{"id":452,"date":"2021-08-22T16:25:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T16:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/?p=452"},"modified":"2021-08-22T16:55:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T16:55:48","slug":"bbforpeace-wins-award-as-the-best-young-peacebuilding-organisation-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/2021\/08\/22\/bbforpeace-wins-award-as-the-best-young-peacebuilding-organisation-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"BBFORPEACE WINS AWARD AS &#8221;THE BEST YOUNG PEACEBUILDING ORGANISATION IN NIGERIA&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Building Blocks for Peace Foundation (BBFORPEACE) has been named as the \u2018\u20182020\/2021 Best Young Peacebuilding Organisation in Nigeria\u2019\u2019 by the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding-Nigeria at the 2021 General Assembly of WANEP which held on the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> June 2021 in Abuja, Nigeria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award was given for the outstanding contributions of BBFORPEACE to mobilizing and empowering young people for peace across Nigeria and championing the domestication of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2250 and the African Union Continental Framework on Youth, Peace and Security in the country. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DSC5085-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DSC5085-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DSC5085-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DSC5085-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DSC5085-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DSC5085-2048x1367.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Participants at the 2021 General Assembly of WANEP Nigeria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Building Blocks for Peace foundation is a network of young\npeople working on conflict prevention, peacebuilding, accountability governance\nand sustainability development in Nigeria. The network has been building the\nresilience of young people in Nigeria against violent philosophies through innovative\napproaches such as peer to peer engagement, peace education, policy advocacy, research,\nreward system, empowerment and media programming. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Executive Director of the organisation who received the\naward on behalf of the youth network at the ceremony commended the organisers of\nthe award for the recognition bestowed on BBFORPEACE and promised that the organisation\nwill do more in ensuring that young people continue to meaningfully contribute\nto the peace and development trajectory of Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Written by<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anthonia Folashade<br>Program Officer, Building Blocks for Peace  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building Blocks for Peace Foundation (BBFORPEACE) has been named as the \u2018\u20182020\/2021 Best Young Peacebuilding Organisation in Nigeria\u2019\u2019 by the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding-Nigeria&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[66,23,11,8,7],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-as-in-media","tag-agenda2030","tag-buildingblocksforpeace","tag-nigeria","tag-unscr2250","tag-youth4peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}