ENHANCING THE PEACE BUILDING KNOWLEDGE

Read.......Risen level of cultism in Lagos, Nigeria

Peace Building Experiential learning, La'Niyi Africa.

Experiential learning is critical for acquisition of peacebuilding competencies and for their application to peacebuilding processes. In order to internalize knowledge, skills, and attitudes, children need immediate and relevant opportunities to practice peace. Schools, families, communities, local, national, and international governments, as well as other social institutions, can provide those opportunities. They can create spaces of

meaningful participation by which children can rehearse their emerging peacebuilding competencies.

Peace building Experiential learning, Adewumi Samuel (Gwise).

Children, through leadership, advocacy, service, civic engagement (as well as technology or other innovative approaches) can also exert their collective agency and acquired skills to carve out their own spaces for peacebuilding participation. This is a rich area for learning and practice. By taking a bi-directional approach to involving children in peacebuilding processes, with both children and social institutions opening new opportunities for children’s participation, we can create new blueprints for children’s roles and responsibilities for peace and social engagement.

Children roles for peace facilitated by AFCA (Africa Change Agents) and GCPI

The GCPI (Gwise Constructive Peace Initiative) has been working hard on building trust between youths and their influencers (include Parents, Teachers, Local Leaders and Government). We are achieving this through our networks of already established schools and communities peace clubs/Groups, currently we lay hold of 14 peace groups in conflict proned Communities in Lagos and Ogun States.

Many people do not understand what we gain from dedicating quality times on Saturdays and Sundays in creating spaces for youths to express their opinions (while we listen to them all day). We believe that engaging the teenagers/youths constructively in these times of violence rise in Lagos (6 out 10 youths are cultists, Lagos commissioner of police reported, read link above) is key to inducing sustainable peace in the short and medium run. For intance at Imude community, Lagos, where one of our peace groups is based, the residents (Mostly Youths) now resorted to seeking advices/Solutions from their community leaders to resolve conflicts for them. They meet the best solutions to such reported cases of tensed conflicts because these Community leaders have been trained overtime on conflict management and alternative dispute resolution method by our team.

There is no faster means to achieving peace than mutual understanding of unresolvable conflicts by the perpetrators of Violent and the resolvers. That is an instant of growing sustainable peace at community level. At GCPI we look at the major drivers of Violence existing in a particular proned community, get residents profiles, and seek for the best method to engage the community youths and stakeholders in embracing peace.

GCPI founder/ director has learnt deeply from the violent extremism face in the North-East part of Nigeria and has positioned himself to preventing such rise in the south-west of the country. We established GCPI because we believe that sustainable peace is possible, even at the point of unresolvable conflicts. Prevention is better than cure, we don't have to wait at the point where Violence and insurgency starts taking control before we start fighting for peace.

Contact AFCA here; La'Niyi Africa
Name: Jimoh Olaniyi Samuel (also GCPI contact person)
email: gradmol01@gmail.com or Mail GCPI
Phone:+2349073423053
Whatsapp:+234815074294