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Peacebuilding Institute of Africa-Kenya (PIA-K)
A Peacebuilding Institute Affiliate
ACTIVITIES REPORT We have had an extra-ordinarily busy schedule since December reaching out to communities with trainings on Conflict Transformation, Do No Harm Principles and setting up Conflict Early Warning & Early Warning Response systems that are controlled and managed at the community level. We have also reached to over 10,000 people who required support in psychosocial and trauma healing. 7,500 of the people we have reached are mainly children and women who were abused seriously during Kenya's Post Election Violence of December 2007 and January 2008. We have also trained 350 Pastors, Priests and Evangelists in the same thematic fields that aim to increase and strengthen Community Based Structures that "increasingly add justice within social-political, cultural and economic systems in Kenya", and thus lowering possibilities and intensity for violent conflicts. The inverse relationship between increasing justice and lowering violence is proving to be real, and some valuable investment on the people who facilitate process for "increasing justice" at all levels.
Following the trainings,
community members have identified the need to train 100
compassionate volunteers for Justice, Conflict Transformation
and Peace. Peacebuilding Institute will train the
volunteers, who will in turn invest in community structures (300
Peacebuilding Committees; 4,500 facilitators of
mediation/dialogue for Conflict Transformation; Community
Symposium; and Conflict Early Warning and Early Response using
Short Text Messages).
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Concept Note:
Funding for the Critical Needs of
Nurturing Sustainable Justice and Peace at the Epicenters of
Kenya’s Summary
Project Description The proposed project, namely nurturing sustenable Justice and Peace at Kenya’s hitherto epicenters of chronic violent conflicts, is an innovative response to Kenya’s Post Election Violence that led to deaths of over 1,200 people, displacement and psycho-social trauma of over 700,000 people, and unprecedented tension, hatred and phobia among people of diverse ethnic groups in Kenya. The project targets to build capacity of 100 compassionate volunteers for Justice, conflict transformation and peace. Through professional training on Peace and Conflict, the project will enhance effectiveness of the 100 volunteers to be effective volunteers in transforming conflicts in 20 Kenyan communities. 30 of the volunteers will be women leaders of Community Based Organizations, while another 30 will be clergy from major Kenyan Inter-Faith organizations, and another 30 will be leaders of Youth Groups. 10 of the volunteers will be nominated to represent Kenya’s minority ethnic groups, most of whom are pastoralists and hunter gatherers from Kenya’s Northern, Western, Nyanza, Coast and Eastern Provinces. The 100 volunteers have been identified through the ongoing awareness creation by Peacebuilding Institute of Africa – International Development and Peace Organization that promotes Conflict Transformation and trauma healing skills, knowledge, attitudes and commitment. The volunteers have identified a need to acquire professional level skills and knowledge that will ensure sustainability of justice and peace structures at their respective communities. Hence, this project will offer Diploma level experiential training to the participants. Upon launching of the training component, each of the 100 volunteers will establish 3 Peacebuilding Committees situated in the heart of 300 Kenyan villages that are hitherto leading epicenters of violent conflicts. 15 people in each village will constitute a Peacebuilding Committee. Thus, the project will work directly with 4,500 leaders of Peacebuilding Committees. After 6 months of intensive training (Peace & Conflict Studies), each of the 100 volunteers will convene 1 re-echo training workshop targeting 45 people (3 Peacebuilding committees for each volunteer). By the end of year one (June 30th 2010), the project will have trained a total of 4, 500 people through re-echo forums. During the 2nd year of the project, each of the 100 volunteers will support 45 members of the peace committees to each convene 2 Peacebuilding symposiums of 30 leaders of Community Based Organizations. Through the 9,000 symposiums, the project will directly reach another 270, 000 leaders of Community Based Organizations. By publishing and distributing 4,050,000 copies of “Compassion for Justice, Conflict Transformation and Peace” Newsletter, the project will directly reach a record of 4,320,000 people. Assuming that each of the indirect beneficiaries will reach at least 3 members of their immediate families, or their friends/neighbors, then the project will indirectly reach 12, 973, 800 people spread in 300 Kenyan villages that have been identified as hitherto epicenters of violent conflicts. The 300 villages (epicenters of conflict) are located in close proximity to the following centers that Peacebuilding Institute is using as mobile Peace and Conflict study sites, namely Nairobi, Mombasa, Meru South, Tharaka, Mpeketoni, Garsen, Malindi, Kilifi, Mtwapa, Nakuru, Kericho, Kitale, Kapenguria, Mumias, Bungoma, Nambale, Busia, Siaya, Homa Bay, Kisii, Meru, Maua, Isiolo and Nanyuki. For security and human life protection considerations, Peacebuilding Institute has omitted Eldoret despite the town and its satellite villages being the leading epicenter of violent conflicts in Kenya. For this project, Eldoret will be served by Kitale. Another major component of this project will be the designing, launching and the operation of a network on Conflict Early Warning & Early Response that will utilize the Mobile Phone Technology of “Short Text Message” offered by the leading Mobile Phone Service Provider, namely Safaricom. In June 2009, the management of Peacebuilding Institute of Africa will enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Mobile Phone Service Provider with a view to jointly launch this Community Based “Conflict Early Warning & Early Response” system.
Thematic Areas
for Training of the 100 Compassionate Volunteers for
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