PFIM Training
GIZ PEACECORE
Decentralized Community Dialogue Platforms
Community Peace Architecture Forum (C-PAF) in Riyom
GIZ PEACECORE
Security Personnel Addressing Community Peace Architecture Forum (CPAF)
GIZ PEACECORE
The project has brought conflicting parties using platforms such as the Community Peace Architecture Forum CPAF and the People First Impact Method P-FIM. This approach has succeeded in bringing people at the community level together to discuss and resolve their issues at the local level using community driven solutions. Communities have been able to resolve disputes arising through mediation of the CPAF and articulate their needs, and goals through P-FIM. All of which have helped the project to design and deliver on its objectives with the buy in of local communities.
1. Involvement of local actors, stakeholders and capacities for peacebuilding.
2. Creating a safe space for dialogue and discussions.
3. Strengthening the capacities of local civil society organizations familiar with the communities and trusted by them to better implement.
4. Decentralised strategy.
5. Empowering structures to mediate directly in conflict, with links to relevant authorities.
1. Mediation is easier at local levels where the conflicts occur, than through centralized strctures which might be more cumbersome and present generalized solutions which might not be adequate to local challenges.
2. Communities have capacities for resolving conflicts and addressing their developmental issues by themselves. These should be identified and supported over external solutions as they are often more sustainable.
3. Bottom to top approaches are more effective than top to bottom approaches.
4. Decentraization of dialogue structures at community level, reduces the logistics of conducting such dialogues and encourages their continuation after projects exit.