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Operating Principles - Local
ownership of peacebuilding processes. Those who directly or indirectly are involved
in a conflict situation are critical to peacebuilding efforts. Third party must
ensure that they are empowered to make decisions and not making decisions for
them. WANEP's strategy is to locate, empower, support and accompany local actors
as they respond to conflicts of their communities.
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Peacebuilding is a process not an event. It can be gradual or rapid depending
on the nature of the conflict and the personalities of the parties. All this must
be consider as we set goals and form expectations.
- Reconciliation
is at the heart of peacebuilding. Peacebuilding is about repairing broken human
relationships. It includes empowering victims to work for the healing of their
trauma, increasing the awareness of the perpetrators to take responsibility for
their actions and facilitating communication amongst the two sectors that will
restore both their humanity and relationships.
- Collaborative
peacebuilding. Peacebuilding is about complementarity and not duplication; about
collaboration and not competition. WANEP's strategy focuses on mobilizing actors
to clearly delineate their roles, responsibilities, strengths and limitations
and evolve a coordinated and harmonized response to any conflict and process of
change.
- People
and their transformation are crucial to peacebuilding. Transformation instead
of ad hoc management or resolution of conflict is at the core of WANEP's philosophy.
We believe people are the agents of their own change. Conversion instead of manipulation
or coercion is central to WANEP's transformative philosophy. WANEP targets people's
attitude, understanding, behavior, interest, culture, and context for transformation.
- Peacebuilding
is a call to commitment and not to a career. Sacrifice and endurance are the intangible
fortresses that guide WANEP.
- Peacebuilding
is strategic and requires long-term commitment and flexibility. It cultivates
imagination where immediate reactive tendencies are prevalent. It leads protagonists
to look beyond their problems and see a future. Envisioning is the strategy that
WANEP initiates as first entry in any conflict situation.
- Understanding
the root causes of conflict is key to any intervention. Beginning with an in depth
assessment of all conflict situations is the strategy.
- Inclusiveness
in response by involving all actors and stakeholders. There are many different
actors, instruments, and systems that affect the peace of a relationship, community
and society. Bringing all actors on-board and planning with the whole picture
in mind is critical.
- Keeping
the process simple . Conflicts already lead to confusion and bewilderment. By
helping the parties to respond gradually in a less complicated fashion removes
the fear that conflicts especially intractable conflicts are insurmountable.
- Respect
for the dignity of any and every person irrespective of sexual, religious, or
cultural orientation is the bedrock of human relationships. Peacebuilding is about
demonstrating reverence and appreciation for our common humanity and living with
our differences.
- Accountability.
Our first line of accountability is to those who are the beneficiaries of our
intervention. The source of WANEP's legitimacy is the members and the communities
we serve. We ensure that our reports are sensitive to the needs of this audience.
The second group is the partners who support us financially and the third
includes all interested parties in the work of peacebuilding.
- Solidarity.
African traditions and values impel us to see beyond our territories and give
a hand to any human being in need, especially a fellow African. Problems are never
individual's they are communal.
- Cost
effectiveness. We work in a cost effective way.
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