New Peace Mapping Project

In January 2007, the Academy for Peace and Development, Interpeace and their partner organizations started a Peace Mapping Project, which is one of the activities in Phase II of the Dialogue for Peace Programme. The Peace Mapping Project aims to improve understanding of peace initiatives and reconciliation processes that have taken place between 1991 and 1997 in Somaliland. Documenting and analyzing key reconciliation initiatives, observations will be synthesized on particular challenges and factors that have influenced the success of reconciliation processes. This opens the possibility to draw broader lessons from this study which may be replicated elsewhere.

During the preparatory phase of this project, the Academy for Peace and Development (APD) established a research team and drew up a preliminary inventory of peace initiatives in Somaliland. The APD Peace Mapping research team, from April 24-27, participated in a planning workshop in Kigali, Rwanda. The participants of the workshop reviewed the preliminary work undertaken by the research team and developed a work plan for the study.

As the peace mapping research is based on Participatory Action Research (PAR) - a methodology generally employed by Interpeace and its affiliates - a working group was formed to lead and direct the overall activities of the research. The research team and the working group conducted their first meeting on May 27, 2007.

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