31. Aug 09 - 18. Sep 09

The West Africa Peacebuilding Institute (WAPI 2009)

Accra, Ghana

 

(A Three-Week Training session in Peacebuilding)

31st August - 18th September, 2009

Accra, Ghana

 

The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) is one of the leading organizations in peacebuilding, conflict prevention, transformation and mitigation in Africa. The mandate of WANEP is to build the capacity of peacebuilding, development and human rights practitioners in West Africa in peace and security issues to promote and protect human security through context specific tools and indigenous techniques. To fulfill its mandate, WANEP holds each year, a three-week training session in peacebuilding at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) in Accra, Ghana.

 

WAPI was established to provide specialized, intensive, and culturally sensitive training in conflict transformation and peacebuilding to individuals, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), Policymakers, and other relevant actors from West Africa and beyond. For the past 7 years that WAPI has existed, it has provided the space and platform for the actualization of WANEP’s vision for the prevention and resolution of conflicts in Africa by Africans. Since its inception, WAPI has also been the learning centre within WANEP for networking and the exchange of best practices in peacebuilding.

 

Thus since 2002 WAPI has trained over 315 practitioners in peacebuilding paradigms; human rights; conflict, population movements and development; youth and peace education; gender and conflict, early warning and early response, etc.

 

Objectives of WAPI:

  • Develop action-oriented capacity for conflict transformation and peacebuilding
  • Increase the number of competent, informed and active peacebuilding practitioners in West Africa and worldwide 
  • Provide quality training in peacebuilding at a reduced cost 
  • Develop context specific and indigenous models of conflict transformation and peacebuilding that can be integrated with existing models 
  • Bridge the gap between policy and practice in peacebuilding

The training covers a range of courses on Theories and Practice of Peacebuilding, Facilitated Dialogue and Mediation; Women and Gender Mainstreaming in Peacebuilding; Youth and Peace Education, Human Security and Peacebuilding, Early Warning and Early Response.

 

WAPI 2009 will be held at Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre in Accra, Ghana from 31st August - 18th September, 2009.

 

Further details about the training can be found on www.wanep.org 

 

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