The Kujenga Amani Pamoja project, which translates as ‘building peace together’, works in the Swahili Coast regions of Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique. The project aims to support youth-led networks and organisations to actively practice and disseminate learning on peacebuilding and conflict prevention. It looks particularly at the ways in which young men and women can support peacebuilding and inclusion through cultural practices. The project takes place in a region that experiences high levels of youth unemployment and young people’s political marginalisation, creating grievances that are easily manipulated by violent extremist groups.
The project is a collaboration between WeWorld-GVC, 4H Tanzania and TABUFO in Tanzania, Stretchers Youth Organisation in Kenya, Conselho Nacional do Voluntariado in Mozambique, and Peaceful Change initiative. PCi’s role within the project is to develop the project’s conflict analysis and conflict sensitivity interactions matrix and support the project team to continually monitor and adapt project activities to ensure conflict sensitivity. PCi is also working in collaboration with The University of Dar es Salaam, the Horn International Institute for Strategic Studies in Kenya, and the Universidade Lurio in Mozambique to produce research looking at the intersection of youth, culture and peacebuilding, and existing cultural practices and resources that contribute to local peace.
Along the Swahili Coast, natural disasters, ongoing political conflicts, violent extremism and the political and economic exclusion faced by young people have caused deteriorating economic and social conditions. Left unchecked, these interconnected issues have the potential to undermine peace and stability in the region.
This project is funded by the European Union.
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