By Lois Otse Adams
The West African Network for Peace Building (WANEP) Nigeria in partnership with the Global Network of Women Peace-builders (GNWP) organizes a 2- Day Training Workshop on the Woman, Peace and Security Resolutions for Media Practitioners.
The ongoing workshop in Abuja is to amplify women’s voice, strengthen Local and National Partnerships for the localization of the women, peace and security resolution in Nigeria.
Female media practitioners from media houses residing in the Nation’s capital were responsive to the aims of the workshop, while ideas were discussed, issues surrounding the media were analysed, to encourage a lot of women to speak out to correct societal ills facing the profession.
West Africa Network for Peace building facilitates the development of a legal framework for cooperation among civil society based peace- building practitioners and organizations in Nigeria by providing cooperative responses to violate conflicts; providing structure through which these practitioners and institutions can regularly share experiences and information on Peacebuilding, conflict transformation, social, ethno-religious and political reconciliation and tolerance; while promoting cultural values as resources for peace-building.
Peacebuilding is the development of constructive personal, group, and political relationships across ethnic, religious, class, national, and racial boundaries. It aims to resolve injustice in nonviolent ways and to transform the structural conditions that generate deadly conflict.
To this end, there is absolutely no gainsaying the fact that the increasing importance of peace-building cannot be overemphasized.
