Hello Hivers,I greet you all and it's my hope that everyone here is doing well. This is my first time posting in this community but it's my wish and I'm always ready to share my weekend experiences to contribute massively to making impacts collectively on hive.
Today Saturday was awesome because I've been privileged to have attended a worshop on peace building and conflict resolution of which I will like to share some of the things that was discussed.
This project is funded by the European Union, USAID in collaboration with the National peace council and COGINTA an NGO who are into security sector grievances, crime prevention and social cohesion.
This training aim at strengthening peace building, violence prevention and some mechanisms.
COGINTA supports civil society organizations for peace building and the prevention of violence.
We discussed issues and trying to understand that security is a collective responsibility.
We deliberated on Conflict, Violence, Social Cohesion and Violent extremism.
We understood that conflict and is natural because it's unavoidable and sometimes neutral but it's also a clash.
We also deliberated on what is Violence and per the ideas people had collectively, we understood it can be defined as causing destruction and inflicting pains but we also understood that violence is not neutral and one thing about voilence is that, when you are socialize into violence, you turn to be more violent.
We also touched on the types of violence and that is, physiological ,psychological,structural and cultural violence.
We also discussed the causes of conflicts.
We understood that the deprivation of individuals and communities access to the means of satisfying their basic human needs is behind all violent conflicts.
"The human being is created to be loved but in the modern days, we love things and use human beings "
Moreover, Sometimes we need to go against our culture and traditions in order to live our full capacities as human beings.
And you can't nature children by insulting them but rather dehumanising them and reducing their self esteem and to get the best out of our children, we need to always encourage and motivate them.
Furthermore, We discussed issues regarding prejudice and stereotypes and it affects.
We demonstrated prejudice using some participants and understanding that everybody judges from his or her position and trying to understand that we all have different opinions and mindsets and to be able achieve a harmonious and friendly environment we need to obey each others opinions to build social cohesion and a cohesive society.
Most problems wont exist if people understood arguments and discussions.
The picture depicts that, one need to get closer to actually know the real image of something or someone also we need to understand that everyone sees things from different angles and perspective.
We also discussed violent extremism that has to do with rejections of acceptable norms and believes by giving alternative violently.
All in all we had an awesome and a very insightful weekend.
Thanks for reading!!!