Gov’t officials, security officers learn Rwanda’s peacebuilding script

The representatives of the parties in the revitalised peace agreement have concluded a one-week training program on post-conflict peacebuilding, reconstruction, and stabilisation in Kigali, Rwanda.

The trainees comprised senior military officers, ministers, and some members of parliament.

Dr. Martin Elia Lomuro, Minister of Cabinet Affairs, told the journalists in Kigali after the training that they had a lot of lectures on Rwanda’s experience after the 1994 genocide.

Lomuro said the delegation was sensitised on how Rwanda was able to use the genocide experience to emerge into the country that it is today, where there is security, food security, development, cleanliness, and peace.

“We were able to take that experience, especially in conflict analysis, to analyse our conflict and to put together some solutions based on the root causes of the conflict,” Dr. Martin said.

Ready to go

“I think this has been a very useful seminar and I believe all my colleagues, both the representatives of the various political parties that are partners in the agreement and our army and police officers, are already born again. They will also be ambassadors of peace and reconstruction of the Republic of South Sudan, ” he said.

In the training, they were taken through some of the provisions of the renewed peace agreement of 2018. Dr Lomuro said the idea was to ensure that this is incorporated into the peace agreement to ensure what they have learned is put into practice.

“What we will do when we return is to make a report to the Council of Ministers and the leadership of the country so that the various proposals that we will be submitting for the consideration of the cabinet will now be resolutions that can be implemented.

“That will be the insurance way to make sure that what we have gained are incorporated into the process of implementing the agreement,” Dr Martin stressed.