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GHANAIAN APPROACHES TO
INTERVENTION IN AND MANAGEMENT OF LOCAL CONFLICTS

This project, which is a partnership between ICR and the Centre for Social Policy Studies at the University of Ghana and funded by OXFAM, aims to document Ghanaian methods of managing and containing violent conflict in a manner that supports the development of training materials based on local indigenous methods.

The goals of the project are to:

  • Establish a Ghanaian network of NGOs and academics to steer the project and continue to work beyond the project period, taking forward work in this field;

  • Link this network into other existing international networks concerned with conflict research, management and resolution;

  • Establish an international advisory group in Northern Ireland to support the work of the Ghanaian network;

  • Document existing practices and processes used in intervention in ethnic conflicts in Ghana and to evaluate them;

  • Quantify any gaps and shortcomings in existing methods and their documentation for training purposes;

  • Review and evaluate materials in comparison to similar work in Northern Ireland relating to conflict in use in other societies divided by conflict, and to participate in international dialogue about developments in mediation and conflict resolution practice with practitioners, NGOs, academics, and government departments from other societies;

  • Organise and/or commission and/or produce texts and training materials that will support training in working with conflict in Ghana, and in Northern Ireland.

The main areas of inquiry, which will be explored in the review of documentation, workshops, case studies and interviews are:

  1. The principles and aims of conflict intervention in Ghana and in Northern Ireland;

  2. The range of methods, approaches and techniques used;

  3. Detailed case studies of where and how intervention was made and to what effect;

  4. The relationship between recent interventions and traditional methods of conflict settlement;

  5. Documentation and evaluation of specifically Ghanaian and Northern Ireland approaches in this field and how they relate to approaches used in other cultures.

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For a more detailed description of this project, you can download the following PDF document and read or print it off at your convenience. Click the link below:

Ghana Project Description (pdf, 23kb)


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