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Sunday Mogga, Executive Director of the Grassroots Women’s Network, reiterated the role played by women, youths and persons with disabilities in ensuring peace in their communities.
Moga, speaking to the media at the opening of a one-day workshop in Juba on Tuesday, stressed the need for sustained engagement of all groups in peacebuilding and dialogue.
The workshop brought together 35 group leaders, including various religious leaders.
“What we are doing here today is peace and dialogue. We want to discuss this issue at the community level,” Sandy said.
She added that the event also aims to equip participants with mediation and counselling skills.
“It’s all about giving them mediation and counselling skills and learning how to deal with community conflict,” she said.
Sandy pointed out that South Sudan urgently needs peace and that the grassroots people are best equipped to foster peace.
“These are our permanent members. Let us use this time to empower them with conflict resolution because everyone in South Sudan needs peace. So this knowledge can help them identify those who are stressed and have problems,” she noted.
“We have community leaders here, including the leader of Munuki Block B, so they know how to resolve the problem. The conflict will not resolve itself, but the people will resolve it,” she stressed.
Patrick Sebit, representative of the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Welfare, reiterated the important role of women in society, especially during the current economic crisis.
He said women represented the family in welfare matters and were therefore best placed to broker peace.
“In the current crisis, it is women who are handling the problems of the families. They are in the markets and other places. I want to commend this initiative by the grassroots women’s network,” added Sebit.
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