A people-oriented peace conference on the insecurity in Jonglei State and Pibor Administrative Area has entered day two in Juba.
Run under the theme, ‘Together for Peace, Reconciliation and Peaceful Co-Existence’, the conference aims to bring about transformational behaviours in order to build peace, stability and resilience in the regions.
In this regard, actors seek to unravel and solve the causes of conflicts in Jonglei and Pibor Administrative area to achieve social cohesion.
“The conference is an overall goal and the objectives to be addressed by the ramped brutal and violent killing of innocent civilians and abduction of children is on top of these,” said the Chairperson of Organizating Committee Daniel Awet Akot
Addressing the conference on Monday, January 25, when it kicked off, Akot advised the delegates to brainstorm as they attend the conference in order to save their own communities.
“In Jonglei and Pibor Administrative area there are increasing levels of brutality accompanied by more radical criminal discourse, where cattle raiding has been [increased] by politicized inter communal conflict,”Akot stated.
Jonglei team leader Dr. Abraham Kuol Nyuon suggested that the peace conference could also focus on stabilising needs and assessment such recoveries on socio economic development.
A committee member Philip Agure empahsised urged the national government not to become complacent over the matter but to continue supporting the peace initiatives.
“We believe the involvement of the national government is important, because without any government’s intervention, there is no solution,”Agure said
Agure was optimistic that the conference would make a difference for more than 40,000 people who were engaged in conflict within the regions.
In June 2020, President Salva Kiir Mayardit formed a committee to look into the perennial conflicts that affect Jonglei States and Pibor Administrative Area. The organisers had brought in youth, women, elders and administrative officers such as area chiefs drown from the war-torn areas to for the conference.