Progress report for
Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding
Achievement at a glance
Visited Nigeria Army Operation Safe Haven in Plateau State for synergy and mutual Partnership for Peacebuilding and conflicts Prevention and Control in plateau State, we have agreed,signed to work together.On Mangu massacre, Birom Farmers massacre,Farmer Herders reprisal attacks, Religion and Political tensions etc. We met actors and Instigators of violence for mediation and Peace Accord. The elders and actors welcome our mediation and mitigation and ready to sort their differences.
Youths Volunteers have been working with Army for information and interfaces with actors of violence.
There's also constant surveillance since 2019-2022 by IIPSC Community Volunteers.
Uncovered Bandit and counterfeit currency trader hub in Bauchi State.
Uncovered hid out of kidnappers and bandits in Nasarawa State.
Trainig Excercise for Vulnerable Communities on Crisis Zones-safety and rescues
All other pictorial evidence and more achievements are recorded on our website and SDGs-iipsc link.
Challenges faced in implementation
Funding for February Advance Training and engage more community Volunteers.Fund to organize Seminars and roundtable dialogue
Political interference
Lack of Government financial Commitment,bias and favouritism.
Lack of Partnership and Support
Next Steps
2024 PROGRAMME BLUEPRINTINTELLIGENT INITIATIVES FOR PEACE AND SECURITY CONSCIOUSNESS (IIPSC) WORK PLAN
(CONFLICTS AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION FOR OUR VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES, NIGERIA)
#USAID
#UNSDG
#USIP
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#THE PRESIDENCY-OSGOF,NSA.
TRAINIG PROGRAMME, FEBRUARY-MARCH 2024
The Intelligent Initiative for Peace and Security Consciousness IIPSC is a dedicated training and coordinating people whose keen interest is to work with IIPSC with our Partner-USAID,USIP, UNSDGs, United Nations System, serving some 2700 beneficiaries annually by conducting the training and related events around the Nigeria. The Mission of IIPSC is to develop individual, Communities, institutional and organizational capacities of the States and other Peacebuilding stakeholders through high-quality learning solutions and related knowledge products and services to enhance decision making and to support country-level action for overcoming national challenges. in view of the above; for efficiency and effectiveness, for professionalism in our work as stated above, Trainig Excercise to enhance professional conduct with the best global practices on Peacebuilding; the Six weeks intensive Training has been scheduled for February to March 2024 at the Nigeria Police Academy, Minna, Niger State,Nigeria.
PASSING OUT PARADE, MARCH 2024
This is Post-Training Excercise to create awareness on the incoming volunteer operation on Peacebuilding via Conflicts and Violence Prevention. the PoP will draw attention of the relevant stakeholders and the Beneficiaries of our readiness to do the self-mandated volunteer work for our communities. this will take place a week after training.
PEACE SUMMIT,APRIL 2024
Peace Summit is scheduled for April 2024 to give tentative message on our volunteer Scheme to curb violence, killing and political induced genocide. the summit will avail us the opportunity to present our Youth Trainees and also inform them the scope of activities for synergy, understanding and cooperation.We believed that the best way to reconcile Conflicts is mediation and dialogue,then peace enforcement, not with Knife and gun, neither via intimidation. it's the right time to hold our Government Accountable for the loss of lives and Properties. the failure of Government to carry out their oat and constitutional assignment for the common man has put the entire country in danger.
DEPLOYMENT, APRIL 2024
All the Volunteer Officers shall be deployed back to their various Communities to commence operation in synergy with their counterpart across board same day on the Peace Summit.
OPERATIONS, APRIL -SEPTEMBER 2024
All the Trainees shall return back to their various Communities for Peacebuilding Initiative and Operation learned, there shall be strong synergy and understanding among the Tribes and Religion across the various Communities who participated in the Training and such shall be replicated where our members works. the training, orientation and initiative input in them will help them to work as a team, brotherhood with mutual understanding devoid of any political influence to enable us safe our Communities.
PARTNERSHIP
We seek the attention of the USAID, USIP,UNSDGs and Peacekeeping Training Programme Unit of UN Division for Peace to adopt the Initiatives of our organization. USAID,USIP and the UN Division for Peace Unit who contributes to the international community’s efforts towards the peaceful resolution of conflicts and the building of lasting peace. Recognising that peace is a prerequisite for the achievement of the Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals, USAID, USIP and PTPU supports the development of capacities in the areas of conflict prevention, negotiation, mediation and reconciliation, restoration of the rule of law, preventing and countering violent extremism, youth and women empowerment, as well as enhancing the peacemaking capacities of minorities, indigenous peoples’ representatives and those who often face marginalization to “leave no one behind.” Through innovative and results-oriented approaches, the Programme Unit strengthens knowledge and skills of individuals, groups, and institutions...this is exactly what IIPSC stand for. the Partnership will afford us Funding Support for the efficacy of this project.
In alignment with the Agenda 2030 as well as IIPSC's strategic vision, the Youth and Women’s Empowerment pillar within IIPSC’s Division for Peace contributes to Nigeria in which young people as well as women are able to participate in and contribute to, on an equal base and at all levels, to the sustaining peace agenda.
THEMATIC CONTEXT:
USAID;
USAID has Development assistance needs new ways of thinking about conflict and how aid in these contexts can be planned and implemented. That is why USAID gives priority attention to conflict and violence prevention.
Conducted more than 85 conflict-related assessments in approximately 50 countries.Trained more than 900 government, interagency and non-government partners in the necessary tools to design programs and ensure a peacebuilding approach in conflict-affected environments since 2012. 7 Countries took part in Conflicts assessment in 2019 conducted by USAID.
USIP;
USIP Suggested Alternative Ways to Measure Peace in Nigeria.
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
By: Yagana Bukar; Chris Kwaja; Aly Verjee
When measured by the death toll, Nigeria seems beset by violence. By some accounts, the COVID-19 pandemic has made experiences of violence even more common — notably, Nigeria recorded a 169% increase in abductions between 2019 and 2020. While quantifying violence is relatively straightforward, defining what peace means to ordinary Nigerians has been largely overlooked, even if such definitions may be more meaningful. By exploring more nuanced understandings of peace, how these vary between and across communities, and finding which indicators of peace are most valued, peace might be better pursued. We went in search of how people in the states of Bauchi, Kaduna, Nasarawa,Taraba,Benue,Kogi,Borno,Yobe,Niger and Plateau define peace. Here are six of our most important findings.the hypothesis is equal to zero. no peace,no hope and no trust in Government.
Type: Analysis and Commentary
Conflict Analysis & Prevention; Fragility & Resilience.
UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCILS
On 9 December, 2015, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2250 - its first-ever resolution on Youth, Peace and Security - thereby recognising the importance of the positive contributions which young people are making for the maintenance and promotion of international peace and security. Furthermore, it affirmed the important role that youth need to assume in the prevention and resolution of conflicts and called for the engagement of youth as partners and leaders at all levels of decision-making and peacebuilding processes. Since then, progress studies such as “The Missing Peace” and the two subsequent resolutions (UNSCR 2419 and UNSCR 2535), have called for additional measures to increase the influence and participation of youth in peacebuilding processes. Specifically, The Missing Peace urges the international community to “invest in the capacities, agency and leadership of young people”. It has thus become clear that education, training and capacity building of both youth and their counterparts at local, national and regional levels are essential to translate the resolutions on Youth, Peace and Security from the halls of the United Nations to policymakers, actors and change-agents at the ground level.
Over the recent years, IIPSC has consolidated its offer in the thematic area of Youth Empowerment. Recognising the synergies between the SDGs (in particular SDGs 4, 5, 7, 10, 16 and 17) and in line with the priorities of the Youth, Peace and Security agenda, IIPSC supports youth and youth counterparts by developing capacities of individuals, organisations and institutions to enhance youths’ potential to meet their communities most pressing peacebuilding needs.
We therefore, request for Partnership and Support to enable us carry out this Nation Building Agenda enshrined in the UN-SDGS 2030 which IIPSC is ready to consolidate the vision and mission.
SOLUTIONS-NIGERIA
IIPSC understood the root causes of Conflicts and disputes in Nigeria. There are different factors that responsible for the outbreak of violence. for instance; the recent killing of over 200 people and over 500 Displaced in Plateau State as at 20th-27th December 2023 was politically masterminded. One of the things we should do is to Begin with "reorientation" to the Youths, of course they are fighting injustice and marginalization, but they are better way of doing it.
IIPSC have design a Programme for 2024 Peacebuilding Initiative, and we shall itemized them accordingly, all we need now is collaboration, synergy, Partnership and Support to enable restore sanity to the fagile Communities.
Thank you.
Amb.Caleb Audu Ahmed
Project Coordinator
IIPSC,Nigeria
iipsc2016@gmail.com
www.iipsc.org.ng
+2347066302641
Beneficiaries
Vulnerable Communities and Restive Communities where the presence of the security Agencies are not felt. Women and girls, Schools and Market Women, Farmers and Herders, Disabilities and aged Persons.
Actions
Direct interface with the Actors and Instigators of Conflicts for mediation, negotiation and Reconciliation.Youth Volunteers on constant surveillance in Communities to enforce durable peace operations in synergy of our security Agencies.
Sensitizations and orientation on conflicts Prevention among the Youths is ongoing
Campaigns on consequences of violence and disunity.etc