From 15-17 September 2008 the African Peacebuilding Coordination Programme at ACCORD hosted a workshop in Durban, South Africa, aimed at reviewing the work of the Programme since June 2007 and commencing with the revision of training material which the Programme will use in its future training activities.
The workshop brought together 19 representatives of the United Nations, the African Union, non-governmental organisations and civil society working in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Liberia and Sudan; the four countries in which the Peacebuilding Programme at ACCORD works. The workshop served to review the work of the African Peacebuilding Coordination Programme to date and its planned work in the future, and to assess the design and nature of the training curriculum for use in its future trainings. The trainings are designed to strengthen and further develop peacebuilding capacity in Africa.
Over the course of the three days participants provided input into the work of the Programme, reviewed the content of the proposed training material, and reviewed progress made in the peacebuilding processes in Burundi, the DRC, Liberia and Sudan. Participants also shared some of the latest thinking on peacebuilding in Africa, and on the peacebuilding strategies being used in the four countries.
For more information on the work of the African Peacebuilding Coordination Programme at ACCORD, please contact Walter Lotze at walter@accord.org.za.
