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A Peace Message on the Cell Phones
an article by Patrick Mulemeri, Coordinator of the Congo Peace Network
We have the honor to announce that very soon in September, the
Congo Peace Network, will launch its campaign for peace and social
dialogue in local communities for peaceful conflict resolution without
violence.
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To
this end, a telephone message will be broadcast with the theme " A
MESSAGE OF PEACE IN OUR PORTABLES" as an alternative to " BLOOD IN OUR
PORTABLES". This will use equipment coming from the mines in the
zones of the conflict of the Democratic republic of Congo. You may
receive messages in your cellphones calling for the support of peace and
social dialogue to solve the potential conflicts in the local
communities of the province of Nord Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo.
We plan to issue a press release to the attention of all the
partners of the Congo Peace Network, 48 hours before the official launch
of the telephone message. At present we are working on a partnership
with the telecommunication company Vodacom Congo for this purpose.
Congo Peace Network is a non profit organization promoting peace
and peaceful coexistence, which contributes to build sustainable peace
in the respect of human rights in Democratic Republic of the Congo;
through specific programs, such as ‘’the peace and nonviolence school’’.
The peace and nonviolence school is a strategy of the Congo
Peace Network for effective implementation of peaceful civic education.
This program is focused on internal causes of conflict and uses the
educational sector in order to promote the acceptance of diversity.
"Since revenge and hatred are conceived in the human mind, it is in
human mind they must be defeated."
In the 1986 Seville Declaration adopted by scientists around the
world, it is stated that « war is not inevitable, written in the genes.
The spirit of violence is not human nature or instinct, but it is
indeed a social invention. Therefore, « the authors of war are able to
become the authors of peace». This is the motivation of our campaign
and the ultimate goal of the school of peace and nonviolence.
(Click here for a French version of this article)
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Evolution of the Peace Process in the Democratic Republic of Congo
submitted to CPNN in French by Solidarité avec les Victimes et pour la Paix and translated into English by CPNN
For the original article in French, see RDC Solidarite.
From the recent past to today
After
the armed hostilities in 1996 and the fall of Mobutu in May 17, 1997,
there was a period of relative calm for fourteen months. A new rebellion
began on August 2, 1998. Very early, negotiations started in Lusaka
(Zambia) and arrived at the first agreements of ceasefire dated from
July 10, 1999. It was to oversee respect of these agreements of Lusaka
that the Security Council of the United Nations set up its resolution
creating the Observation Mission of the United Nations (MONUC).
It was in October 2006 that the first free elections were organized.
To
establish an account of the situation is difficult, but it is easier to
say that at the present time the effects of armed conflict are still
sad at various levels. There is extreme poverty in the civilian
population. Until the present a responsible solution has not been
found to assure access of children to education.
Good news today
is that the country now has a Constitution, a President of the Republic,
a Parliament and a Senate and provincial assemblies as well as
provincial governments following the democratic elections organized in
2007.. . ...more.
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