• Organising training courses on insider mediation
• Development of training methodologies
• Training of upcoming insider mediators

UAC, UNDP, Regional Economic Communities Consultation Process

• African Union Commission – Peace and Security Development
• An African Peace and Security Architecture
• ECOWAS – ACCRA declaration on strengthening national regional and continental coordination
• SADC – Maseru declaration on a framework for peaceful development
• Finding complementary opportunities for cooperative partnership-building

Direct support to mediation processes

• Utilising members of the platform to provide timely support
• Sustaining a resource group of skilled mediators
• Analysing the context and conflict dynamics in support of these processes

Partnership building

• Complementary support to Track 1 mediative processes
• Building partnerships in support of national and local capacities for mediation and national peace architectures that are coherent, credible, and complementary
• Working closely with UNDP, the African Union Commission, including the Panel of the Wise and the Regional Economic Communities in support of the African Peace and Security Architecture
• Networking, identifying complementarities with all key stakeholders

IMPERATIVES

• Coordination and cooperative partnership building, building new complementarities
• Harmonising formal and informal, contemporary, and traditional approaches
• Interconnections between initiatives, complementing not competing
• Access to, support for, and recognition from AU and REC levels, and UNDP Country Offices and Regional Centres

 

INSIGHTS, CHALLENGES AND LESSONS LEARNED

• The disconnect between regional level, national level, and local level processes undermines the effectiveness of efforts at all levels
• Multi-level multi-stakeholder approaches that link short-term rapid responses to longer term processes are more likely to achieve sustainable outcomes
• Local level processes need to be recognised, valued and supported, but can also easily be taken over and overwhelmed or undermined
• Mediative processes include diverse forms of trust, confidence building, learning and training that create space for dialogue and cooperative problem-solving

 

ADDITIONAL INSIGHTS

• Enhancing mediation capacity is more than training and deploying skilled mediators – it includes embedding a meditative approach into all forms of engagement in society and nurturing a culture of dialogue and collaborative problem solving
• Support aimed at building mediation capacity should strengthen what is already there, and be linked to existing systems and institutions if it is to be sustainable
• The ‘projectisation’ of meditative efforts and capacity-building support, dependent on external funding undermines long-term sustainability  
• Systemic and structural efforts to enhance mediation capacity could include an information gathering and sharing component, as well as the ability to respond
• A legal foundation can underpin and strengthen efforts to use dialogue and mediation as dispute resolution processes  
• The media and the private sector are key stakeholders with whom more work could be done to bring them into processes and utilise the support they have to offer

SUMMARY OF OPPORTUNITIES

• AIMP as a CAPACITY MULTIPLIER
• AIMP as a catalyst for

COLLABORATIVE INCLUSIVE COALITIONS

More effective African peace and Security Architecture strengthening appropriate integrated systems responses to shifting forms of emerging conflict. 

• The democratisation process
• Regional harmonisation
• Economic growth and growing inequality
• Youth majority and related volatility
• Land grabbing, resource extraction, food price increases and climate change
• Ethnicity and related tensions on the rise
• Shifts in global power balance, external manipulation, and the rise of African solutions

 

 

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• Knowledge and experience sharing
• Dissemination of case studies
• Online portal development
• Regular meetings of practising mediators at regional and continental levels

Training and capacity building

• Organising training courses on insider mediation
• Development of training methodologies
• Training of upcoming insider mediators

UAC, UNDP, Regional Economic Communities Consultation Process

• African Union Commission – Peace and Security Development
• An African Peace and Security Architecture
• ECOWAS – ACCRA declaration on strengthening national regional and continental coordination
• SADC – Maseru declaration on a framework for peaceful development
• Finding complementary opportunities for cooperative partnership-building

Direct support to mediation processes

• Utilising members of the platform to provide timely support
• Sustaining a resource group of skilled mediators
• Analysing the context and conflict dynamics in support of these processes

Partnership building

• Complementary support to Track 1 mediative processes
• Building partnerships in support of national and local capacities for mediation and national peace architectures that are coherent, credible, and complementary
• Working closely with UNDP, the African Union Commission, including the Panel of the Wise and the Regional Economic Communities in support of the African Peace and Security Architecture
• Networking, identifying complementarities with all key stakeholders

IMPERATIVES

• Coordination and cooperative partnership building, building new complementarities
• Harmonising formal and informal, contemporary, and traditional approaches
• Interconnections between initiatives, complementing not competing
• Access to, support for, and recognition from AU and REC levels, and UNDP Country Offices and Regional Centres

 

INSIGHTS, CHALLENGES AND LESSONS LEARNED

• The disconnect between regional level, national level, and local level processes undermines the effectiveness of efforts at all levels
• Multi-level multi-stakeholder approaches that link short-term rapid responses to longer term processes are more likely to achieve sustainable outcomes
• Local level processes need to be recognised, valued and supported, but can also easily be taken over and overwhelmed or undermined
• Mediative processes include diverse forms of trust, confidence building, learning and training that create space for dialogue and cooperative problem-solving

 

ADDITIONAL INSIGHTS

• Enhancing mediation capacity is more than training and deploying skilled mediators – it includes embedding a meditative approach into all forms of engagement in society and nurturing a culture of dialogue and collaborative problem solving
• Support aimed at building mediation capacity should strengthen what is already there, and be linked to existing systems and institutions if it is to be sustainable
• The ‘projectisation’ of meditative efforts and capacity-building support, dependent on external funding undermines long-term sustainability  
• Systemic and structural efforts to enhance mediation capacity could include an information gathering and sharing component, as well as the ability to respond
• A legal foundation can underpin and strengthen efforts to use dialogue and mediation as dispute resolution processes  
• The media and the private sector are key stakeholders with whom more work could be done to bring them into processes and utilise the support they have to offer

SUMMARY OF OPPORTUNITIES

• AIMP as a CAPACITY MULTIPLIER
• AIMP as a catalyst for

COLLABORATIVE INCLUSIVE COALITIONS

More effective African peace and Security Architecture strengthening appropriate integrated systems responses to shifting forms of emerging conflict. 

• The democratisation process
• Regional harmonisation
• Economic growth and growing inequality
• Youth majority and related volatility
• Land grabbing, resource extraction, food price increases and climate change
• Ethnicity and related tensions on the rise
• Shifts in global power balance, external manipulation, and the rise of African solutions

 

 

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• Forge and maintain linkages
• Expand training and learning opportunities
• Connect mediation efforts at different levels
• Local analysis and support to the deployment of Track l mediation teams
• Provide a pool of skilled resource people

 

ACTIVITY AREAS

Community of Practice

• Knowledge and experience sharing
• Dissemination of case studies
• Online portal development
• Regular meetings of practising mediators at regional and continental levels

Training and capacity building

• Organising training courses on insider mediation
• Development of training methodologies
• Training of upcoming insider mediators

UAC, UNDP, Regional Economic Communities Consultation Process

• African Union Commission – Peace and Security Development
• An African Peace and Security Architecture
• ECOWAS – ACCRA declaration on strengthening national regional and continental coordination
• SADC – Maseru declaration on a framework for peaceful development
• Finding complementary opportunities for cooperative partnership-building

Direct support to mediation processes

• Utilising members of the platform to provide timely support
• Sustaining a resource group of skilled mediators
• Analysing the context and conflict dynamics in support of these processes

Partnership building

• Complementary support to Track 1 mediative processes
• Building partnerships in support of national and local capacities for mediation and national peace architectures that are coherent, credible, and complementary
• Working closely with UNDP, the African Union Commission, including the Panel of the Wise and the Regional Economic Communities in support of the African Peace and Security Architecture
• Networking, identifying complementarities with all key stakeholders

IMPERATIVES

• Coordination and cooperative partnership building, building new complementarities
• Harmonising formal and informal, contemporary, and traditional approaches
• Interconnections between initiatives, complementing not competing
• Access to, support for, and recognition from AU and REC levels, and UNDP Country Offices and Regional Centres

 

INSIGHTS, CHALLENGES AND LESSONS LEARNED

• The disconnect between regional level, national level, and local level processes undermines the effectiveness of efforts at all levels
• Multi-level multi-stakeholder approaches that link short-term rapid responses to longer term processes are more likely to achieve sustainable outcomes
• Local level processes need to be recognised, valued and supported, but can also easily be taken over and overwhelmed or undermined
• Mediative processes include diverse forms of trust, confidence building, learning and training that create space for dialogue and cooperative problem-solving

 

ADDITIONAL INSIGHTS

• Enhancing mediation capacity is more than training and deploying skilled mediators – it includes embedding a meditative approach into all forms of engagement in society and nurturing a culture of dialogue and collaborative problem solving
• Support aimed at building mediation capacity should strengthen what is already there, and be linked to existing systems and institutions if it is to be sustainable
• The ‘projectisation’ of meditative efforts and capacity-building support, dependent on external funding undermines long-term sustainability  
• Systemic and structural efforts to enhance mediation capacity could include an information gathering and sharing component, as well as the ability to respond
• A legal foundation can underpin and strengthen efforts to use dialogue and mediation as dispute resolution processes  
• The media and the private sector are key stakeholders with whom more work could be done to bring them into processes and utilise the support they have to offer

SUMMARY OF OPPORTUNITIES

• AIMP as a CAPACITY MULTIPLIER
• AIMP as a catalyst for

COLLABORATIVE INCLUSIVE COALITIONS

More effective African peace and Security Architecture strengthening appropriate integrated systems responses to shifting forms of emerging conflict. 

• The democratisation process
• Regional harmonisation
• Economic growth and growing inequality
• Youth majority and related volatility
• Land grabbing, resource extraction, food price increases and climate change
• Ethnicity and related tensions on the rise
• Shifts in global power balance, external manipulation, and the rise of African solutions

 

 

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