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Dispatch News Desk

Published Date: Mar 5, 2013

Peace building workshop held for local leaders of AJK, KPK and Punjab

Local
leaders hailing from various districts across Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Khyber
Pakhtunkhawa and Punjab vowed to prevent violence and promote peace in their
communities through collaborative, solution-oriented approaches during a
five-day training workshop on peace building jointly organized by Sustainable
Development Policy Institute (SDPI) and Search for Common Ground|Pakistan
(SFCG).

According
to a press release issued by SDPI, conducted as part of SFCG|Pakistan’s
national “Pakistan Peace Initiative”, a project supported by the Danish
International Development Agency (DANIDA), the training aimed to enhance the
capacity of Pakistan’s local leaders to explore issues affecting them through a
constructive approach that is geared towards reconciliation and peacebuilding.

Held
on February 1-5, the workshop was attended by 16 participants comprising local
political leaders, tribal elders, religious scholars, Jirga members, district
government officials, representatives from civil society organizations and the
private sector.

These
trained leaders for peace will also participate in forthcoming district-level
dialogue forums where they will engage in constructive discussions on
peacebuilding and democratization processes.

“We
are standing at a poin in Pakistan’s history when there is an urgent need to
localize the concepts of peace and security,” said SFCG|Pakistan Country
Director, Ammara Durrani while addressing the workshop’s concluding session.
“Our local communities have indigenous solutions and a genuine social will to
resolve conflicts through creative collaborations. We need to explore and
harness this tremendous social capital.”

Executive
Director SDPI, Dr. Abid Suleri stated that: “Conflict transformation implies
finding a common ground between conflicting parties, which essentially creates
a win-win situation for all.”

During
the workshop, participants learned successful negotiation skills including
establishing common goals, focusing on interests not positions, separation of
people from the problem, inventing options for mutual gain, and openness to
third-party assistance.

At
its conclusion, Country Director SFCG|Pakistan and Executive Director SDPI
distributed certificates amongst the participants.

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