With funding support from
European Union through HIVOS & RWECO, RIDE AFRICA has been able to reach
out to three Sub Counties and two Town Councils of Ntoroko district.
Using a rights based
approach RIDE AFRICA identified two CBOs from each of the two lower local
governments with a composition of thirty members in each of the groups and
equipped them with skills of identifying an emerging conflict in their local
communities’ analyze and mitigate it.
This has been happily
received by the locals who praised RIDE AFRICA for the timely implementation of
the project. ‘We are Africans, unlike the whites who are very conversant with
what it means to enjoy Human Rights’. Said one of the elders during a meeting
with Kirinya Tweyimukye farmer’s savings and credit group. According to him,
this statement means that we need to look at each as human beings before we can
think of political differences, ethnic cultural rights, geographical
demarcations among others that ignite conflicts in the region.
In the same meeting a female
confessed to have been having issues with her neighbors through under-rating
each other based on tribal differences. She added that, from her heart she was
going to request for pardon from neighbors but also help them understand how
useful and developmental it is if they promote peaceful co-existence instead of
looking at themselves as individuals from different political and ethnic back
grounds.
AN ELDER DISCUSSING THE ODOR OF CONFLICT IN
BWERAMULE- NTOROKO DISTRICT
Compiled by
Margaret K Kabasinguzi
Mugabi
Programs Manager
RIDE AFRICA – Peaceful co-existence
desk.
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