Participants of the training programme organised by the Peace Channel.
DIMAPUR, JANUARY 24 (MExN): The Peace Channel organised a Training of Trainers (ToT) on peace club, peer mediation forum and peace forum for peace with the MSW - Peace and Conflict Transformation students of North East Institute of Social Sciences and Research (NEISSR) and North East Christian University (NECU), Dimapur on January 21.
Addressing the participants, Dr Fr CP Anto, Director, Peace Channel stated that Peace Channel seeks to address the underlying causes of conflict in the community and, empower people to resolve their own differences amicably and peacefully by laying the foundations of conflict transformation and peace building to prevent future violence through the formation of Peace Club, Peer Mediation Forum and Peace Forum.
One of the fundamental activities of Peace Channel is the formation of Peace Club in educational institutions and localities in the region where a group of children forms an organised group and are capacitated on various peace building skills.
Here, the members are given platforms to explore, experience and express their aspirations in gathering. The members come to share, learn, heal and built relationships and make decisions to promote reconciliation, stand firm on values, truth and justice. They are empowered as peace builders and problem settlers in their personal life, family life and educational institutions and communities among the peers.
Peer Mediation Forum (PMF) is one of the major activities of Peace Channel which mainly focuses on the youths in colleges, universities and localities in the region. Peer Mediation Forum is a group of trained individuals in Peer Mediation who volunteers to help individuals with problems through structured communication process in which the individuals or group with a problem, work together assisted by a neutral third party, to solve the problem. Peer Mediation Forum help members improve self-esteem, listening and critical thinking skills, and institution’s climate for learning, as well as reduce disciplinary actions.
The workshop was attended by 23 participants in total.
