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Taraba Assembly to establish conflict resolution commission

Taraba Assembly to establish conflict resolution commission
By Martins Abochol
Commission
Jalingo, June 3, 2019 (NAN) The ninth Taraba State House of Assembly says it will to enact a law establishing a Peace and Conflict Resolution Commission to mitigate crisis in the state.
Mr Abel Diah, the newly elected Speaker of the house, made the declaration on Monday while addressing newsmen in Jalingo.
Diah (PDP-Gembu) said that the existing interfaith peace and conflict resolution committee would be strengthened to a full government agency.
He said that the commission would be given the constitutional mandate to review and meditate into herdsmen/farmers clashes, interethnic conflicts and religious crisis.
He said that the ninth assembly would work hard in collaboration with the executive to stem the tide of conflicts and other crimes in the state.
NAN recalls that Diah was re-elected unopposed by the 24-member legislature as speaker on Monday.
He was the speaker of the last assembly. (NAN)
MK/MST
Edited by Muhammad Suleiman Tola

Health

NGO trains 300 Adamawa traditional rulers on conflict resolution

,NGO trains 300 Adamawa traditional rulers on conflict resolution
By Yakubu Uba
Training
Yola, April 23, 2018 (NAN) More than 300 traditional rulers, comprising District, Village and Ward Heads, have been trained on conflict resolution in Adamawa.
The State Team Leader, Managing Conflicts in Nigeria (MCN), Mr Abdulkadir Bello, made this known on Monday Yola.
Bello spoke at a capacity building programme on conflicts resolution for traditional rulers and community leaders in Adamawa and Mubi Emirate Councils.
He said the programme organised by Green Horizon, was funded by European Union (EU) and managed by the British Council.
Bello said the traditional rulers were trained on traditional justice system in areas of mediation skills to handle conflicts such as land disputes, destruction of farm produce by cattle and inheritance, among others.
The Technical Leader of MCN, Dr Ukoha Ukiwo, explained that the training was designed to strengthen community level conflict management mechanism, and enhance reconciliation and stability within communities affected by displacement, among other objectives.
Speaking on behalf of Adamawa and Mubi emirate councils, the Dan Galadima of Adamawa, Alhaji Lawal Ribadu, and the Madaki of Mubi, Alhaji Abubakar Wambai, lauded the programme and re-iterated the commitment of the traditional institution to ensure the programme succeeded in addressing conflicts in their respective domains.
Giving a breakdown of success so far recorded by the programme in the two benefitting emirates, Prof. Aminu Gurin of ABU Zaria, said 457 disputes between January and March, this year
According to him, the disputes comprised 213 from Adamawa emirate council and 244 from Mubi emirate council.
He urged other traditional institutions to key into the programme to achieve sustainable peace and development in the country. (NAN)
YMU/MST
Edited by Muhammad Suleiman Tola

Health

NGO advocates equal participation of women in conflict resolution

NGO advocates equal participation of women in conflict resolution

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Resolution

By Chinenye Offor

Abuja, April 10, 2017 (NAN) Mrs Ann Nwadinobi, Manager Women and Girls Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme, an NGO, has called for equal participation of women in peace and conflict resolution.

Nwadinobi made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja.

According to her, inclusion and equal participation of women in conflict and peace resolution will help achieve the goals of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on women’s peace and security.

She said that the first objective of the resolution was to ensure that violence against women and girls were reduced as well as protection from abduction and sexual abuse during conflict.

She added that the second said that “women and girls be allowed in the whole spectrum of peace resolution, participation in the military, among others, and also participate in negotiations and mediations’’.

“There should be at least 50 per cent of women in the panel of conflict resolution.

“Women should participate in panel of inquiry, mediation and signing of peace resolution and rebuilding.

“In Rwanda, mostly women are the ones doing the plumbing, electricity, among others. Prevention, humanitarian services and mediations,’’ she said.

Nwadinobi noted that Nigeria joined other countries of the world in the year 2000 to sign this resolution.

According to her, in 2012 with the help of Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme (NSRP), the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs produced a National Action Plan (NAP) which has been implemented.

“In our support, NSRP has eight states with action plan which include Borno, Yobe, Kano Kaduna, Plateau, Delta, Rivers and Bayelsa.

“Also in winning peace and security, two states of Plateau and Kaduna, have done something extraordinary which we don’t have in the whole ECOWAS region.

“They have come up with their own plan to reduce violence against women during conflict,’’ she said.

The manager therefore enjoined the Federal Government to imbibe the new security resolution 2349 which welcomed the need for equal participation of women in conflict resolution. (NAN)

CSO/GOM/MST

Edited by Gregory Mmaduakolam/Muhammad Suleiman Tola