Project name:Peace building among local communities, returnees and displaced people
Date: 2023
The donor: UNTAMS
Locations: West Kordofan State Lagawa Locality
Overall Objective: To contribute to building peace between local communities, returnees and displaced persons, achieving peaceful coexistence in Lagawa locality, and preventing conflict within the West Kordofan region and across borders between localities and residents.

Sub-objectives:

• Raise awareness about conflict resolution and peaceful coexistence.
• Strengthening traditional mechanisms for conflict transformation.
• Contribute to helping displaced people and returnees
• Create social cohesion among the various ethnic groups living in the region

Activities:

• Community dialogues for different groups
• Reconciliation sessions between conflicting parties
• Women’s Coffee Sessions
• Large intertribal reconciliation conferences
• Sessions for safe spaces for women (psychological support)
• Providing general humanitarian services
• Assistance in income-generating activities

Project results

• Families with intermarriage relations continue after 7 years
• Opening the Abu Jannouk administration
• Visiting the local government for the first time after the siege that lasted 7 years
• Resolving internal disputes between conflicting groups
• Sitting with the governor to pressure and advocate the opening of the common market
• Inclusion between different groups of all social groups
• Work in the spirit of teamwork
• Increasing the interdependence between the displaced community members, returnees and the host community
• Creating a youth sports movement that contributed to the formation of new youth teams
• Forming a committee to follow up the upgrading and development of the neighbourhood
• The beginning of the neighbourhood planning procedures in cooperation with the Planning and Land Office to organize informal housing
• Exchange visits between different categories
• Community interaction with the role played by influential word owners
• Contribute to reducing tensions and tribal intolerance
• Developing the skills of displaced and returnees women in income generating activities and food processing
• Which reflected positively on the Lagawa market with the emergence of some locally manufactured food products
• Calm down and neutralize the two parties in entering into a new conflict
• Supporting the concept of peaceful coexistence between the two components
• Reconciliation between the two parties was achieved by the intervention of the civil administration of both parties
• Establishing and strengthening the principles and culture of peace
• Forming a local mechanism to maintain peace”
• Agreeing to the civil solution
• Avoid the revenge process
• Spread the spirit of tolerance and love
• Promote the concept of peace and acceptance of the other
• lessons learned women’s groups are the group that serves the community peace process the most because they are stakeholders and the group that responds the most to peace because they are by nature peaceful and more interactive with the importance of living in peace
• Forming a youth body concerned with spreading the culture of peace and rejecting tribal violence
• Formation of an association to discuss women’s issues
• Increasing bonding between women and the emergence of new initiatives
• reduce tensions, Initiate visits and Shopping in Lagawa Market”