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Members of Peace Channel and others seen here with participants of the training programme, in Peren town on December 8.[/caption]
Dimapur, Dec. 9 (EMN): Peace Channel, in collaboration with Peace Forum, Peren, organised a one- day training of trainers for peace at Peren Town Baptist Church (PTBC) on December 8 on the theme “Transformed to transform the society.”
Facilitating the training, Dr. Deben stated that basic understanding of the word ‘peace’ is essential as foundation to becoming a trainer. He said peace is experienced by all but each may differ in defining it as the changing circumstances and context within which each person as man and woman struggle to find peace may differ. He added that society has also been changing over the years from the traditional systems and structures mainly due to occupational shifts.
“As peace begins with self, we should be able to locate measure and define our own experiences of peace,” he said. Having said that, facilitator asked the participants to measure own level of peace in a scale of 0 to 10 starting from “peace at me and myself to people and government levels.”
Participants worked in small groups of men and women and presented their scales of peace. Participant’s also defined peace from their life experiences and reached a shared understanding of how men and women conceive peace.
Discussions that followed came to the conclusion that listening to women’s voice was essential ingredient for building sustainable peace in the family between husband and wife, parents and children, between neighbours, with other tribes and communities, between different sections of society and between the people and the government.
He further mentioned that definition of peace at different levels would invariably lead to issues that disturb peace and added that as peace trainer one must have the skills to analyse the issues between any two parties, think new ideas creatively to address them that satisfy both the parties restoring or building stronger and better relationships.
At the end, participants expressed their satisfactions in understanding peace in more clearer terms.
Programme coordinator, Chumdemo Odyuo, in his keynote address, explained the objectives of the programme and also how the training would equip them with peace building skills and bring a positive change in the society. Altogether 19 participants from seven different churches and departments attended the training programme.
