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Titus Oyeyemi
- President/CEO, Peaceworker
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Power to Peace and Collaborative Development Network
Started Oct. 26, 2009
Research Designs, Methodologies, and Survey Instruments
Started Sep. 25, 2009
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On Wednesday, February 10, 2010, African Foundation for Peace and Love Initiatives (AFPLI) launched SAMS (Students Acquiring Media Skills) in Lagos State. The inaugural session was held at the Lagos State Council of Arts and Culture at Agidingbi are…
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- What motivated you (or your organization) to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?
- Founded in 1996, APPLI is a nonpolitical, nonprofit 501(c)3 organization with international headquarters in the United States—and Nigeria as the continental lead country. Pilot projects are growing by “leaps and bounds” and increasingly are taking root all over Nigeria. Exploratory discussions are taking place throughout Africa, and affiliates have been established in other parts of the world, including London, England. The organization’s mission is to use proactive grassroots peacebuilding initiatives to foster peace, love, justice, and ethnoreligious harmony in Africa. To achieve this mission, the implementation approach adopts Structured Education for Peace (SEP), Socio-cultural Adjustment Programs (SAP), and indigenous peacebuilding capacities.
Starting with Nigeria as the model field of operations, the SEP programs labeled Youth Peace and Nation Building (YPNB) and Community Peace and Nation Building (CPNB) educate to instill peace measures as alternatives to war—and love as opposed to hatred in an ongoing effort to generate and maintain peace and love among Africans through renewed knowledge. The YPNB program—through the grassroots peace and love clubs in schools and higher institutions—targets youths from kindergarten through college to their one-year National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), a government-imposed, mandatory paramilitary program to serve the nation after college graduation, with the intent to unite ethnically diverse Nigerians.
The YPNB clubs are:
• African Children of Peace Clubs (ACPC) serving kindergarten, nursery, and primary schools for nine (9) years
• Youth Peace Alliance Clubs (Y-PAC) serving junior and senior secondary schools for six (6) years
• KAIROS Peace and Love Clubs (KAIROS) serving institutions of higher learning for four (4) years
• New Peace Legacy Clubs (NPLC) serving NYSC participants for one (1) year.
The overall goal of this proactive grassroots peacebuilding approach is to be sustainable by steadily bringing a changed mind-set to average Nigerian youths in their 20-year educational careers. Peace curricula are developed by APPLI and taught weekly to club members by government- and school-assigned teachers who are peace-certified, having gone through APPLI’s Peace Training Institute.
The CPNB program, on the other hand, uses KAYERO (Yoruba for “Let peace prevail on earth”) Peace and Love Clubs, the City Peace Clubs, and the Mayoral Institutes to target politicians, government personnel, traditional rulers, religious leaders, community leaders, and business people. Through the creation of these peace education centers, APPLI aims to instill conflict resolution, conflict management, and conflict transformation in Africa. The program also cultivates indigenous peacebuilding capacities.
Apart from the educational aspect of peacebuilding, SAP efforts provide hands-on tools to minimize violence through entrepreneurship and job creation. This approach ameliorates idleness and anger caused by joblessness and poverty. For more information please feel free to visit our website at http://www.africanprojectsforpeace.org
- Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself or the work of your organization (no more than 3 paragraphs)
- I am Christian Clergy, a Peaceworker and an Administrator. My academic qualifications include MDIV, MAPS. I am a doctoral student in Organizational Leadership. I am 54 years old.
I am the Founding President and CEO of African Projects for Peace and Love Initiatives (APPLI) incorporated as a nonprofit NGO in the United States of America. While APPLI is our international network headquarters, African Foundation for Peace and Love Initiatives (AFPLI) incorporated in Nigeria is our continental headquarters in Africa.
- Please list the countries and/or regions in which you (or your organization) have direct and significant expertise
- Nigeria, Countries in Africa, United States and United Kingdom
- What is your current country of residence (or location of your organization)?
- United States and Nigeria
- What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?
- President/CEO, Peaceworker
- What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)
- http://www.africanprojectsforpeace.org
- Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise (or the primary sectoral areas of your organization) ?
- Alternative Dispute Resolution, Peacebuilding, Conflict Resolution, Conflict Mainstreaming, Development, Youth, Education, Organizational Development, Environment
- Which are your primary skills areas(or the primary skill areas of your organization)?
- Training, Program Design, Program Administration, Advocacy, Intervention
- What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?
- Equipping the New African Peacebuilder
Growing with Peace
Youth Peace and Nation Building
Community Peace and Nation Building
Inclusion of Peacebuilding as Co-curricular activity in secondary schools
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STUDENTS ACQUIRING MEDIA SKILLS (SAMS) HELD INAUGURAL SESSION IN LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA
On Wednesday, February 10, 2010, African Foundation for Peace and Love Initiatives (AFPLI) launched SAMS (Students Acquiring Media Skills) in Lagos State. The inaugural session was held at the Lagos State Council of Arts and Culture at Agidingbi area of Ikeja, near the Lagos State Secretariat. SAMS, a bi-annual program, is targeted at students of… Continue
Posted on February 13, 2010 at 12:54pm —
The Youths are the Heartbeats of the New Nigerian Nation
http://maponderaciyda.blogspot.com/2009/08/importance-of-building-foundations-for.html 2009IYDAFPLIREPORT.pdf… Continue
Posted on October 31, 2009 at 6:53am —
STUDENTS ACQUIRING MEDIA SKILLS FOR YOUTH PEACE AND NATION BUILDING (SAMS) 2010, 1ST EDITION
letter102609SAMS01-2010REGFRM-2.pdfIn pursuance of the Memorandum of Understanding between African Projects/Foundation for Peace and Love Initiatives, (APPLI/AFPLI) and the Lagos State Government Ministry of Education, the first edition of the seminar/workshop aimed at equipping secondary school students with media skills for y… Continue
Posted on October 31, 2009 at 5:15am —
Rescuing Nigerian Education Systems When Statistics are Pathetic
Posted on October 20, 2009 at 9:53am —
KAIROS PEACE AND LOVE CLUB LAUNCHED AT YABA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
Posted on October 19, 2009 at 7:00pm —
Comment Wall (5 comments)
- At 9:30am on February 17, 2009,
Craig Zelizer said… - Great. Make sure also to look up the University of Peace's Africa program and there are also many other great institutions based in Africa working on conflict, peace and development.
- At 9:42am on February 22, 2008,
Victor Gotebve said… - Thank you for writing. I work full time with Vanguard Media Limited (www.vanguardngr.com) and coordinate a network of young Nigerian Professionals (NiPRO). You can read about us at www.niproevents.com or www.niproinc.com. I also serve as project manager of Youth Bank (www.youth-bank.org).
My email is victor@unesco.co.uk and me@victorgotevbe.com
- At 10:41am on February 21, 2008,
Dan Shenk said… - Not sure what this is all about, but I'm willing to give it a shot. Thanks for inviting me.
- At 2:20am on September 24, 2007,
Eyal Raviv said…
- Hi Titus,
I like your profile! I'd like you to join me on mepeace.org,
a platform for peacemakers advancing Middle East peace.
Eyal :-)
- At 10:41am on August 1, 2007,
Gary A Blythe said…
- Dear Titus,
It as an honor and blessing to be in communication with you. Your work is remarkable, fresh and inspiring and I think that many peace builders could learn from your idea of long range peace building. Truly innovative and provoking which will do more as you say to chip away at structural violence. Often it is the habits of our thinking that take the longest to remove. Even the word habit is difficult to lose. First we lose the H and we still have abit. Then we lose the A and we still have "bit." Then we lose the b and we still have "It", then we lose the I and we are left with T and too much tea is also a bad habit. More people need to know about your work. Please also join www.peaceportal.ning.com and join me at www.thoughtnetwork.ning.com. Also any articles and data you can share about your work, publications, obstacles from your perspective will be very helpful in building my work as I wish to incorporate a global perspective.
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Events
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UPEACE Extended Deadline Application
February 17, 2010 at 6pm to March 15, 2010 at 12pm – UPEACE Campus, Costa Rica
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trainingcourse Peacebuilding and Local Governance
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Nonviolence In The Context Of War Or Armed Conflict
June 18, 2010 at 6pm to July 5, 2010 at 7pm – Kurve Wustrow
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Bologna, Italy Symposium on Conflict Prevention, Resolution, and Reconciliation
June 19, 2010 to July 17, 2010 – Johns Hopkins SAIS Bologna Center
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trainingcourse Peacebuilding and Local Governance at The Hague
May 31, 2010 to June 11, 2010
The Hague Academy for Local Governance, together with the Barcelona International Peace Centre, is organising this 2-week training course to enhance understanding of the challenges that are faced by local governments in fragile situations.
Speakers…
Call for Applications The Gebran G. Tueni
Human Rights Fellowship
2010-2011
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/cchrp/opportunities/fellowsprogram/fellowsprogram.php
Opportunities Available: 2
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Status: stipend available
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