Training in Casamance - January 2012
In January 2012, at the initiative of François Verlet for Gandhi International as well as Camille Gomis and Denyse Leleu for Génération Non-violente, in partnership with the Institut Catholique de Paris, a training session on non-violent conflict resolution was organized in January 2012 in Brin, Casamance, around the following theme:
Consolidating peace and rebuilding communities: training the trainers
In January 2012, at the initiative of François Verlet for Gandhi International as well as Camille Gomis and Denyse Leleu for Génération Non-violente, in partnership with the Institut Catholique de Paris, a training session on non-violent conflict resolution was organized in January 2012 in Brin, Casamance, around the following theme:
Consolidating peace and rebuilding communities: training the trainers
The project:
For several years, the association Génération Non-Violente has been raising awareness among the younger generations of Casamance and the region about adopting non-violent behaviors for resolving human conflicts. In light of this experience, it became necessary to structure these initial trainings, now operational, around a reinforced core group.
A qualitative leap could be achieved by "training trainers" benefiting from the support and expertise provided, on the one hand, by practitioners experienced in civil peace intervention techniques and, on the other hand, by academics familiar with peacebuilding issues.
This is the meaning given to the partnership between Génération Non-Violente and the Master's 2 program in Geopolitics and International Security at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences of the Institut Catholique de Paris.
Civil peace intervention is an activity that has been developed for about fifteen years in the Anglo-Saxon environment. Although numerous initiatives exist in Africa, most of the scientific corpus is only accessible in English and not in French. This significantly reduces the local relevance of these methods in non-English-speaking Africa. For this reason, specific training in French will help develop a better understanding of them.