Coalition for Peace in Africa: Promoting a Culture of Peace in Africa


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[mission statement]
COPA is an African network of peace builders whose purpose is to promote peace, justice, human rights and development through capacity building, advocacy, research and documentation.

[vision]
A continent anchored on a culture of peace, justice and equality.

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  Trainings, activities & events
Turkana girl, one of the pastoralist communities in the Karamoja cluster

Creating and sustaining positive change in the Karamoja cluster
A tailor-made training for Practical Action and Oxfam UK, 11-18 May 2009.

   
ACT participants October 2008 Advanced Conflict Transformation (ACT)
Current training: 4-29 May 2009. Now organized in four one-week modules.
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Rotary World Peace Fellowships

Educational opportunity: Rotary World Peace Fellowships - deadline 1 July 2009

 
Dialogue session for local community (Northern Uganda)
COPA introduces new membership fees
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Women peacebuilders during the World Social Forum 2007 in Nairobi
Call for applications: 2009 Women Peacemakers Program - deadline 1st June 2009
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The Conflict Transformation Collaborative on a field visit in Kibera, Nairobi
"Kenya in focus" - COPA contributes to the learning journey of the Conflict Transformation Collaborative
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Conflict & Health workshop at Trinity College, Ireland

COPA delivers workshops on Conflict & Health in Ireland

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  Regions
Peacebuilding training for the Zimbabwe Election Support Network
Partnering for peace: COPA conducts peacebuilding training for the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Harare, Zimbabwe)
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Sharing symbols of trauma to increase awareness
Community caregivers trained in trauma awareness (Eldoret, Kenya)
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Conflict transformation training with focus on Somali situation
Intensive conflict transformation training in Hargeisa, Somaliland
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[a different perspective]
When the world map is resized according to the number of war deaths, the African continent is by far the largest.
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The worldmap resized for the number of war deaths
Source: www.worldmapper.org
© Copyright 2006 SASI Group (University of Sheffield) and Mark Newman (University of Michigan)