Building sustainable peace : conflict, conciliation and civil society in Northern Ghana / Ada van der Linde and Rachel Naylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Linde, Ada van der.

Contributor:

Naylor, Rachel.

Series:

Oxfam working paper

An Oxfam working paper

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Non-governmental organizations.

Ghana--History--1957-.

Ghana.

History.

Non-governmental organizations--Ghana.

Peace.

Physical Description:

68 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxfam ; Herndon, VA : [Distributor] for the USA, Stylus Pub., 1999.

Summary:

Intense fighting in the Northern Region of Ghana in 1994 and 1995 led to the loss of 15,000 lives and the displacement of 200,000 people. A formal peace treaty, negotiated by the government, ended the fighting but did not address the underlying causes of the conflict, which was a complex mix of economic, political, and ethnic factors. An informal consortium of NGOs, initially involved in delivering humanitarian aid, set up a parallel peace process, seeking to build up trust through a series of peace-education workshops and the creation of a multi-ethnic Youth and Development Association. The success of the process was symbolized by the signing of the Kumasi Peace Accord in 1996. This report, commissioned by the Northern Ghana Inter-NGO Consortium, demonstrates how a network of NGOs, sharing skills and building up local capacities, can play an invaluable role in promoting a sustainable peace after conflict.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 66-68).

ISBN:

0855984236

OCLC:

41466532