Description
Formation of Community of Practice on Business, Development and Peace (in partnership with UNSOM, Rift Valley Institute, and NGO Applied Management Research and Teaching Unit, Aston Business School, Aston University UK).
Duration
June 2018 – October 2020
Funded by:
United Nation Mission for Somalia (UNSOM)
Results:
In June 2018, CAN organised a CoP designed workshop brought together 20 professionals and primary stakeholders, including the MOIFAR to design the CoP management structure, membership and thematic focus which was then submitted to the UNSOM in a proposal.
In January 2019, CAN initiated a process of organising four roundtables around the strategic themes of National reconciliation, the resolution and prevention of local conflicts, the potential for dialogue with Al-Shabaab, and business and development.
In March 2019, CAN and the CoP partnership organised a research workshop to mobilise diverse organizational perspectives on the themes identified by the United Nations’ Colloquium on Peace and Reconciliation and to review the clan-centric and state-centric perspectives on peace building and state formation in Somalia.
In July 2019, the CoP partnership organised an international symposium on “Business, Peace and Development in Somalia: Priorities for Research and Action” in which over 40 national and international organizations, scholars and officials discussed and debated the ways of involving Somali companies in peace building and state formation and considered the relations between women, business and peace.
In August 2020, CAN organized an Online Forum on Peace and Reconciliation, it focused on the new generation of peacebuilders in Somalia. The Forum aimed at to generate information, insights and perspectives that open up the pathway(s) for including next generation peace-builders in the peace and reconciliation processes in Somali regions. The forum brought together over 50 subject experts, practitioners, donors, members of Friends of Reconciliation (FoR), UN/UNDP. Academic institutions, Somalia companies/business. Somali civil society and youth and women groups – it has achieved to open up and facilitated discussion between experts and practitioners on the following three questions: