HRCSJP work innovatively with students, teachers and artists to promote peace and tolerance in the province. HRCSJP believes in learning from history. The organisation provided training to 500 students and 250 teachers in non-formal education institutes about “The Role of Youth in Saving the World from Extremism and Racism”.

For the first time in the history of Balochistan, artists were educated about the destruction of the Second World War, the need for peace through painting and poetry, and their role to save society from every kind of violence, discrimination, hatred, bigotry and extremism. Two pictorial exhibitions showing the destruction of World Wars were also conducted, which inspired the young people and artists to promote peace and love.

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Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution

COPDA’s ‘Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution’ programme promotes peaceful co-existence within the community through mediation and resolution of community conflicts. In collaborations with judicial actors, specifically the police and courts, as an essential component of this programme, COPDA target other surrounding communities and conduct conflict monitoring activities with the aim of ensuring conflicts are prevented through Early Warning interventions.

COPDA carries out free dispute resolution initiatives at the community level. The aim is to peacefully settle common dispute situations which have the tendency to escalate, degenerate and go beyond control. Local citizens, including target beneficiaries, visit the offices on a daily basis in seeking redress to the many conflicts they find themselves in. COPDA has hired a Paralegal Officer who is directly responsible to mediate and resolve cases and other conflict issues.

Human Rights Programmes

COPDA’s human rights programme is based on measures which seek to inculcate basic human rights principles as enshrined in the Liberian Constitution and international human rights statutes and at the same time, seek avenues for the protection of the rights of every person, irrespective of race, nationality, creed, or sex.

COPDA carries out human rights awareness-raising activities through a number of measures which include REFLECT, School Human Rights Clubs, Radio programme broadcasts, Newsletter publications, workshops, etc. COPDA is engaged in monitoring human rights conditions, conducting fact-finding missions to investigate violations and reporting on Human Rights violations perpetrated by community members and other parties in various parts of Nimba County (Northern Liberia) where COPDA is based.

COPDA’s key areas of intervention over the past year has been undertaking programmes which seek to ensure that the rule of law is promoted and right to due process is respected as a means to promote peace. COPDA’s training and consultations with judicial personnel, the police and other paramilitary personnel have helped to ensure that the human rights of accused and detained persons are respected and the right to due process is respected.

Democratic Leadership Program

The role of local leaders in promoting transparent and accountable leadership has become crucial and important to reducing poverty and promoting democratic reforms. The aim of COPDA’s leadership programme is to build good leaders who will serve the good of the local citizens and build democratic leadership, which will put to practice good governance and tolerance. As a result of the civil war, most local leaders were killed or joined the fighting forces. The vacuum that was created needs to be filled as a new breed of leaders has emerged at the grassroots yearning to assume positions of power. COPDA seeks to work with local leaders at the grassroots community level, training them to inculcate principles of good governance and human rights in an effort to build their capacity to perform. COPDA has established within each community targeted a five-member Community Leadership Forum (CLF).

The Forum comprises prominent citizens of the community who are working directly with local leaders and their citizens. The Forum monitors and reports on human rights and leadership performance. Their role is to advocate for the common good of the community and ensure that the rights of all persons are respected as a means for sustaining peaceful co-existence and democracy.

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