Speaking during the opening ceremony, the Acting Superintendent of Bong County, Mr. Anthony Sherif, welcomed the stakeholders and encouraged them to fully participate in the deliberation, adding that the peace building road map is very paramount in fostering national peacebuilding, healing and reconciliation. Woods, Executive Director of FIND, thanked the participants and the county administration of Bong for honoring their invitation to participate in the review process of the Strategic Road Map for National Healing, Peacebuilding and Reconciliation. Mr. Woods mentioned that the Gbarnga consultative meeting will climax ongoing consultations with multi-stakeholders on the need to make the national peacebuilding and reconciliation document relevant to the emerging peacebuilding and reconciliation realities. The strategic roadmap for national peacebuilding, healing and reconciliation was commissioned several years ago by the government of Liberia with support from its international partners including the United Nations as a working document to foster national peacebuilding, healing and reconciliation in Liberia. At the end the revision process, the final version of Strategic roadmap for national peacebuilding, healing and reconciliation will be adopted by stakeholders including the five principle institutions on national reconciliation and formally presented to the Government of Liberia as a working document to consolidate national peacebuilding, healing and reconciliation during the incoming administrations.

Source: Front Page Africa November 08, 2017 03:11 UTC