The Africa Centre for Peace Building-Ghana, Global Educators for All Initiatives-Nigeria, The Emmanuel Ivogba Foundation and United Religions Initiatives -West Africa and their partners wish to announce the 1st West Africa Peace Dialogue on the theme “Sustaining Regional Peace To Promote Trade, Investment and Development in West Africa” scheduled for September 20-21, 2019 at the University of Professional Studies, Accra-Ghana.
In recent times, Africa is experiencing a new trend of conflict – homophobic attacks which were witnessed in South Africa. The most recent is Ghana and Nigeria trade feud and this development if not curb will become a serious threat to Africa Unity.
We, as organizations with a strong foundation built on the principles of peace and harmony see peaceful co-existence among neighbouring nations is a key element to promoting trade, investment and human capital development which lead to solving some basic social problems like unemployment, poverty and hunger. These social problems are an influential undertone to conflict and civil unrest.
We also noted that adherence to national laws without key references to regional laws and treaties signed by states within a region could form a basis for regional conflicts hence defeating the common goals for establishing regional blocs in Africa.
Against this, we are bringing together West Africa governments, media, legal practitioners, academic and civil society organizations within the West Africa Sub-regions for the 1st West Africa Peace Dialogue which is on the theme. The dialogue will explore how best members within the sub-region can promote sisterhood, peace and trade for the development of the people whiles taking into account national laws and international treaties.
The dialogue will have keynote addresses and panel discussions where speakers and high personalities will be assembled from the business community, law, media, academia and governments to discuss specific areas. This will have the opportunity for participants to interact with the speakers and panellists on the issues.
The second section will focus on the research paper presentation where researchers who have done some works on the areas of such conflicts will help find some of underpinning factors to such conflict and how they can be resolved.
We use to use this media to call on the media, corporate bodies and development partners within the West Africa sub-region and beyond to support this dialogue.
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– Mr. Korsi Senyo, Executive Director, Africa Centre for Peace Building-Accra, Ghana, Cell: +233249155003 – Email: senyo@afcopb.org
– Dr. Raphael Ogar Oko, International Coordinator, Global Educators for All Initiative-Abuja, Nigeria
– Dr. Emmanuel Ande Ivorgba, Regional Coordinators, United Religions Initiative-West Africa
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How to participate:
visit http://afcopb.org/events/wapd/
