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Cooperative Peace Project in Moldova-Pridnestrovie
Posted by Iryna Brunova-Kalisetska on May 10, 09
Moldova-Pridnestrovie Professional Groups Share on the Conflict
by Corina Simon (PATRIR)
http://www.patrir.ro
Republic of Moldova, a small country situated in Eastern Europe, neighboring Romania and Ukraine, is the site of one of the Black Sea region’s protracted conflicts. A violent conflict in 1992 and the creation of a separate, unrecognized state, called the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic, and the lack of settlement in the issue between the involved parties as well as other specific factors has led to present day status quo in the peace process.
The Cooperative Peace Project in Moldova-Pridnestrovie is a project which started in 2006 with the purpose of building foundational capacity, structures and resources to empower civil society in Moldova-Pridnestrovie to actively engage in peace building and conflict transformation work - to address concrete social issues affecting the people of the region.
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This project is implemented by four partner organizations:
• CReDO (Resource Center of Human Rights NGO’s), Chisinau
• Informational Resource Center “World Window”, Tiraspol
• JCDC (Joint Committee for Democratization and Conciliation), Chisinau
• PATRIR (Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania), Cluj-Napoca, Romania (GPPAC member)
One of the activities of the project is to support a comprehensive participatory process to map and analyse the full breadth of needs, perspectives and objectives of civil society actors in the M-P conflict and the successes and challenges of peace work done by civil society in the region until now. Such an initiative is deemed to support civil society as well as decision-makers on both banks of Dniester as well as the international community to see the conflict through the eyes of civil society and explore possible initiatives that would address the problems of the population. The peace process has been primarily driven by the government/authorities. The Cooperative Peace Project supports an enlargement of the spectrum of the peace process, of dialogue and therefore of solutions to include more the civil society as an intermediary/enabler between top level leadership and the population.
In this process were also involved representatives of professional groups: undergraduate teachers, doctors, trade union representatives and attorneys-at-law. Within the space of a two-day workshop facilitated by the resource people of the partner organisations, the participants discussed informally and in focus groups about their professional interests, opportunities for development and difficulties that they face. One focus group involved participants from both banks and the other focus group was made up of participants from the same bank. Also, they discussed about advantages and disadvantages of the professional systems from both banks of the river Nistru/Dnestr and what are the necessities for a good functioning. Some of the questions referred to how the conflict has affected their professional development and their professions’ status.
More particular information may be found on the project’s website http://www.peace-dialogue.org in the CPP Events section.
The results of the workshops will be augmented by three more groups being involved during the course of the year 2009. The overall outcomes and conclusions along with recommendations will be integrated into the more comprehensive Conflict Mapping and Lessons Learned Study – the first-ever such type of study done by civil society in Moldova-Pridnestrovie.
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