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Africa Peace and Conflict Journal (APCJ)
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Ndumba J. Kamwanyah Sep. 11, 2009.
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- What motivated you (or your organization) to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?
- My passion for a better and equitable world is my major motivation for becoming involved in the field of conflict resolution
- Please list the countries and/or regions in which you (or your organization) have direct and significant expertise
- Africa - East, Central (Great Lakes), Southern and Western Africa.
- What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)
- http://UPEACE, ACT, CARITAS, INTERNATIONAL ALERT, ICG
- Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise (or the primary sectoral areas of your organization) ?
- Conflict Resolution, Democratization, Development, Humanitarian Relief, Gender, Education, Civil Society, Oragnizational Development
- Which are your primary skills areas(or the primary skill areas of your organization)?
- Training, Program Design, Program Administration
- What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?
- Peacebuilding and Peace Education in Africa. Gender Mainstreaming in Educational Institutions
Comment Wall (41 comments)
- At 3:59am on March 12, 2010,
Peter MARUGA said… - Hallo Tony! Long time no see. When will you be in Nairobi? Pass my regards to all that matter. Wish you all the best. Still stuck at NPI-Africa! Any opportunity let me know.
- At 4:56pm on December 16, 2009,
Sanki Faustin Ngoy said… - Hey sir, it is good to see you in PCDN. My name is Sanki Ngoy M one of your students in IPLG at Africa University. I am from Congo ( DRC). Just wanted to check on you and say thank you for your good class management and good leadership skills...I loved your lectures on conflict resolution, negotiation, conflict sensitive etc... Hope you are fine...
Best wishes,
Sanki
- At 1:46am on November 20, 2009,
Judith S. Koffler said… - I wonder if you might have some suggestions for our upcoming conference on Indigenous Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution, sponsored by the University of Botswana's Centre for Culture and Peace Studies, to be held April 22-23, 2010.
If you or your colleagues would like to submit proposals, kindly send to the Chair of the Centre, Prof. Bertha Osei-Hwedie, by email attachment, no later than Dec. 31, 2009: OSEI-HWE@mopipi.ub.bw or to Judith.Koffler@mopipi.ub.bw
- At 10:43pm on September 10, 2009,
Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso said…
- Hi Dr Tony, how is life? Saw your post o nthe APCJ and wondering what's up with the upeace submissions.
Peace to you.
Ola.
- At 6:08am on August 22, 2009,
Samuel Kawilila said… - Whenever you are in Zambia. Give me a call.
Samuel.
- At 7:54am on June 18, 2009,
David said…
- hey.
how are you my name is david Takawira and am motivated with you work and study i would love to have some advice on how best to pursue a career in peace and reconciliation. studied at University of Zimbabwe obtaining a BA in War and strategic studies.
may you continue the good work
- At 1:58am on June 16, 2009,
Maxie J. Muwonge said… - Hullo the main man. My hope that you are alive in great spirit. Am fair in Karamoja
- At 9:13am on March 9, 2009,
Linos Mapfumo said…
- Hey Tony,
Its good to know that we are crossing paths in many good ways. Whats your e-mail address?
- At 1:14pm on January 7, 2009,
Tendaiwo Peter Maregere said… - Compliments of the new season. I am done with the Masters Degree programme and am looking for opportunities.
- At 3:33pm on October 14, 2008,
Rene Wadlow said… - 16 October — World Food Day — The Three Fs
Rene Wadlow
“determined to promote the common welfare by furthering separate and collective action for the purpose of raising levels of nutrition and standards of living”
Preamble of the FAO Constitution
The current financial crisis joins those of food and fuel to challenge the world economy. The three crises are inter-related and impact each other. Paying hundreds of billions of dollars to rescue the world’s financial industry looks likely to cut both humanitarian aid and development spending. The price of oil has dropped but is still high and is a drain on the funds of developing countries.
Foreign development issues may be the first victims of the financial crisis as government officials focus on domestic issues, especially if there is the predicted slowdown in the economy and a rise in unemployment in North America and Europe.
At a recent funding meeting in Geneva, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Antonio Guterres recognized that the financial crisis would raise challenges for those who have traditionally financed UNHCR programs. “At the same time, I must point out that the resources required to support the 31 million people we care for are very modest indeed when compared to the sums being spent to bring stability to the international financial system. It would be tragic if the funds available to the humanitarian community were to decline at the very time when demands upon us are increasingly so dramatically.”
Yet the decline in governmental aid to the developing world is probably inevitable. Thus an emphasis must be placed on creating a world food policy which draws upon improving local self-reliance while not creating nationalistic policies which harm neighbours. Food is a key aspect of deep structural issues in the world society and thus must be seen in a wholistic framework.
Jean Ping, the chairman of the African Union Commission noted recently that “The sharp increase in basic food prices has had a particularly negative effect on African countries. In the medium and long term, the Commission proposes measures to regulate speculation, the sharing of public cereal stocks, strengthening the financing of imports and reliable food aid, promoting investment in social protection and increased investment to boost agricultural production.” The African Union has 53 state-members with some 750 million people, over half of which are in what is now called “the bottom billion” — people living on $1.25 a day or less. While there is something artificial in poverty lines based on buying-power, such poverty statistics give an indication of the challenges faced.
While constant improvements in technology, mechanization, plant breeding and farm chemicals have steadily increased food production per acre in much of the world, African food production per acre has stagnated, and in some areas has gone down. Likewise, the portion of development assistance in Africa dedicated to agriculture has declined from 15 per cent in the 1980s to 4 per cent in 2006.
Thus the first need in Africa is to develop the local economies: Currently, poverty, lack of adapted technology, population pressure on ecologically fragile areas, a growth of urban slums due to rapid rural to urban migration is the lot of many Sub-Saharan African countries.
Increased action to improve rural life needs to be taken quickly. As the recent UN-sponsored Millennium Ecosystem Assessment notes “Human activity is putting such strain on the natural functions of Earth that the ability of the planet’s ecosystem to sustain future generations can no longer be taken for granted. It is becoming ever more apparent that human society has a rapidly shrinking window of opportunity to alter its path.”
World Food Day needs to be marked by a sharper analysis of the causes of rural stagnation and a renewed dedication to cooperative action.
Rene Wadlow, Representative to the UN, Geneva, Association of World Citizens
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Webinar, Nonviolent Strategy, Tactics, and Collective Identity, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict
March 25, 2010 from 12pm to 1pm – Online
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USAID, Global Pulse 2010 is a 3-day, online collaboration event, that will bring together individual socially-engaged participants and organizations from around the world
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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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3rd POST-YUGOSLAV PEACE ACADEMY
July 18, 2010 to July 27, 2010 – Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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