in Quantity Surveying with intense passion for sustainable development.
Since 2010, I have been working in the community development sector that
centers on peace building missions. During these years, I co- founded a
maternity center in Nigeria to combat increased maternal mortality. Also, I
volunteered to develop community women and entrepreneurs and a focal person for
an international conflict resolving Organization-Search for Common Ground
(SFCG), where we focused on conflict transformational processes. Currently, I
am a Program Director for Gwise Constructive Peace Initiatives-(GCPI), where I
focus on initiating, designing, and implementing peace building activities in
conflict-affected communities. I am also a global youth Ambassador for “A world
at school” where am focusing on gender discrimination within the education
sector. My choice of work is driven by intense commitment to sustainable
development and particularly fascinated by conflict transformational processes
in Africa. Indoctrination of Youth into Violent groups is a pressing public
problem in many communities in Nigeria. Over one-third of Nigeria’s population
of 170 million are young people (18-35 years old), and a large number are
unemployed and out of school, making them particularly vulnerable targets for
extremist recruiters. Frustration with employment, education, and opportunities
for political participation has created ripe conditions for hate preachers to
target the youth for radicalization to violent groups. My community is also
facing this problem where radicalization drives exploit existing fissures
including relative deprivation, high unemployment, and lack of education among
the youths. Through my initiative "Gwise Constructive peace initiatives”,
a peace building initiative, we have strengthened resilience, social cohesion,
inclusion, and human security in vulnerable communities. In 2014, I created the
first Community Quality Improvement Team (CQIT), comprising of 30 community
women, traditional rulers, and youths and were trained on Alternative dispute
resolution methods which induced a stronger communication and
intra-relationship. Currently we have 120 "CQIT” who are helping to
resolve conflict issues /doubts and expel negative rumors and misconceptions as
well as, some of the wrong notions and beliefs held by most community members.
This have increased their knowledge in order to support and sustain the peace
groups we have established in their formal and non-formal education centers.
This issue is important to me because I believe that peace is a major pillar
for sustainable development. Therefore, preventing youth indoctrination and
recruitment into violent groups and encouraging transformational conflict
progress is very significant.
Contact:
+2348131089714
Email:
constructivepeaceinitiatives@gmail.com
Blog:
https://gwiseconstructivepeaceinitiative.blogspot.com.ng/
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