JUSTICE AND PEACE COMMISSION EMPOWERS WOMEN ON PEACE BUILDING

By Stephen Ojang with input from Rose Obah

Women paying attention to lectures on peace building

The Justice and Peace Commission of the Archdiocese of Bamenda, recently schooled over 25 women on audience and influence in Peace building and Conflict Transformation. These women were real grassroot women- market women popularly known as 'buyam Sellams,' farmers, local community leaders, church leaders, teachers, journalists, housewives just to name these few.

For one full day, the media and peace building, consultant and Facilitator, Rosaline A Obah, the National Coordinator of the Cameroon Community Media Network CCMN, taught women what conflict transformation is, strategies to build peace, and how to resolve conflicts beginning from the family, to the community especially in their different areas of influence.

Rose A Obah delivering peace building lectures.

The workshop ended with the women very satisfied with resolutions to come out of their shelves and function as local women peace builders, capable of resolving conflicts in their various communities through taking part in visible actions and decisions, bearing in mind that they have a pivotal role to place in the peace building process in the two English speaking regions and Cameroon in general.

"We are part of the solution, and therefore we must be active for peace to return to the nation," they concluded on this note. Worthy of note is the fact that, inspiration for this workshop came from the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Bamenda in his recent release on, "Now is the Time for Peace."

Stories and best practices were shared by the local women on challenges faced, and also how they can be part of success stories in conflict resolution. This to to the ultimate satisfaction of Madame Laura Anyola Tufon, the Coordinator of the Justice and Peace Commission.

Laura Anyola Tufon, the Coordinator of the Justice and Peace Commission.

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