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Welcome! Tariq Mehmood Chaudhry
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- What motivated you to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?
- I have been working as peace activist for the last 12 years and always searching for new opportunities helful for peace promotion, that's why I want to become involved in peace and conflict resolution program as it is the need of modern age and path for sustainable development
- Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself (no more than 3 paragraphs)
- I did his post graduation in Rural Sociology with specialization in Rural Development from University of Agriculture Faisalabad - Pakistan in 2004 as well as obtained diploma in Community Development from the same University. Presently, I am working as Project Manager from July 2006 with an energetic & potentially sound NGO working in Pakistan namely Pakistan Rural Workers Social Welfare Organization (PRWSWO) on a project entitled “Combating Child Trafficking those Employed as Camel Jockeys in the Gulf States”. Prior to that, I have worked on different development projects like Youth for Peace and Culture, Punjab Rural Support Program and Woman’s Reproductive Health Care Program (A project co funded by UNFPA and European Union). I am also founder of an NGO named Farmers Development Organization and implemented many projects for community empowerment through organizing farming community, peace promotion through social and interfaith harmony, good governance, women empowerment, human rights education .
- Please list the countries and/or regions in which you have direct and significant expertise
- Pakistan
Networking in Germany, Austria, Japan, Nepal, India, Philippines and USA.
- What is your current country of residence?
- Pakistan
- What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?
- Presently, I am working as Project Manager from July 2006 with an energetic & potentially sound NGO working in Pakistan namely Pakistan Rural Workers Social Welfare Organization (PRWSWO) on a project entitled “Combating Child Trafficking those Employed as Camel Jockeys in the Gulf States” funded by Groupe Development France
- What is your personal or organizational website?
- http://under construction
- What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)
- http://www.seedsoftolerance.org
- What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)
- http://www.seedsofpeace.org
- Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise?
- Peacebuilding, Conflict Resolution, Development, Humanitarian Relief, Youth, Civil Society, Organizational Development
- Which are your primary skills areas?
- Training, Program Design, Program Administration, Advocacy, Intervention, Research
- What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?
- Human tarfficking with special focus on child trafficking
Peacebuilding through interfaith harmony
- If appropriate feel free to list several of your publications
- Our hearts beat the same song( I am one of authors team)
I have published my reasearch papers in different journals and no other regular publication
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How are you
Tariq
what is going now aday
God bless
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Musa
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I am going to have meeting with some activists from different NGOs in Aceh. The meeting is for building women's network in peace building in Aceh. There will 30 participants attending the meeting.
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Tabrani Yunis
thank you so very much indeed for this. It is most generous of you.
I'm sure something very constructive will come from all this. I look forward very much to the responses from all these groups.
Warmest wishes to you and Pakistan,
Chris
thank you so very much for this.
I know you are very busy and this is so very much appreciated.
It will be wonderful if they contact us. I will keep you up to date with any responses.
We will let you know as and when we plan to visit Pakistan, but so far we have no international visits planned - we have so much to do working online! Will be exciting when the day comes for us to actually work on location, more at the grass roots. Thank you so much for your invitation.
Warmest wishes
Chris
East Congo — Need for Reconciliation Bridge-Builders
Rene Wadlow
On bridges are stated the limits in tons
of the loads they can bear.
But I’ve never yet found one that can bear more
than we do.
Although we are not made of roman freestone,
nor of steel, nor of concrete.
From “Bridges” – Ondra Lysohorsky
Translated from the Lachian by Davis Gill.
Violence is growing in the eastern areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo, basically the administrative provinces of North and South Kivu. The violence could spread to the rest of the country as Angolan troops may come to the aid of the Central Government as they have in the past while Rwandan and Ugandan troops are said to be helping the opposing militia led by Laurent Nkunda. While Nkunda and his Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP) say that they are only protecting the ethnic Tutsi living in Congo, Nkunda could emerge as a national opposition figure to President Joseph Kabila, who has little progress to show from his years in power.
There is high-level recognition that violence in Congo could spread, having a destabilizing impact on the whole region. UN diplomats, led by Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, have stressed that a political solution — not a military one — is the only way to end the violence, and they are urging the presidents of Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, Kenya and Tanzania to work together to restore stability. The instability, along with Congo’s vast mineral and timber riches have drawn in neighboring armies who have joined local insurgencies as well as local commanders of the national army to exploit the mines and to keep mine workers in near-slavery conditions.
The United Nations has some 17,000 peacemakers in Congo (MONUC), the UN’s largest peacekeeping mission, but their capacity is stretched to the limit. Recently, the General in command of the UN forces, Lieutenant General Vicent Diaz de Villegas of Spain resigned his post after seven weeks — an impossible task. Their mission is to protect civilians, some 250,000 of which have been driven from their homes since the fighting intensified in late August 2008. The camps where displaced persons have been living have been attacked both by government and rebel forces — looting, raping, and burning. UN under-secretary general for peacekeeping, Alain Le Roy, is asking for an additional 3,000 soldiers, but it is not clear which states may propose troops for a very difficult mission. While MONUC has proven effective at securing peace in the Ituri district in north-eastern Congo, it has been much less successful in the two Kivu provinces.
The eastern area of Congo is the scene of fighting at least since 1998 — in part as a result of the genocide in neighboring Rwanda in 1994. In mid-1994, more than one million Rwandan Hutu refugees poured into the Kivus, fleeing the advance of the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front, now become the government of Rwanda. Many of these Hutu were still armed, among them, the “genocidaire” who a couple of months before had led the killings of some 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu in Rwanda. They continued to kill Tutsi living in the Congo, many of whom had migrated there in the 18th century.
The people in eastern Congo have lived together for many centuries and had developed techniques of conflict resolution, especially between the two chief agricultural lifestyles: that of agriculture and cattle herding. However, the influx of a large number of Hutu, local political considerations, a desire to control the wealth of the area — rich in gold, tin and tropical timber — all these factors have overburdened the local techniques of conflict resolution and have opened the door to new, negative forces interested only in making money and gaining political power.
UN peace-keeping troops are effective when there is peace to keep. What is required today in eastern Congo is not so much more soldiers under UN command, than reconciliation bridge-builders, persons who are able to restore relations among the ethnic groups of the area. The United Nations, national governments, and non-governmental organizations need to develop bridge-building teams who can help to strengthen local efforts at conflict resolution and re-establishing community relations. In the Kivus, many of the problems arise from land tenure issues. With the large number of people displaced and villages destroyed, it may be possible to review completely land tenure and land use issues.
World citizens were among those in the early 1950s who stressed the need to create UN peace-keeping forces with soldiers especially trained for such a task. Today, a new type of world civil servant is needed — those who in areas of tension and conflict can undertake the slow but important task of restoring confidence among peoples in conflict, establishing contacts and looking for ways to build upon common interests.
Rene Wadlow, Representative to the United Nations, Geneva, Association of World Citizens
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