Accra, Ghana

The West Africa Peacebuilding Institute (WAPI) is a three-week course offered annually by the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP). It is designed to strengthen the capacity of civil society-based peacebuilding practitioners and institutions across the West Africa sub-region and beyond and aims to promote the development of indigenous responses to conflict. According to the organisers, WAPI was established to provide specialised, intensive, and culturally sensitive training in conflict transformation and peacebuilding to individuals, civil society organisations (CSOs), policy-makers, and other relevant actors.

The objectives of the course are to:

• develop action-oriented capacity for conflict transformation and peacebuilding;
• increase the number of competent, informed, and active peacebuilding practitioners in West Africa and worldwide;
• provide quality training in peacebuilding at a reduced cost;
• develop context specific and indigenous models of conflict transformation and peacebuilding that can be integrated with existing models; and
• bridge the gap between policy and practice in peacebuilding.

The training includes courses on peacebuilding, facilitated dialogue, and mediation; justice-building and conflict resolution; women and gender mainstreaming in peacebuilding; youth and peace education; early warning and early response; and human security, developmen,t and peace.

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The institute is divided into three sessions. Fees for all three sessions is US$3,000. This includes tuition, accommodation and meals, and course materials.


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