| Sudan
Scaling-up People-to-people Peace Initiatives
Partners: LWR and New Sudan Council of Churches (NSCC)Sudan’s
civil war, complex and intractable, is one of the world’s longest
standing conflicts, and is driven by religion, oil, ethnicity, and ideology.
As many as two million people have died in the conflict, and an estimated
four million are internally displaced. Meanwhile, bombing, rape, enslavement,
and starvation have left a trail of devastation that has severely disrupted
regional stability and hindered development. Most peace initiatives thus
far have focused on minority elites and politicians, but the New Sudan Council
of Churches (NSCC) has pioneered a grassroots approach to peace programs,
targeting community leaders, elders, and women from different ethnic groups
in order to resolve conflicts among warring communities and factions.
Goal:
To bring ethnic groups, warring factions, community leaders, and women together
in order to seek possible solutions to the conflicts that fuel tensions
and prevent peace in South Sudan. The project will help the NSCC strengthen
peace-building and advocacy capacities through further recruitment and training,
and facilitate learning and information sharing through documentation of
the peace process.
LWR will focus on increasing the NSCC’s capacity to plan and implement
development projects in conjunction with its peace activities.
Objectives:
- Increased coordination among peace initiatives in Southern Sudan.
- Availability of reliable information for use in developing peace and
advocacy messages and tools, as well as an NSCC-developed Peace and
Advocacy strategy.
- Reconciliation of four primary warring communities through peace agreements
facilitated in two small peace conferences.
- Document the people-to-people peace process for replication by other
agencies.
Total LWR Support: $125,500 through 2004.
Peace Projects : Kenya,
Mauritana, Sudan,
and Tanzania.
Facts and links pertaining to peace in Africa and
the rest of the world
|
