Describe the tracks of peacemaking activities

      

Describe the tracks of peacemaking activities

  

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- Government:
This is the first track. Government is involved in peacemaking through the formal processes and institutions of government that involves official diplomacy, policy making and peace building activities, and should involve crisis management and the maintenance of law and order.

- Non-governmental/Professional or Peacemaking through conflict Resolution:
This relates to the realm of conflict management by professionals or non-governmental organizations. Their activities are in the areas of analysis, prevention, resolution and management of conflict.

- Business or Peacemaking through Commerce:
The field of business can make enormous contributions to peacemaking in potential and actual forms. It provides economic and commercial opportunities, which prevent conflict. It also helps to build local and international friendship and understanding, and opens informal channels of communication as well as other ways of supporting peace building activities.

- Private Citizen, Peacemaking through Personal Involvement:
Individual citizens can be involved in peace and development activities through citizen diplomacy, exchange programs, private voluntary organizations, non-governmental organizations and other peacemaking activities. The peace activities of African like he late Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, the 2008 Koffi Anan mediation talks in Kenya, Yakubu Gowon, Olusegune Obasanjo and Abdulsalam Abubakar of Nigeria, Nelson Mandela of South Africa and Graca Machel of Mozambique are some of the examples.

- Research, Training and Education, or Peacemaking through Learning:
This track covers three areas of research as it connects to educational institutions and specialized institutes, think tanks and special research centers. It includes training programmes in conflict and peace and specialized skills of negotiation, mediation, and general conflict transformation.

- Activities or peacemaking through Advocacy:
This covers practices and activities like active non-violence, peace and environmental activism, human rights protection and peace, campaigns against the proliferation of small arms and light weapons, social and economic justice and protests against governmental policies that threaten peace, etc.

- Religion or Peacemaking through Faith in Action:
This track deals with beliefs and peace-oriented actions of spiritual and religious communities, Pacifism, humanism, non-violence, brotherliness, as promoted by dominant religions is in this track.

- Funding or Peacemaking through providing Resources:
The funding community is a silent but crucial actor in the peacemaking realm. Many foundations exist, most of them in the developed countries that provide resources to governmental and private groups, to engage in peace building activities.

- Communications and the Media, or Peacemaking through Information:
The media and all the channels for the dissemination of information are the aggregate of public opinion and the voice of the people. This comes in different forms, such as print and electronic, film, video, etc. The media can promote peace if it selects to, but the media can also promote conflict if it chooses to.

Titany answered the question on August 11, 2021 at 09:47


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