50 Women Trained On Peace Keeping Skills In Rumbek

Press Clip Source: Gurtong.net 
Date: November 1, 2015
Written by: Mabor Riak Magok
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The Nonviolent Peaceforce South Sudan a non-profit organisation last week trained 50 women on peace keeping in Rumbek Lakes State.

RUMBEK, 30 October 2015 [Gurtong] - The organisation brought together participants from affected communities of Rumbek Centre and Rumbek East Counties.

Addressing the participants during the workshop the Minister of Local Government and Law Enforcement Agency, Samuel Will Machiek urged the women in Pandor to refrains from instigating and inciting violence in their respective communities, saying that the community is losing potential youth for no good reason.

He urged the women to embrace and adopt a culture of peace dialogue or discussion starting from the family level between their husbands and children at home and extend this spirit up to the group level in the Payams and villages where revenge killings and cattle raiding is imminently experienced.

He told the women to deny the youth their daughters hand in marriage if they continue killing and robbing people on the highways.

Machiek argued that when women in the rural areas apply this system within the community, the Youth who are making road ambushes for the purpose of robbing passengers and those killing and raiding cattle under the influence of alcohol will stop engaging in bad habits.

The National Protection Officer of Nonviolent Peace force South Sudan in Lakes State, Zeckariah Gum Ater told the participants to carry on their ambition of campaigning for peace by visiting the cattle camps and villages in and around their location.

He said that there are improvements on some of the great issues and threats caused by Alcohol and random shooting in the remote villages more than before.

He said it is rare now to hear gunshot and that people are experiencing relative calm and peace particularly in Rumbek East County.

Nonviolent Peace force (NP) is a nonpartisan unarmed peacekeeping organization with the goal to protect civilians and reduce violence in areas affected by arms.