Africa-Press – Angola. Angola has participated since Friday, in Kinshasa, in the first Regional Biennial for a Culture of Peace, an event organized by the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), in partnership with the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the United Nations Program United Nations for Development (UNDP).
The first edition of the Regional Biennial for a Culture of Peace in Kin-shasa appears, according to the participants, “as an opportunity for policy makers and peace professionals to reassess the design, approach and application of conflict management tools and systems existing in Central Africa”.
In his speech, Ambassador Sita José, coordinator of the National Management Committee of the Bienal de Luanda, referred to the history of the institutionalization by the African Union of the Pan-African Forum for the Culture of Peace and Non-Violence, through decision 558/XXIV, in January 2015.
He recalled the Bienal’s main objective, which is to promote the prevention of violence and the peaceful resolution of conflicts, through a multi-stakeholder continental campaign, reinforced by the adhesion of the Global Alliance of Partners for the Promotion of a Culture of Peace at the end of the 2nd edition, which took place in Luanda, from 27 to 30 November 2021.
Ambassador Sita José highlighted the importance of African youth participation, who committed to actively participate, based on the specific roadmap for the period 2021 to 2023.
The president of ECCAS, Gilberto da Piedade Veríssimo, emphasized that the Bienal aims to examine the place of culture in the region’s peace and security architecture, as well as to propose the constituent pillars of a multisectoral roadmap to silence the guns in Central Africa.
The Angolan delegation is headed by ambassador Sita José and includes professor José Octávio Serra Van-Dúnem, member of the Scientific Committee of the National Committee of the Luanda Biennial, among other officials.
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