Decolonizing Peacebuilding Interventions and Approaches

As conflict dynamics continue to change and violence escalates globally, especially in communities, we see an unprecedented shift and constant engagements in the Conflict Analysis and Resolution and peacebuilding field among stakeholders, toward contextually creative, innovative, and effective community led approaches. In the virtual event, a panel of international development and peacebuilding actors will discuss effective innovative processes that tend to anchor on an emerging paradigm, Emancipatory religious elicitive peacebuilding. It is a framework, which fundamentally embraces phenomenological, metaphysical, and ethical realities in peacebuilding and operationalizes the concept of a just peace, and acknowledges a global approach to peace that tends to resolve the difficulties the various CAR and peacebuilding theoretical schools encounter.
Panelists:
Charles Kwuelum, PhD Candidate (ABD), Carter School, and Senior Peace Education and Advocacy Associate, International Affairs, NPJM/Mennonite Central Committee
Benjamin Maiangwa, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada
Lantana Abdullahi Bako National Co-Coordinator, the Nigerian Women Mediators Network & Women for Positive Peacebuilding Initiative
Gopar Tapkida, Co-Representative for Mennonite Central Committee, Zimbabwe