Developing a Network of Conflict Resolution
Mediators
SPADO is currently
managing a network of civil society activists comprising
representatives of NGOs, religious scholars, political activists,
academia and media representatives. The capacity building of the
network comprising forty members was undertaken on lines of conflict
analysis, mediation, dialogues, negotiation and communication and
problem solving skills with the technical expertise of United States
Institute of Peace (USIP) in 2009 for representatives of
aforementioned segments from Khyber Pakhutnkhwa and FATA. In the
second phase starting the network was extended to Karachi and other
parts of Sindh province, training another batch of forty-five civil
society activists.
The network members have ever since resolved some very potentially
violent conflicts within their communities and undertaken trainings
within their organizations and the communities in their respective
areas. SPADO maintains an active follow-up on the activities of the
group and reflects these in a quarterly newsletter. These conflict
mediation facilitators trained in dialogue mediation valuably
contributed to SPADO’s another peacebuilding intervention at the
regional level level called Pakistan-Afghanistan Dialogue initiative
2010-2011 in which they engaged border communities representatives
from cross sectors in identifying barriers and opportunities to
peacebuilding in border sharing Pakhtun populated regions of
Pakistan and Afghanistan and developing community action plans and
policy recommendations to local and national governments and the
international community for building peace in the region. SPADO has
achieved remarkable results of this activity in terms of the
effectiveness for example:
• Two land conflicts were peacefully resolved and one land conflict
is being managed nonviolently.
• One ethnic conflict was resolved peacefully.
• One conflict regarding humanitarian assistance to flood victims
was resolved peacefully.
• One conflict regarding two journalist unions was resolved
peacefully.
• One Karo-kari case was resolved peacefully.
• One community conflicto over mosque during the recent Ramadhan was
resolved Peacefully.
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