WEST AFRICA PEACEBUILDING INSTITUTE (WAPI)

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• WEST AFRICA PEACEBUILDING INSTITUTE (WAPI)
• Enabling Peacebuilding Practice

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BACKGROUND

• The incessant outbreak and reoccurrence of
  violent conflicts in West Africa proved the
  inadequacy of effective peacebuilding capacity in
  the region. Hence, it became imperative to
  formulate long term sustainable approaches to
  changing relationships and structures underlying
  conflicts, and changing the attitudes at the core
  of the culture of violence.
• To address this gap, a peacebuilding institute in
  the region to provide the space and platform
  required for Africans to develop and actualize
  their own home-grown initiatives became essential.

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INTRODUCTION

• WAPI was therefore institutionalized in 2002 by
  the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP)
  to provide specialized, intensive, and cultural
  sensitivity training in conflict transformation
  and peacebuilding to individuals, CSOs, business
  community, policy makers and other relevant
  actors in West Africa
• WANEP is one of the leading peacebuilding
  organisations in Africa with a mandate to build
  the capacity of peacebuilding, development and
  human rights practitioners in Africa and
  worldwide on peace and security issues to promote
  and protect human security through context
  specific tools and indigenous techniques.

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INTRODUCTION Contd.

• In 2010, WANEP entered into an MOU with the Kofi
  Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre
  (KAIPTC) to jointly organise WAPI and engage in
  research, training mentoring and strategic
  interventions
• Since 2002, WAPI has trained over 450 experts in
  peace, dialogue mediation, early warning, and
  human security, etc.
• Its visibility and sustainability is evident in
  the increasing number of participants across the
  globe including ECOWAS, AU, UN Staff, Government
  agencies corporate institutions

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Graphical presentation of the concept of
WAPIStrengthening capacity of African CSOs as
well as the intergovernmental bodies especially
AU and ECOWAS
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AIM OBJECTIVE

• The aim of WAPI is to provide knowledge and
  expertise on peacebuilding and conflict
  prevention to reduce and eliminate the frequency
  and severity of violent conflict
• Specific objectives among others include
• Develop action oriented capacity for conflict
  transformation and peacebuilding
• Increase number of competent, informed and active
  peacebuilding practitioners
• Provide quality training in peacebuilding
• Develop context specific and indigenous models of
  conflict transformation and peacebuilding that
  can be integrated with existing models
• Provide skills to respond to workplace disputes

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METHODOLOGY

• Courses at WAPI blend theory and practice
• Teaching method is highly participatory and
  interactive, enabling space for extensive
  contribution by participants
• Participants are frequently grouped to share
  experiences

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Faculty/Participants

• Faculty Members at WAPI are drawn from highly
  qualified and experienced peacebuilding scholars,
  practitioners and educationists. 3 lecturers of
  the Peace and Conflict Programme of the Institute
  of African Studies are members of the WAPI
  Faculty
• Participants are drawn from intergovernmental
  organisations including UN, AU, ECOWAS, CSOs,
  National Peace Architectures, security agencies,
  business community, universities etc. At least 5
  students from MA-PCS and 2 of CEPACS have
  participated in WAPI

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• OVERVIEW OF COURSES
• Peacebuilding Paradigms Concepts and Praxis
• Peacebuilding Program design, Implementation and
  Evaluation
• Dialogue and Mediation Design and Processes
• Natural Resource Governance Conflict Management
• Peace Education
• Human Security Development
• Early Warning Early Response Building Capacity
  for Preventive peacebuilding
• Gender and Peacebuilding

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PEACEBUILDING PARADIGMS CONCEPTS AND PRAXIS

• This course equips participants with knowledge of
  peacebuilding field and improves their
  understanding of concepts, theories and praxis of
  peace and security. It builds on the
  understandings of conflicts and the theoretical
  foundations of peace and peacebuilding practice.
  The outline follows the sequence from
  understanding of conflicts to the analysis of
  conflicts and provides conceptual clarifications
  on the various elements of peacebuilding and
  human security.
• Major elements in the course
• Understanding conflicts
• Theoretical foundations including conflict
  theories
• Conflict Mapping and Analysis
• Conflict Sensitive Approach to Peacebuilding Work
• Managing pressure and External Influence in
  peacebuilding and Conflict transformation
• Peacebuilding Practice Operating principles and
  Frameworks Roles of Actors and Peacebuilding
  foci etc.

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PEACEBUILDING PROGRAM DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND
EVALUATION

• The course equips agencies, organizations and
  practitioners working in conflict, crisis and
  post-war stabilization and recovery with skills
  and knowledge to improve the quality,
  effectiveness and sustainable impact of their
  programs. Most importantly, its an operational
  program. Participants bring actual projects they
  are working in their institutions and are
  supported to learn and apply effective skills for
  designing peacebuilding program for sustainable
  impact.
• Major elements of the course include
• Overview of Aid and Development
• Operational Framework for Effective peacebuilding
  program design (conflict-sensitive programming)
• Needs and Capacity Assessment, stakeholders
  analysis and Risk Analysis/Mitigation
• Peacebuilding Monitoring and Evaluation Logical
  Framework and Result Based Program Management
• Project Management Cycle
• Procurement Processes and Financial Management

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DIALOGUE MEDIATION DESIGN ANDPROCESSES

• While dialogue and mediation has been identified
  and utilized as a critical tool for addressing
  conflicts and ensuring peaceful coexistence, the
  skills and knowledge required to facilitate the
  process remains low. This course builds capacity
  of participants in the design and processes for
  effective dialogue and mediation. The course
  adopts a hands-on approach, allowing participants
  to develop and work on a case study in order to
  appreciate the nitty-gritty of dialogue and
  mediation
• Major elements of the course include
• Introduction and conceptual frameworks
• The nexus between theory and practice of dialogue
  and mediation
• Mediation Tracks Overview of CSOs, ECOWAS
  African Union and UN Mediation efforts
• Communication and Facilitation skills
• Conflict Analysis
• Getting to the Table At the Table Dialogue and
  Mediation Skills Getting to and Reviewing
  Agreements
• Follow-up and monitoring of outcomes (Sustaining
  outcomes)

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HUMAN SECURITY DEVELOPMENT

• The course examines the nexus of human security,
  peacebuilding and development. It particularly
  builds the capacity of course participants in
  using preventive peacebuilding strategies to
  anticipate and manage issues relating to human
  security in Africa. It further provides
  participants with the capacity to analyze human
  security issues as they relate to daily life
  experiences of families, groups and communities
  in the continent.
• Major Elements of the course include
• Human Security Overview, Evolution, Conceptual
  clarifications
• Democracy, Human rights and inclusive governance
• Gender and Human Security
• Poverty, unemployment and Underdevelopment
• Identity and violent extremism
• Trans-national organised crimes
• Environmental security
• Migration flows

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PEACE EDUCATION

• This course facilitates the understanding and the
  use of Peace Education as a long term preventive
  mechanism against violence. It explores Peace
  Education as response mechanism to balance power,
  create and sustain awareness towards the
  transformation of conflicts and unjust
  situations. The issues are examined within the
  context of the West African region, but also draw
  on experiences and models from other parts of
  Africa and the world at large.
• Major Elements of the course include
• The Context of Peace Education (Legal framework
  and guiding principles)
• Peace Education Theory and Pedagogy
• Formal and informal peace education programs
• The Practice of Peace Education design and
  implementation
• Peer Mediation
• Monitoring and Evaluating Peace Education
• Policy Options for Peace Education in West Africa

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EARLY WARNING EARLY RESPONSE BUILDING CAPACITY
FOR PREVENTIVE PEACEBUILDING

• Early warning is about assessing the likelihood
  of violent conflicts, the possibility of a
  resurgence or escalation of violence and
  identifying the windows of opportunities for
  peace and stability. This course provides
  analytical frameworks for understanding the
  nature, causes, dynamics and actors of conflict
  developing skills for developing indicators,
  monitoring, analyzing, and reporting conflict and
  human security. Particular focus is placed on how
  to conduct and write risk assessment reports,
  policy briefs monitor and report qualitative and
  quantitative early warning indicators, and
  mobilize strategic, integrated responses to
  prevent conflicts or relapse to violence.
• Major Elements of the course include
• Introduction to EW Concepts
• Continental, Regional and National and Community
  EW Systems
• Developing Indicators and Conflict Monitoring
  processes
• Engendering Early Warning
• Analysis and Scenario Building
• Early Warning outputs and Audience
• Response Planning Mobilization

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GENDER PEACEBUILDING

• Gender roles have contributed to discrimination
  and oppression across the region and globally.
  This course recognises that conflicts affect men
  and women differently. In this regard, the
  effective participation of both in peace
  processes is crucial to sustainable peace. In
  order to address these inequities, the course
  also seeks to provide gender perspectives in
  peacebuilding and equip participants with the
  skills for gender analysis. This course is
  structured to challenge thinking so as to enable
  understanding of the significant role of both men
  and women in conflict and peace processes.
• Major Elements of the course include
• The concept of Gender
• Gender issues in conflict and peacebuilding
  (Perspectives on the Impact of Conflict
  Violence)
• Gender and Violent Extremism
• Inclusivity in Peacebuilding and Decision
  Making
• National, Regional, Continental and International
  instruments for Gender Mainstreaming Into
  Peacebuilding
• Gender, Peace Support Operations and post
  conflict reconstruction

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NATURAL RESOURCE GOVERNANCE AND CONFLICT
MANAGEMENT

• Intrastate conflicts in West Africa and indeed
  most countries in Africa since the 1990s have
  been associated with the management and
  exploitation of natural resources. As West
  African population continues to upsurge, and the
  demand for resources endures, there is potential
  for conflicts over natural resources to deepen
  and escalate in the coming years. The course
  equips participants with the skills for
  understanding, analyzing and managing natural
  resource conflicts while ensuring that natural
  resource management for sustainable development
  forms part and parcel of governance,
  institutional policies and decision-making.
• Major Elements of the Course include
• Overview and classification of Natural Resources
  in West Africa
• Frameworks for natural resource conflict
  management (National and International)
• Natural Resource Governance and Development
• Gender perspective to Natural Resource Governance
  and Conflict
• Managing Relationship between Government, Host
  Communities and Multinational Corporations
• Corporate Social responsibility and
  peacebuilding
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SCHEDULE OF WAPI 2014
WEEK ONE (Sept. 1- 5) Peacebuilding Paradigms Concepts and Praxis Peacebuilding Paradigms Concepts and Praxis
WEEK ONE (Sept. 1- 5) Peacebuilding Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring Evaluation Peacebuilding Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring Evaluation

WEEK TWO (Sept. 8 -12) Peace Education Peace Education
WEEK TWO (Sept. 8 -12) Human Security Development Human Security Development
WEEK TWO (Sept. 8 -12)
WEEK THREE (Sept. 15 19) Natural Resource Governance Conflict Management Natural Resource Governance Conflict Management
WEEK THREE (Sept. 15 19) Gender and Peacebuilding Gender and Peacebuilding
WEEK THREE (Sept. 15 19)
WEEK FOUR (Sept. 22 26) Dialogue Mediation Design Processes Dialogue Mediation Design Processes
WEEK FOUR (Sept. 22 26) Early Warning Response Building Capacity for Preventive Peacebuilding Early Warning Response Building Capacity for Preventive Peacebuilding
WEEK FOUR (Sept. 22 26)
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BENEFITS OF WAPI

• Enhanced knowledge and expertise in peacebuilding
• Practice-oriented that equips participants with
  practical skills in managing peace security
  challenges confronting the region
• Enhanced platform for networking among
  participants during and after WAPI via WAPI
  Alumni forum, which is linked to the ECOWAS Early
  Warning mechanism Peace Exchange Forum
• Participants are regularly updated on employment
  platforms, academic professional resources,
  other career opportunities via WAPI forum
• A Musician from Kenya- Beatrice Achieng Odhiambo
  had this to say after WAPI 2013 This is a
  training that all people across Africa need. Why
  dont we make the training Africa Peacebuilding
  Institute (API) and take it to a place that all
  across Africa can participate in? This training
  understands the context of Africa and practically
  builds on current African conflicts

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WAPI Participants Dignitaries during the
Opening Ceremony of WAPI 2013
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• for application form and related updates
• SEE YOU AT WAPI 2014!
• THANK YOU