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Capacity Building and Networking for
Peacebuilding
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 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. |
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