The Africa Centre for Peace Building-Ghana, Global Educators for All Initiatives-Nigeria, The Emmanuel Ivogba Foundation and United Religions Initiatives -West Africa and their partners wish to announce the 1st West Africa Peace Dialogue on the theme “Sustaining Regional Peace To Promote Trade, Investment and Development in West Africa” scheduled for September 20-21, 2019 at the University of Professional Studies, Accra-Ghana.
Background:
Peaceful co-existence among neighboring nations is a key element to promoting trade, investment and human capital development which lead to solving some basic social problems like unemployment, poverty and hunger. These social problems are an influential undertone to conflict and civil unrest. Adherence to national laws without key references to regional laws and treaties signed by states within a region could form a basis for regional conflicts hence defeating the common goals for establishing regional blocs in Africa.
In recent times, Africa is experiencing a new trend of conflict – homophobic attacks. The most recent is Ghana and Nigeria and this development if not curb will become a serious threat to Africa Unity.
Against this the Africa Centre for Peace Building-Ghana, Global Educators for All Initiatives-Nigeria, Universal Peace Federation-Nigeria, The Emmanuel Ivorgba Foundation and United Religions Initiatives -West Africa bring together West Africa governments, media, legal practitioners, academic and civil society organizations within the West Africa Sub-regions to dialogue on how best to promote sisterhood, peace and trade within the West Africa.
THEME: Sustaining Regional Peace To Promote Trade, Investment and Development in West Africa
The Conference will have four sections:
- Keynote Addresses
- Panel Discussions where speakers and high personalities will be assembled from the business community, law, media, academia and governments to discuss specific areas. This will have the opportunity for participants to interact with the speakers and panelists on the issues.
The conference objectives:
- To provide a common platform for a peaceful dialogue for the West Africa region
- To help provide a solution to potential conflicts situation in the region.
- To provide a bigger platform for networking
- To provide a platform for Regional trade and investment
To register: Follow this link http://afcopb.org/events/wapd
Contacts: Cell/WhatApp – +233249155003 / email: – conference@afcopb.org