{"id":468,"date":"2021-12-03T18:23:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T18:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/?p=468"},"modified":"2021-12-03T18:23:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T18:23:27","slug":"bbforpeace-host-africa-regional-leaders-of-unoy-peacebuilders-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/2021\/12\/03\/bbforpeace-host-africa-regional-leaders-of-unoy-peacebuilders-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"BBFORPEACE HOST AFRICA REGIONAL LEADERS OF UNOY PEACEBUILDERS IN NIGERIA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During the week of November 8<sup>th<\/sup>-13<sup>th\n&nbsp;<\/sup>2021, Building Blocks for Peace\nFoundation was privileged to have hosted the Regional Leaders of the United\nNetwork of Young Peacebuilders in Africa. The delegation included, the ISG\nRepresentative from West and Central Africa, the Regional Coordinator of the\nEast and Southern Africa and the ISG Representative of East and Southern\nAfrica. The network young leaders came from Cameroon, Burundi, Zimbabwe respectively\nto attend the Annual Strategic Meeting of UNOY Peacebuilders in Abuja, Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Annually, regional leaders of\nUNOY meets to brainstorm on the next strategic development of the network\nincluding membership, annual plans and governance structure. Other leaders of\nthe network outside of Africa gathered in Asia and Europe for the same purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Building Blocks for Peace Foundation currently hosts the regional coordination structure of UNOY Peacebuilders in West and Central Africa with her Executive Director acting as the Regional Coordinator of the network in West and Central Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG-20211108-WA0021-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-470\" width=\"572\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG-20211108-WA0021-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG-20211108-WA0021-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG-20211108-WA0021-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG-20211108-WA0021.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><figcaption>During the strategic brainstorming of the leaders in Abuja<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of their visit, the\nleaders also visited also peace and security partners in Abuja including the office\nof the United Nations Development Programme-Nigeria, the GivTree Foundation and\nthe West African Civil Society Forum among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting came to an end on the\n13<sup>th<\/sup> November as the youth activist departed to their various destinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Written by<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BBFORPEACE Media Team &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the week of November 8th-13th &nbsp;2021, Building Blocks for Peace Foundation was privileged to have hosted the Regional Leaders of the United Network of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,17,39,8,7],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bbforpeace","tag-peacebuilding","tag-unoy","tag-unscr2250","tag-youth4peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","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=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}