From Skill to System

Capacity Strengthening Training on Mediation Skill

The documented record begins with a four-day training under the Community-Led Conflict Transformation Through Participatory Action Research (PAR) project. Its own event banner names the Government of Sweden and the Life & Peace Institute as supporting partners.

Participants included community members alongside religious and traditional leaders — visible across the room in the photographs below, from clerical caps to formal dress to a facilitator working the room in a plain white shirt.

Mediators Training

Roughly eight months on, the program moved from foundational skills to formal Mediators Training — structured sessions, small-group work, and open discussion.

Signage in the room placed the training inside a wider partnership working across gender, peace, health, environment, and poverty — the same institutional framing that would carry through to the hub's founding a year later.

Establishing Linkages Between the Community Mediation Center and Government Institutions

Four weeks later, a dedicated workshop connected the emerging mediation structure to government institutions — the step that turns a trained group into a recognized referral point.

Photographs from the workshop show a case taxonomy discussed on-screen (including land, family, and protection-related disputes) and government and security personnel seated directly alongside community members.

The Hub, in Session

Three weeks after the linkage workshop, the hub itself appears in the record — in its own room, under its own signage, holding its own meeting.