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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, 2002. 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.

Long-term programs are already active and running in some countries of West Africa through the themes around which the courses are built. As a result, all of the courses are rich in experience and rooted in the West African reality.

The training reflected on actions taken and developed new strategies, emphasising praxis. Each year new courses generated from issues of justice, peacebuilding, development and governance may be added.

Courses

• Introduction to Peacebuilding Paradiagms
• Active Nonviolence and Peace Education
• 'Preventive' Peacebuilding: Early Warning and Early Response