Pilot of SPINN- sustainable peace in northern nigeria in four Communities

The pilot of the sustainable peace in northern Nigeria project (SPINN- a communication approach to conflict prevention and management) in four communities across four states has started. The main objective of the pilot is to assess the workability and possible impact of the SPINN in some few communities before scaling it up to more communities across the North.

List of the Pilot Communities

1. Kawo in Kaduna North LGA of Kaduna state
2.Kpakunuga in Chachaga LGA of Niger state
3. Unguwar Mahaukata in Bauchi LGA of Bauchi state
4. Brigade in Nasarawa LGA of Kano state

20 community members in each of the communities have already been trained to form members of a community peace team that will work to increase the knowledge of fellow community members on negative consequences of violent conflicts and how to prevent them. They will also help plan and organise special peace events in their communities in order to facilitate adoption of positive peace behaviour while also providing reports on early warning signals to their community leaders.  

Now check out some pictures from the community level training (s)

Hassan Alfa of Alfa Care facilitating a session at Kawo community

A cross section of participants at the training session 

Musa Abdullahi, Interim Secretary of C4PS giving a briefing to participants at Kawo

Mr Samson Auta of the Interfaith Mediation Centre having an interactive discussion with Kawo community peace team members