I and my colleagues we have established South Kivu as a city of peace. The group has created the “Centre des Jeunes Pour La Paix” to help young children, including 12 000 orphans, former children soldiers, children victims of sexual exploitation, unaccompanied children and children with HIV / AIDS. The group has many activities that help children affected by conflict in five communities , including: Banyamulenge, Bembe, Fuliru, Lega, Tshi, Vira, and others in the South Kivu region.http://www.internationalcitiesofpeace.org/cities/southkivu/southkivu.html
THE CENRE DES JEUNES POUR LA PAIX:
The Centre des Jeunes pour la Paix, City of Peace mission is to help children affected by armed conflict in the post conflict areas in DR Congo to overcome the challenge they face: Including recruitment into armed groups, sexual exploitation, discrimination, social integration, non-schooling, malaria and HIV / AIDS.
The methodologies used are:
- Playdégogie is the support methodology aimed at children 6 to 12 years. At school and in the refugee camps, this approach allows children to learn and grow by practicing sports games. The playdagogiques activities enable them to acquire knowledge by spending and having fun: Knowledge on a dedicated theme (nutrition / obesity, health, discrimination, disability, environment, etc.). The life skills (self-respect, rules, collaboration, etc.). Behavioral reflexes positively affecting their life course or those of their family members.
- Football3 (Football for peace) methodology:
Football adapts the classic game of football to help players apply what they learn in the field to their daily lives.
It is played in mixed teams (3 girls and 3 boys in each team) and incorporates three 'halves' pre-game agreement on the rules and values, a football game, and discussion post-match lessons learned.
In football, points are not only earned by scoring goals, but also through fair play and respect. As it is played without referees, it helps participants strengthen their communication skills and conflict resolution and to take responsibility for their own actions. This game will be modified to include questions about health problems for a goal to be accepted. Play in mixed teams is a different style of addressing gender.
PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES:
a) Championships / tournaments and football festivals for peace
b) International Day of Peace, 21 September
c) Protect and promote psychosocial well-being of children affected by armed conflict in post-conflict villages in the South Kivu region
d) Education of conflict victim children in post-conflict villages
a) Sport for peace in Lusenda Burundians refugees’ camp
SOUTH KIVU REGION: THE CONCEPT OF TERRITORY AND IDENTITY CONFLICTS OF BIRTH
The notion of territory is in most situations confused with the land.
The latter has a limited meaning and implies a much funds, ownership of land belonging to an individual, the land space developed and intended for agricultural production at large. This concept introduces the dimension of private ownership and state ownership. The scientific work that angle facing land disputes in terms of incompatibility of local land agreements or legal pluralism. Instead, we preferred the concept of territory that best explains the conflicts between ethnic groups. The land they argue are located on an inhabited territory, defined and dependent on state or jurisdiction.
This is the state or territory administered by a modern authority and governed by law. This design allows to lift the confusion between state territory and ethnic territory. It existed before colonization and was not well-defined and fixed. Geographically dispersed, ethnic territory was under the authority of a patriarch and was, according to Denis Retaillé, maximum solidarity spaces, exchange, movement and collective identity. This produced the Identity State in the words of Bertrand Badie.
Ethnic identity or territory refers to spaces in which people are the majority, the cradles of the past or spaces where a people is a minority and has the ambition to be connected between different ethnic pockets.
CONCLUSION:
In conclusion, I would like to invite you to join the International City of Peace network to share your peace work in your town or village.http://www.internationalcitiesofpeace.org/
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