The Office for Strategic Preparedness and Resilience, Institute of Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR), Office for Strategic Preparedness and Resilience,(OSPRE) and Fortress360 LLC/ TriplePeace Africa Initiative have signed a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen partnership on peace building, conflict prevention, and conflict transformation.
The Director-General of the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR),Dr Joseph Ochogwu, during the signing of MOU in Abuja on Friday, said what they are doing with OSPRE, as well as Fortress 360, is to further widen the space of engagement with critical stakeholders.
He further said this is to ensure that we join up our resources in terms of intellectual resources, human resources, material resources, our networking resources to try to achieve what we set to achieve.
Ochogwu explained that one major things the trio would work on going forward after the MoU was the national peace policy which the Nigerian state and citizens need to drive issues around peace building and achieve the necessary results.
Also, the Director-General of OSPRE, also known as the National Center for the Coordination of Early Warning and Response Mechanisms, Chris Ngwodo, said the MoU was apt and brought together stakeholders deeply involved in issues of social enterprise, peace building, development among others.
Also, the Executive Director of Fortress360 LLC/TriplePeace Africa Initiative, Dr Paul Nyulaku-Bemshima explained that the trio signed the MoU on the back of a multi-track approach to dealing with multidimensional issues around peace in Nigeria.
Nyulaku-Bemshima said they have got a team of experts across a range of thematic areas around this work stream and we hope that in the area of research training, particularly some other thematic areas we will bring our expertise to bear in driving this process peace.
Nyulaku-Bemshima explained that with the multi-track approach to peace, it would most likely yield the results and the outcomes really needed.