People-to-People meeting become important in a world where conflict resolutions tend to be the monopoly of academics, political elites and international institutions, and where macro political urgencies take precedence.
Their approach ignores the impacts of the conflict on local people, their experience, interests and aspirations. The People-to-People Meeting therefore constitutes an alternative to peace for the people who suffered most from the conflicts. Additionally, this program promotes the self-confidence of local people on their own capacity and ability to participate actively in peace building. This latter is a key challenge for the local people and NGOs alike, because conflicts are always complicated by a multiple of political, social, economic, cultural, religious and ethnic interests, while marginalizing local people.
The Program also acts as a forum or media for conflict survivors and NGOs to find peace initiatives and to implement these initiatives in their daily life.
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Daily Life Experince Exchange between Cambodians and Acehnese who are living in forestry community |
Group Picture of Sri Lankans, Cambodians, Acehnese and some of P2P committee |
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Daily Life Experince Exchange between Cambodian and Javanese Migrants in Aceh who most affected by the conflict. |
The communities were the target groups of the P2P program, but everyone involved learned from the program, which include:
| 1. | communities already working with SHEEP, having the knowledge of other people/countries experiencing similar conflict and able to rebuild their lives and cultures |
| 2. | staff of SHEEP/ Khmer Ahimsa/PCA who learned new lessons in community empowerment |
| 3. | local government who realised that people have inherent capacities to rebuild their lives and to interact with other parties. |
| 4. | community/traditional/religious leaders (or scholars) who realised that they had strategic roles in peacebuilding and empowerment. |
Emergency Response Post Earthquake In Yogyakarta and Central Java...
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"Togetherness & hard Work Define Our Future" , People to people exchange Towards Peace building...
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Community Based Rehabilitation on Health and People's Economic after Tsunami and Civil Conflict in East Aceh...
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Water Filter...
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