3-Day Dialogue Conference For Peace Underway In Wau The South Sudan Council of Churches is holding a 3-day peace dialogue conference that begun today Monday in Wau with an aim to restore peace and unity among the people of Wau State. 12 December 2016
By James Deng Dimo WAU, 12 December 2016 [Gurtong] – The conference will focus on finding ground solutions to achieving peace and reconciliation among the communities of Wau State. Traditional chiefs from the three ethnic groups in the State, the Dinka, Fertits and Luo including members from the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, youth, women, the Islamic council as well as representatives from the office of South Sudan’s ruling party SPLM are participating in the conference. Speaking during the opening of the conference, the Interchurches Chairperson for Greater Bahr el Ghazal region, Bishop Taban Pabiano from the Pentecostal church said the participants are expected to convince their communities to bring peace among their people. “The reason why we are using these groups is because we know that chiefs are the leaders in their communities and also politicians are the leaders in their communities, youth are those who are currently holding guns and they can be the active people who can at the same time easily move to pass the peace messages to the communities and we involved women because women have learned a lot from this conflict, they lost their husbands and their children,” said the Bishop. “We have brought them such that we can dialogue between each other so that we can reach a peaceful reconciliation process because we found that each of these groups is accusing one another and may be each of these groups have a problem with another group, so it is important to bring them together so that we tell them that we want to remove all the source of differences, hatred and how to advise them to have a space of peace and dialogue among themselves,” he said. Bishop Taban is optimistic that after the conference a solution to achieve lasting peace in the State will be reached at. The three days conference is being supported by the Norwegian Church Aid. In August, Wau State Governor, Andrea Mayar Acho announced a peace deal plan that his government was willing to initiate with armed dissidents in the region. The Council of churches said the dialogue would be their first step towards the peace process in the State. Posted in: Home - See more at: http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ID/20116/Default.aspx#sthash.LECTuOdj.dpuf -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14opEPyW3WWPTNoSDJMJmMiqSxD1maZpTZj5T033GB21YSg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
