lsp module 1, dealing with community conflict, sept. 2011

The LEADING SKILLS Project (LSP)

BY Nathaniel Msen AWUAPILA, M.IAM

Presents…LSP Training Module: dealing with

community conflict

The LEADING SKILLS Project, August 2011 by Nathaniel Msen Awuapila, M.IAM

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LSP Module 1: Dealing with community conflictThe LEADING SKILLS Project presents LSP Module 1, a novel

youth training opportunity!It’s free, its accessible, its available to you right in your

neighbourhood!LSP Module 1 is designed to build/train youth’s awareness

and significantly enhance their capacity for situation analysis, problem solving, and conflict transformation.

LSP Module 1 KEY OUTCOMES include: that participants’ capacity for problem and conflict analysis is significantly impacted; they are able to efficiently resolve interpersonal and neighbourhood conflicts and facilitate transformation of same; and they can contribute to conflict-sensitive community building initiatives.


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A scene of conflict or disaster?

You walk into a community and are confronted by this kind of sight; what are you going to imagine?


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Gaining awareness!You walk further into the community and see things like this. What more are you going to think?


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Appreciating the impactAt this stage, you have begun to be deeply aware of the level of harm inflicted on the community. What will you do?


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You want to take a decision, an informed decision!So, you meet with the affected and other relevant persons

You go into the field to find out in all possible detail, what actually happened


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You want to determine the appropriate next course of actionSo, you find out more about the people affected by the conflict

You also do an assessment of the conflict outcomes and you seek to determine the impact on the community, now till the foreseeable future


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There are several other things to do, if you must act right!E.g. You’ll seek to learn about several other persons & groups that are involved in the situation, and the manner of their involvement;You’ll really dig deeper into the issues;You’ll discover whether the situation is getting worse or better, and why?You’ll find out who’s doing what, and why?You’ll find out what’s helpful to do, and what’s not?You’ll determine what appropriate outcomes to work toward achieving?You’ll decide on WHO to work with, HOW to do so, and WHAT gains can really result from your involvement?


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What more must you do

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WHAT TO DO?You must discover the right way

to do all of what’s detailed above;

If you want good results, you’ll do things the way they should

be done. Then, you’ll be sure you’re doing

well!

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How can LSP

help? Perhaps nothing is more commonly observed in your community today than violent conflict, often resulting in the

loss of property and human lives, also sometimes causing dislocations in human relationships, which are not easily restored.

Quite often, such violent conflicts result in the destruction of important infrastructures upon which the wellbeing of your community has depended.

Far too often, once such infrastructures are destroyed or tampered with, no one comes to the rescue. So your community has to learn to live with the intolerable situation.

But what happens most of the time? The absence of such important infrastructures, coupled with the fact that human relationships in the community have been compromised, generally tends to brew further conflict in the community.

So, what happens then? People continue to live with pain, hatred, anxiety, and regret. Yet, until somebody comes around to help restore the

broken relationships, no good can really come out of the pain, hatred, anxiety, and regrets that are felt or expressed. But even if relationships in the community are restored, you still need to bring back those important infrastructures and other facilities that can make life in the community really worth living again!

But then, we ask the question: must conflict be expressed violently? LSP agrees thus: in this world, conflict is unavoidable; still, violent conflict is surely avoidable; with adequate

amount of capacity people can live amicably or express their conflicts non-violently; this way, their relationships can indeed grow better and better; the particular capacities they require also include, the right set of attitudes and guided emotions, and trained ability to construct appropriate social structures and processes, as well as the particular skills to harness emerging opportunities that usually arise even in uncertain circumstances.

LSP also agrees that conflict is often a necessary path to growth and development, and so ought not be detested but embraced as long as it is pursued by nonviolent means.

LSP leader, Nathaniel Msen Awuapila with his team, offers free training and mentoring to desiring youths and institutions that seek to acquire or build their skills and general capacity to live in peace and build a healthy, happy community of responsible citizens whose social and physical environment is protected, for their mutual good.

The LEADING SKILLS Project, August 2011by Nathaniel Msen Awuapila, M.IAM

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Why LSP?The LEADING SKILLS Project is designed to

inspire the target audience and motivate them to act in the interest of their total growth and development, the obvious expected outcome of which is a happy youth, a peaceful neighbourhood, and a community of highly motivated, caring and collaborative persons, who jointly seek to build a global community that protects the freedoms and dignity of each human person, a community that also protects their environment.


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LSP key motivationThe LEADING SKILLS Project seeks to

persuade children and youths to realize the power of skills. You know, it’s said that knowledge is power. Truth is, the POWER in the body of knowledge resides mainly in the SKILL to apply what is known. So, knowledge without know-how is dead!


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How to benefit from LSPThe LEADING SKILLS Project comes to

you via Slideshare as easy-read power point presentations with priority focus on the learning and self-development needs of children and youths.

LSP leader, Nathaniel, may also be contacted to offer face to face once-off trainings or mentoring, based on arrangement.


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We value your feedback!The LEADING SKILLS Project welcomes the

thoughtful remarks of those that read Nathaniel’s presentations and will be willing to make necessary modifications to serve the target audience better.

LSP Contacts: [email protected] GSM: +2348066559669 Facebook: CORAFID NIGERIA Skyp: nathaniel.awuapila


mailto:[email protected]

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About LSP leader Nathaniel Msen AWUAPILA, M.IAM is the initiator of The LEADING SKILLS Project and a trainer/facilitator on

project management, governance, peacebuilding and conflict resolution. He has studied at the Claretian Institute of Philosophy (CIP), Maryland Nekede, Nigeria; Catholic University of

Eastern Africa (CUEA), Nairobi Kenya; and West Africa Peacebuilding Institute (WAPI), Accra Ghana, among others. He has studied Philosophy and taken various courses in Theology and Sociology, and holds professional qualifications in Project Management and Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution.

Nathaniel is also a researcher, public speaker, trainer, youth mentor, disaster/conflict analyst, a practicing project manager and a published author.

Some of his works include Understanding Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral (Kenbest, 2002); The Total Educator (CORAF-Network, 2003); Establishing Community Structures for Peace in North Central Nigeria (2009), in I.O. Albert & I.O. Oloyede (Eds), Dynamics of Peace Processes (John Archers); Unwrap Yourself: peace within and without (I-Proclaim, 2010), Restorative Justice, ADR and Mediation in criminal justice and prison reforms as viable opportunities to break the cycle of incarceration (Published in Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Human Rights and Prison Reform, 2011. www.internationalcure.org).

Nathaniel recently presented a paper at the 5th Annual Conference of Society for Peace Studies and Practice (SPSP), June 28 2011, on Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution Practice in North Central Nigeria: Risks, threats, and the Urgency of a Regulatory Frameworks. He also facilitated a training for elected representatives from Kuje Area Council, Abuja FCT, on Nigeria’s Draft National Peace Policy (2009), both of which are still to be published.

Nathaniel is the initiator of Civil Organisations Research, Advocacy and Funding Initiatives Development (CORAFID) as well as member, International Academy of Management. He supports the implementation of a Misereor-funded project by Health/Justice, Development and Peace Commission (HJDPC) across Nigeria’s North-Central States of Benue, Kogi, Nasarawa and Abuja FCT. He is also Chairman of Benue State Child Protection Network (BnSCPN) and Secretary-General of Society for Peace Studies and Practice (SPSP).

Nathaniel lives in Nigeria.The LEADING SKILLS Project, August 2011by Nathaniel Msen Awuapila, M.IAM

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LSP leaderNathaniel Msen Awuapila, M.IAM


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LSP leader shares!



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LSP leader (2nd from right, front row) with WANEP Nigeria colleagues engaged in disaster/conflict early warning monitoring and analysis (2011). 4th from the right is Ifeanyi Okechukwu, National Network Coordinator, WANEP Nigeria.

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On the left, LSP leader (1st from the right) presents a paper at CPSS Conference, University of Ilorin, Nigeria 2009; on the right, he addresses a traditional ruler on his NGO’s disaster mitigation support to his community in Gwer West LGA, Nigeria, Feb. 2011.


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On the left, LSP leader (2nd from the left in blue shirt) in a session with traditional rulers to review conflict situation in Agila, Ado LGA in Benue State, Nigeria (2010). Next to him is his colleague in the HJDPC, Christopher Agbo, Peace Officer of Otukpo Catholic Diocese; on the right, LSP leader addresses community women in Gwer West LGA on measures to support their IGA initiatives through CORAFID (2010).


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On the left, LSP leader (standing) facilitates a team-building exercise with colleagues and volunteers in the HJDPC in Abuja FCT, Feb. 2011; on the right, he (in yellow shirt) provides accompaniment services to the project team in the Catholic Diocese of Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria, April 2011.



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LSP leader (1st from right) just after facilitating a training session on Nigeria’s Draft Peace Policy and peace strategies for elected representatives from Kuje Area Council, Abuja FCT, Nigeria, August 2011. He is an avowed advocate for the promotion of the National Peace Policy principles.

LSP leader (middle, front row), and WANEP Nigeria’s National Network Coordinator, Ifeanyi Okechukwu, after successfully co-facilitating a training of trainers workshop on Early Warning and Early Response for officers and volunteers of HJDPC, Abuja Province. Participants were drawn from the States of Benue, Kogi, Nasarawa and Abuja FCT, Nigeria, August 2009.

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LSP leader in a warm handshake with Okene LGA Chairman (left); also in a handshake with the paramount traditional ruler of Okene (right), Kogi State, Nigeria, August 2010.


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On the left, LSP leader (left) listens to a displaced community leader in Kwande LGA, on circumstances leading to violent conflict in their community; on the right, he (backs cameraman) confers with community leaders in Agatu LGA on conflict situation in their community, Aug. 2010, Benue State, Nigeria.


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On the left, LSP leader (1st from left) enjoys a meal with colleagues at West Africa Peacebuilding Institute, Accra Ghana, Sept. 2007; on the right, he (1st from left) with CORAFID’s Peer Mentoring Team (PMT) members from Gwagwalada, Abuja FCT, Nigeria, April 2011. 2nd from the right is Magdalene Uche Ekwuye, LSP Team Facilitator , who also oversees PZR Network (PZR Network is a youth mentoring platform under CORAFID).


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On the left, LSP Team Facilitator, Magdalene Uche Ekwuye; on the right, Team Facilitator with CORAFID’s Peer Mentoring Team (PMT) in Karmo, Abuja FCT, Nigeria, May 2011.


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CORAFID key symbols (seen on the left) depict a commitment to provide the hands (by way of empowerment measures and

general accompaniment) upon which fellow citizens may find a path to their wholesome ends.


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Cheers!The LEADING SKILLS Project, August 2011by Nathaniel Msen Awuapila, M.IAM

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