, dialogue and dispute resolution throughout society. This project aims to develop and test instruments that can be used to build national capacity for managing diversity and conflict by transferring analytical, policy-making and practical skills to government and civil-society decision-makers to:
o analyse the structural and proximate causes of conflict.
o anticipate potential areas of dispute and develop appropriate responses for promoting peace as well as averting violence (preventive action and response development).
o understand and employ dispute resolution principles and practices
o strengthen institutional capacity for managing diversity and conflicting interests.
o use development tools in ways that mitigate the long-term, structural, as well as proximate, causes of conflict.
These objectives will be accomplished through an integrated programme of research, policy consultations, resource development and information dissemination focused on four major themes: early warning analysis, national capacity-building in conflict management; dispute resolution skills development, and the integration of conflict management into development work. The resources gathered from thematic specialists will inform a series of policy consultations, round table discussions, brainstorming sessions and training modules which will be formulated for government and civil society decision-makers. Written manuals, which will include instruments for analysis and programme development in each of the core areas, will emerge as tangible products of these seminars.
The objective of the advisory services will be to conduct needs assessments and provide subject-specific expertise to help infuse conflict prevention and management principles into available aid instruments, policy frameworks, project formulation and implementation as well as the working practices of development ministries, aid agencies, NGOs, CBOs, etc. The aim of informational services will be to provide current and relevant information, materials, literature and bibliographic references to governments, civil society actors, UNDP, and other UN system and aid agencies.
The Centre for Crisis Prevention and Peace Advocacy (CCPPA) is fully committed to the cause of result oriented projects, programmes and activities in this regard and has commenced in earnest various capacity building trainings in collaboration with the Arewa Citizens Action for Change(ACAC) across the Nineteen northern states of Nigeria.CCPPA wishes to use this medium to invite all and sundry to avail themselves of the opportunity to acquire conflict management skills. Get skilled and be a vanguard of Peace!
The projects involve strengthening governance institutions, enhancing mechanisms for participation, supporting the development of mediation facilities and other forms of alternative dispute resolution, and providing skills training to enrich national development policy and practice with conflict resolution principles, tools and techniques so as to better harness development as a vehicle for sustainable peace.
As the UN, UNDP and the international community grapple with the profound political and socio-economic transformations of the last decade, the development environment has become more complex and the relationship between the related policy areas interfacing with the development process, more interlinked. The indisputable link between peace and development has become apparent. Development without peace is not sustainable and peace without development is not durable. The linkage between the two needs to be understood, strengthened and operationalized so that policy and practice in these related areas can be mutually reinforcing. Moreover, actualizing the linkage between development and peace is directly related to building governance capacity. It requires developing institutional and human resources for managing diversity and disputes in stable environments, building capacity to mitigate disputes in emerging conflict situations, and developing governance mechanisms to support reconciliation, co-existence and conflict management efforts in post-conflict situations.
Such an integrated approach to capacity-building in conflict management will assist sub-Saharan African countries (as well as intergovernmental and bilateral aid agencies working with them) to strengthen their local capacities to regulate internal and inter-state disputes constructively and non-violently. It will redirect conflict management policy and practice toward upstream measures that decrease the likelihood of outbreak, recurrence or continuation of violent conflicts and strengthen the prospects for peaceful coexistence, human security and sustainable development. Over time, this can transform conflict-habituated systems locked in cycles of destruction and promote coexistence in ways that are sustainable and have beneficial impacts on overall development objectives.
While the international community has recognized the need for broader, systemic conflict prevention and management, the current orientation is often still limited to "early" warning, conventional diplomacy, emergency operations and peace-keeping, all of which are usually too late, piece-meal, and reactive, rather than proactive. A developmental concept of preventive action would formulate and implement proactive preventive strategies for communities at risk of violent conflict. The overall objective of this project is to develop diagnostic, analytical, planning and training instruments that will help African governments and their civil society partners to formulate proactive policies and strategies for managing disputes and diversity in their societies in preemptive, constructive, non-violent ways. These instruments will:
(1) Support policy-making, institutions, and mechanisms to manage and regulate disputes before they escalate into violence; and,
(2) strengthen governmental and NGO capacities to further national development objectives by integrating conflict management concepts and practice into their policies and programmes.
Building capacity in conflict management can play a major role in preventing and ameliorating conflict by developing individual and institutional skills that can promote a culture of constructive problem solving, cooperative negotiation, dialogue and dispute resolution throughout society. This project aims to develop and test instruments that can be used to build national capacity for managing diversity and conflict by transferring analytical, policy-making and practical skills to government and civil-society decision-makers to:
o analyse the structural and proximate causes of conflict.
o anticipate potential areas of dispute and develop appropriate responses for promoting peace as well as averting violence (preventive action and response development).
o understand and employ dispute resolution principles and practices
o strengthen institutional capacity for managing diversity and conflicting interests.
o use development tools in ways that mitigate the long-term, structural, as well as proximate, causes of conflict.
These objectives will be accomplished through an integrated programme of research, policy consultations, resource development and information dissemination focused on four major themes: early warning analysis, national capacity-building in conflict management; dispute resolution skills development, and the integration of conflict management into development work. The resources gathered from thematic specialists will inform a series of policy consultations, round table discussions, brainstorming sessions and training modules which will be formulated for government and civil society decision-makers. Written manuals, which will include instruments for analysis and programme development in each of the core areas, will emerge as tangible products of these seminars.
The objective of the advisory services will be to conduct needs assessments and provide subject-specific expertise to help infuse conflict prevention and management principles into available aid instruments, policy frameworks, project formulation and implementation as well as the working practices of development ministries, aid agencies, NGOs, CBOs, etc. The aim of informational services will be to provide current and relevant information, materials, literature and bibliographic references to governments, civil society actors, UNDP, and other UN system and aid agencies.
The Centre for Crisis Prevention and Peace Advocacy (CCPPA) is fully committed to the cause of result oriented projects, programmes and activities in this regard and has commenced in earnest various capacity building trainings in collaboration with the Arewa Citizens Action for Change(ACAC) across the Nineteen northern states of Nigeria.CCPPA wishes to use this medium to invite all and sundry to avail themselves of the opportunity to acquire conflict management skills. Get skilled and be a vanguard of Peace!
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