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Peru: Thirty Community Leaders Trained in Culture of Peace
un articulo por Janett Villantoy Valverde, Diario la Voz de Huamanga
To promote a culture of peace and care for vulnerable populations, the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations and the District Municipality of Chungui in the province of La Mar, organized the first capacity-building workshop on culture of peace. The workshop was aimed at leaders and authorities and the population affected by political violence of the communities known as "Ear of the Dog" in the district located in the Valle de los Rios Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro.
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The activity was led by Dr. Marcelino Castillo a facilitator from the Ministry who addressed issues of capacity-building for a culture of peace, including gender equality, human rights, conflict resolution, to improve the quality of life for residents of Chungui district.
For his part, Daniel Huaman Juarez Chungui, district mayor, thanked the Ministry and the Directorate for the Promotion of Culture of Peace, to develop this activity in which 38 officials and community leaders took part. He urged regional and central government to put more resources into the execution of public works that can help overcome extreme poverty.
Background information:
1. - Chungui, with its 46 communities, is the most affected district in the country for subversive violence, according to the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), for which reason it was included within the Strategy Intervention Plan VRAE approved by Supreme Decree No. 003-2007 of February 22, 2007.
2. - Chungui has seen 4,795 victims of violence, including 1.776 citizens dead and missing, 83 public authorities dead and missing, and 125 grassroots organizations fragmented, according to the five stages of the Census for Peace, Registery of victims.
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Nonviolence is at its best when violence is at its worst, Do you agree?
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Bernard Lafayette, Director of the Center for Peace and Nonviolence at the University of Rhode Island shared with us the following observation, based on his years of working with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his recent work in Colombia, helping to organize leadership teams in nonviolence:
"Nonviolence is at its best when violence is at its worst".
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