INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR COMMUNITY PEACE
International Center for Community Peace (ICCP) is a project piloted by Trios Human Development Foundation. The International Center for Community Peace is a non-governmental
organization and has secured 60 plots of land at Reke in Asa Local Government
Area, Kwara State as permanent site.
Our vision:
v
A world free of violence where
conflicts are transformed into opportunities for development.
Our mission:
To uplift
the dignity of all persons regardless of race, religion, gender or political
leaning especially as it affects most at risk populations.
v To
provide alternative window for conflict resolution and mediation by opening
Family and Community Peace Centres, building capacity of first contact
counsellors at grassroots level; advancement of peace through positive,
constructive, empathetic interpersonal relations and conflict sensitive
socialisation.
Long term commitment:
- Conduct research, mediation and
advocacy on issues to promote sustainable peace in communities,
- Providing capacity building for
community and youth leaders in peace building, conflict resolution, early
warning and early response strategies.
- Refocusing individuals, group
of individuals and communities for improved social functioning and capacity
building in line with state, national and global citizenship and development
perspectives.
- Advancing the frontier of
knowledge for our participants’ emotional adjustment, development and
management through training, retraining and skill-up activities in line with
self reliance and corporate societal functioning.
- Collaborating with national and
international development agencies for community profiling, analysis and
development for improved identification and participation in enabling community
life.
- Provide support for internally
displaced persons (IDPs) and rehabilitation therapy services.
Training/ Secretariat
The
Foundation has opened a Family and
Community Peace Center at Ita Alamu, Ilorin South Local Government Area for
carrying out training in sustainable peace, mediation and counselling. The
centre carries out training for Peace Ambassadors as first contact counsellors
in indigenous languages for artisans and ‘unschooled’ community leaders; pilot
training programmes has commenced at the centre in April 2014.
Governance
Board of Governors
Alhaji
Durosinloun Atiku, Balogun Fulani of Ilorin; Honourable Hameed Afolabi Giwa,
Member Kwara State House of Assembly; Chief H. O. Adedeji; Padson Industries
Limited; Dr. Sampson Ebimaro, National Planning Commission, Chief Samuel Eze,
Igbo Community Association; Lawyer (Mrs) O. O. Opoola, Nigeria Bar Association,
Ilorin; Dr (Mrs) Joyce Emuchey, College of Humanities, Kwara State University
Advisory Board
Prof. Kunle
Ajayi of Institute of Peace, Securiy and Governance, University of Ado-Ekiti,
Dr. J. O. Fayeye of Center for Peace and Strategic Studies, University of
Ilorin and Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR); we are expecting
response from National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO) and National
Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
President/ E.D
Ade Bodunde
Telephone Numbers
234 (0) 7064404909, 234 (0) 8052112429
Telephone Numbers
234 (0) 7064404909, 234 (0) 8052112429
Bankers: United Bank for Africa (UBA Plc), Account
name: International Center for Community Peace, Account number 1018313595
INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR
COMMUNITY PEACE (ICCP), an arm of TRIOS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, has its
permanent site at Reke in Asa Local Government Area of Kwara State, Nigeria.
BACKGROUND
In 2009,
Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution in the Presidency, funded by United
Nations Development Program (UNDP) invited several organizations and
stakeholders in peace building in various zones across Nigeria to deliberate on
sustaining peace and resolving conflicts in Nigeria, Trios was an active
participant at the various meetings and also participated in the numerous
training programs that were held afterwards. Some of the activities include
drafting of the National Peace Policy, Mainstreaming Gender in Peace Building
Processes among others.
Peace has to
be home grown and, like every development strategy, the bottom – up approach in
designing training strategies would be most appropriate to achieve sustainable
results. Most community leaders, heads of artisan and unskilled labour groups,
market women and youth leaders in semi urban and rural areas usually do not
have the basic educational qualification to understand the level of English
grammar that is used in most workshops or educational institutions where peace
studies are taught.
Trios Human
Development Foundation has trained 40 participants drawn from rural community
leaders who do not speak English, the language of communication at the training
programs are Yoruba, Nupe and we are also making training arrangements in Igbo,
Boko-Baru, Ebira and any other language from which we get up to 20
participants. Participants are excited that they have learned great new skills
being brought to their level.
As we
approach another round of national elections, we are mindful that Nigeria is no
doubt in a seemingly fragile State with increasing numbers of violent clashes
across the country. The populace is subjected to structural, socio-economic and
emotional violence, terrorism and anti-terrorism violence rage with the Biafra
and Niger Delta crisis re-emerging, there is the Boko Haram insurgency in the
North, cattle herdsmen versus indigenes in several states, ethno-religious
conflicts, spates of communal clashes, boundary disputes, indigene–settlers
violence, kidnapping is rife – even traditional rulers are kidnapped, rape,
unsolved murder cases, suicides, intra and inter political party conflicts have
all become rife and marginalised groups have become breeding grounds for
various types of militias.
The nation
swings between violent clashes, some level of war, instability and peace all of
which are having untold impact on sustaining meaningful development, social and
economic growth at Local, State and National level. Despite government efforts,
increasing level of poverty and youth unemployment juxtaposed with increasing
information sharing capacities all make it most important to draw attention and
build skills of all stakeholders: Community leaders, women, youths,
artisans especially at grass roots and lay people particularly the
‘illiterates’, to manage peace and handle conflicts constructively in order to
achieve desirable results sustainably.
Three hecters
of land has been made donated for use as the permanent site of the Centre, an
indigene of the host community who is a member of Kwara State House of Assembly
has pledged to donate a water bore hole and training has started at our Family
and Community Peace Centre at Ita Alamu, Ilorin in Kwara State.
We seek credible men, women and youths as
members and volunteers to join our management to raise funds and join in making
impact in peacebuilding.
Please reply to: Email:
triosfoundation@rocketmail.com or telephone Ade Bodunde on 07064404909 for
additional information.
International
Center For Community Peace
Principles
of Conflict Transformation
International Center for
Community Peace has
adopted the principles of conflict transformation in line with Transconflict,
an international network of Peace building organizations to which IICP is
subscribed. Transconflict has
developed the following set of principles which we hope will contribute to the
conceptual debate about conflict transformation, whilst also helping guide
individuals and organisation alike so that they too can make a positive
contribution to the field of conflict transformation.
Principles of Conflict
Transformation:
1. Conflict should not be regarded as an isolated
event that can be resolved or managed, but as an integral part of society’s
on-going evolution and development;
2. Conflict should not be understood solely as an
inherently negative and destructive occurrence, but rather as a potentially
positive and productive force for change harnessed constructively;
3. Conflict transformation goes beyond merely seeking
to contain and manage conflict, instead seeking to transform the root causes
themselves – or the perceptions of the root causes – of a particular conflict;
4. Conflict transformation is a long-term, gradual and
complex process, requiring sustained engagement and interaction;
5. Conflict transformation is not just an approach and
set of techniques, but a way of thinking about and understanding conflict
itself;
6. Conflict transformation is particularly suited for
intractable conflicts, where deep-rooted issues fuel protracted violence;
7. Conflict transformation adjusts to the ever
changing nature of a conflict, particularly during pre- and post-violence
phases and at any stages of the escalation cycle;
8. Conflict transformation is always a non-violent
process, which is fundamentally opposed to violent expression of conflict;
9. Conflict transformation addresses a range of
dimensions – the micro-, meso- and macro levels; local and global;
10. Conflict transformation is concerned with five
specific types of transformation, focusing upon the structural, behavioural and
attitudinal aspects of conflict;
a. Actors –
modifying actors’ goals and their approach to pursuing these goals including by
strengthening understanding as to the causes and consequences of their
respective actions;
b. Contexts
- challenging the meaning and perceptions of conflict itself, particularly the
respective attitudes and understanding of specific actors towards one another;
c. Issues –
redefining the issues that are central to the prevailing conflict, and
reformulating the position of key actors on those very issues;
d. Rules – changing
the norms and rules governing decision-making at all levels in order to ensure
that conflicts are dealt with constructively through institutional channels;
e. Structures
– adjusting the prevailing structure of relationship, power distribution and
socio-economic condition that are embedded in and inform the conflict, thereby
affecting the very fabric of interaction between previously incompatible
actors, issues and goals.
11. For conflict transformation to occur, tensions
between parties to the conflict must be overcome – first, by ensuring all
actors recognize that their respective interests are not served by resorting to
violence; and seeking consensus on what should be transformed and how;
12. Conflict transformation stresses the human
dimension by reminding parties of the compatible nature of their needs, instead
of emphasising their opposing interests, and by rejecting unilateral decisions
and action, particularly those representing a victory for one of the parties to
the conflict;
13. Conflict transformation does not resort to a
predetermined set of approaches and actions, but respects and adapts to the
particularities of a given setting.
14. Conflict transformation looks beyond visible
issues and is characterized by creative problem solving, incorporating the
perspectives a broad array of actors, including those typically marginalized
from such considerations;
15. Conflict transformation invariably involves a
third, impartial party, in order to help actors alter their cognitive and
emotional views on the ‘other’, thereby helping to break down divisions between
‘Us’ and ‘Them’;
16. Conflict transformation represents an ambitious
and demanding task, which is better equipped to contend with the asymmetric,
complex and protracted nature of contemporary conflicts than prevailing
techniques and approaches.
