The Center for Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding (CECPAP) will today kick off its first of an eight-part series community dialogues, scheduled for 8 counties; namely, Grand Cape Mount, Gbapolu, Lofa, Bong, Nimba, Grand Gedeh, RiverGee, and Maryland.
According to a release from CECPAP, the dialogue forum is being held under the theme: Promoting Peaceful Electoral Environment and Community Security in Liberia. It is geared towards increasing Liberians’ knowledge and awareness level on the recently signed Farmington Declaration by political parties and presidential candidates.
Sinje, Grand Cape Mount County, serves as the venue for the kickoff of the community dialogue forum, which seeks to engage county authorities, community leaderships, local dwellers, and other stakeholders on their civic responsibility to preventing and managing violence as part of their roles and civic responsibilities in promoting a peaceful electoral environment before, during and after elections.
The dialogue forum will create awareness on the maintenance of peace, anti-hate speech, disinformation, misinformation, and vices that fuel conflict and that constitute violation of the 2023 Farmington Declaration.
It is expected that at the end of the community dialogue forum, community leaders and stakeholders in the eight counties are sensitized about commitments contained in the Farmington Declaration and can hold political parties and presidential candidates accountable for their misdeeds.
The participants will also have the skill and ability to prevent violence and resolve issues surrounding electoral violence.
The community dialogue forum is being organized and facilitated by CECPAP, with funding provided by the UN Peacebuilding Fund.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is supervising the implementation of the project.
