Establishment of Peace Committee

With funding from Japanese Embassy in South Sudan in partnership with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Rural Development Action Aid Continues to play a major role in struggle to victims of conflict in South Sudan. We are implementing a project entitle : Promote Capacity Strengthening and empowerment for community led inclusive socio-economic interventions geared towards collaborative inter-dependence and peaceful coexistence between communities. This project is being implemented in Jur River County, Western Bahr-el-Ghazel State 20  beneficiaries in following categories; returnees ex-combatants, internally displaced people people with impairment disabilities and Refugees, and in terms of gender specifically women.

Peace committees are created in order to continue with the project activities even when the project period has expired. There is need for continuation of peace efforts especially by those that need peace more. In the establishment of the peace committees, those elected are selected from among the community leaders who are tasked with the responsibility of resolving community issues to prevent them from escalating into community conflicts or some thing bigger.