S. Sudan peace committee starts consultations in Warrap
Article
Comments (0)
email Email
print Print
pdfSave
separation
increase
decrease
separation
separation
facebook
myspace
twitter
buzzyahoo
July 1, 2015 (JUBA) - Officials from South Sudan’s peace committee
have started community consultations in Warrap state after weeks of
grassroots campaigns in Juba.
JPEG - 44.9 kb
Residents of South Sudan’s Jonglei state march through the streets in
Bor on 19 December 2014 calling for peace (ST)
In a statement issued Wednesday, the Committee for National
Reconciliation and Healing, said it conducted consultations in 39
payams of Warrap.
Peter Kuot, the committee’s communication manager, said the community
consultations were facilitated by the 55 peace mobilisers trained in
the state between April and May.
Six lead peace mobilisers, he said, oversaw the training of the 55
peace mobilisers reportedly grouped to 13 teams composing of four to
five peace mobilizers each team. Each team was given a task of
facilitating one payam consultation per week, resulting in the 13
teams covering 39 payams in just three weeks.
Warrap State, according to Kuot, comprised of 42 Payams which will all
be covered by the ongoing process. Kuacjok which is the State Head
Quarters has also been considered for consultations, making a total of
43 consultations. The remaining 4 consultations will be covered in a
week to conclude the process of Payam consultations in Warrap State.
“During the consultations at Payam levels that were attended by women,
youth, chiefs, elders and religious leaders, communities were asked to
voice out their internal and external grievances that present their
community with obstacles to peace and harmony among themselves and
with others," said Kuot.
"The issues presented by the communities have been documented by the
peace mobilisers into reports that the Committee for National Healing
Peace and Reconciliation will use in developing a national agenda for
healing, peace and reconciliation”, he added.
He said the committee plans to hold county conferences after holding
consultation in all those counties and expected to be attended by
delegates nominated by their Payams during the consultations.
Representatives from different payams and communities will discuss
community issues raised at the payam consultations at the county
conferences.
A similar process will be conducted at county level and presented at
one big conference.
Similar consultation, he added, will be done in all the ten states and
Abyei Administrative Area throughout 2015 to 2016.
Warrap is the pilot state of the committee’s three-year vision of
collecting narratives from the people of South Sudan at the grassroots
to ensure that South Sudan’s reconciliation journey is driven and
shaped by its citizens’ rich experiences, knowledge, and needs.
(ST)
--
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
[email protected]
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob
View this message at
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"South Sudan Info - The Kob" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob.
To view this discussion on the web visit
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14opPW0HVZ2ruExXr%3DBQraEpActsM7yJ0xJuzJ%3DmFjd8GPg%40mail.gmail.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
