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What Inspired WAPI?
In 1997, the West
Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP), the Nairobi Peace Initiative
(NPI-) and the Institute for Justice and Peacebuilding in Virginia,
USA collaborated to conduct five sub-regional capacity building workshops in
peacebuilding for Western, Central and Eastern African regions. During these
workshops participants raised key concerns for peacebuilding training activities
in Africa. Some of the issues included the following:.... read more ...
Why
a Subregional Focus?
We
have chosen a sub-regional focus instead of a continental focus for a number of
reasons: first, compared to other regions like south, east, and north Africa,
West Africa has less developed structures and activities in peacebuilding. ....
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WAPI
2007 
WAPI 2007 opens.
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WAPI
2006
WAPI 2006 opens. .....read
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WAPI
2005
WAPI
2005 ended on September 23, 2005 of which the 3-week educational training
event took place at the Kofi Annan International
Peacekeeping Training Centre, in Teshie, Accra, Ghana. 2005's session
has participants from West, Eastern and Southern Africa and the United Kingdom.
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WAPI
2004
WAPI
2004 took place from September 6 to September 24 in the New Coco Beach
Resort, in Teshie Nungua. 2004 hosted a diverse group of participants.
Among the 38 alumni were 4 officials from the ECOWAS Secretariat, 2
female refugees from the Buduburam Refugee camp in Accra and 7 Reverend
Sisters from the Catholic Diocese in Togo. .....read
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WAPI 2003
The
West Africa Peacebuilding Institute (WAPI), in its second year, conducted another
three-week intensive training, from September 8-27,
in collaboration with its partners; the Catholic Relief Services-West Africa Regional
Office (CRS-WARO), the Institute for Justice and Peacebuilding, Virginia-USA,
with support from CORDAID, Mennonite Central Committee, DKA and European Union.
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WAPI 2002
The
first West Africa Peacebuilding Institute was launched on September 2, 2002. 
Three
intensive courses were conducted from September 2-21. The courses ran for five
days each (40 course hours). Each course emphasized relevant skills. The courses
were selected as a result of generative themes WANEP has encountered while working
in West Africa over the past five years. There
were forty-five Participants from 14 countries in West Africa and part of Central
and Eastern Africa. ... read more
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