A two-day reconciliation dialogue session organized by the Center for Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding (CECPAP) has ended in Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County.
The reconciliation dialogue is being organized and facilitated by CECPAP with funding provided by the UN Peacebuilding Fund.
The UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) is also supervising the implementation of the project which witnessed participants being resolved to work for peace and unity in their various places of work, worship centers, schools, and communities.
According to a dispatch from Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County, the reconciliation dialogue session was held under the theme: A Reconciled Society for A Sustainable Growth.
The dialogue session brought together 25 participants drawn from the religious and disable communities, women and youth groups, representatives from parties involved in the recent violent act that led to the destruction of properties, including the home of Senator Zoe Emmanuel Pennon, in Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County.
CECPAP’s reconciliation dialogue session is expected to reach to areas identified by the Peace Building Office (PBO) as hotspots during the 2023 presidential and legislative elections.
The areas are Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County, Zuo-Zualay, Nimba County, Bellefani, Bong County, Foya, Lofa County, and Porkpa, Grand Cape Mount County.
During the two-day session held in Zwedru, participants deliberated on issues they see befitting to the growth of their city and its people.
One of the issues, according to the participants that is mostly important to them, is for the dwellers of Zwedru City to reunite for the sole purpose of moving their city and county forward in all aspects of life.
The representatives of the two opposing parties in the recent Zwedru violent act resolved to put behind them the conflict and reunite for the growth of their city.
To enhance the reconciliation process in Zwedru, the two parties and other participants called on their Senator Emmanuel Zoe Pennon to intervene in the case by releasing from further detention their colleagues that were arrested by the Liberia National Police and later sent to incarceration by the court.
The participants said Senator Pennon’s intervention in the release of their colleagues from detention is very much important as it will further speed up the reconciliation process; stressing that the act of reconciliation taking place in Zwedru is paramount and can never over emphasized.
Meanwhile, the second phase of CECPAP’s dialogue starts today in Zuo-Zualay, Nimba County with 25 participants coming together to discuss the importance of reconciliation and unity in their communities.
