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GHANAIAN
APPROACHES TO
INTERVENTION IN AND MANAGEMENT OF LOCAL CONFLICTS
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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:
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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;
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Link
this network into other existing international networks concerned
with conflict research, management and resolution;
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Establish
an international advisory group in Northern Ireland to support the
work of the Ghanaian network;
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Document
existing practices and processes used in intervention in ethnic
conflicts in Ghana and to evaluate them;
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Quantify
any gaps and shortcomings in existing methods and their documentation
for training purposes;
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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;
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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:
- The principles
and aims of conflict intervention in Ghana and in Northern Ireland;
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The
range of methods, approaches and techniques used;
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Detailed
case studies of where and how intervention was made and to what
effect;
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The
relationship between recent interventions and traditional methods
of conflict settlement;
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Documentation
and evaluation of specifically Ghanaian and Northern Ireland approaches
in this field and how they relate to approaches used in other cultures.
Download
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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