OCTOBER 12, 2020 The Building Blocks for Peace Foundation (BBFORPEACE) welcome the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) unit of the Nigeria Police Force…
8 August 2020 We, the Nigeria Coalition on Youth, Peace and Security, a coalition of over 50 youth-led and youth-focused peacebuilding organisations in Nigeria, welcome…
The United Nations (UN) has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening young people’s participation in conflict prevention and peacebuilding with the adoption of the United Nations…
BBFORPEACE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, RAFIU ADENIRAN LAWAL RE-ELECTED UNOY PEACEBUILDERS ISG REPRESENTATIVE
The United Network of Young Peacebuilders (UNOY) – a global network of over 100 youth-led organizations working on conflict prevention and peacebuilding with headquarters in…
Written by Rafiu Adeniran Lawal, Executive Director, Building Blocks for Peace Foundation On the 2nd March 2020, the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres presented…
20 YEARS OF WARSAW DECLARATION: HOW NIGERIA IS FARING
One of the protracted challenges confronting Africa today is violent conflict. Since the independence of most countries in the region, the continent has been a…
WRITTEN BY RAFIU ADENIRAN LAWAL LAWALRAFIU88@GMAIL.COM As the new decade began, no one would have thought or expected that there would be a time when…
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