Across the Great Lakes region, competition over natural resources, climate pressures and protracted conflicts present interconnected challenges. But what if the way we manage shared resources could also create opportunities for dialogue, cooperation and trust? Today, we are co-hosting a panel at the #SIPRIForum exploring how inclusive conflict transformation and natural resource management can strengthen community resilience, address grievances and build lasting peace. Because building peace also means transforming how we relate to our environment, our resources and one another.
From learning to action: Strengthening civil society’s role in transitional justice.
The 3rd cohort of the Capacity Strengthening Training on the African Union Transitional Justice Policy (AUTJP) has concluded in Naivasha, Kenya.
Over three days, civil society and community-based organisation representatives explored key principles of transitional justice and reconciliation, shared experiences from their respective contexts, and strengthened their capacity to engage in policy implementation and community-level processes.
The training reinforced the significance of civil society participation in advancing meaningful inclusive, locally owned, gender-responsive and trauma-informed transitional justice processes.
As participants take their learning back to their respective organisations and communities, the focus now shifts from learning into practice, strengthening and maintaining collaboration, and further contributing to sustainable peace across the Horn of Africa and Great Lakes region.
#AUTJP #TransitionalJustice #Peacebuilding #CivilSociety
Peacebuilding takes more than funding. It takes trust, meaningful partnerships and sustained support for local leadership.
Today, the Life & Peace Institute is participating in the Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development 2026.
Together with @Saferworld, LPI is co-hosting a session exploring what sustains local peacebuilders in times of crisis, drawing on experiences from Ukraine and the Horn of Africa. We will join fellow practitioners and partners to discuss how we can strengthen local agency, organisational resilience and locally led peacebuilding.
The third cohort of the Capacity Strengthening Training on the African Union Transitional Justice Policy (AUTJP) is underway in Naivasha, Kenya!
The Horn of Africa Regional Program (HARP), in collaboration with @_IJR_ and @_CSVR, has convened the 3rd cohort of the African Union Transitional Justice Policy (AUTJP) Capacity-Strengthening Training in Naivasha, Kenya, from 28–30 October 2026.
The training has brought together diverse representatives of civil society and community-Based organisations from across the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes region to further strengthen their understanding of the AUTJP and explore practical approaches to advancing transitional justice, reconciliation, and sustainable peace in their respective contexts.
For the first time, the training has also included persons with disabilities (PWDs), with Sign Language interpretation provided to support their meaningful participation. This marks an important step towards amplifying voices that are often underrepresented in transitional justice spaces and ensuring that diverse perspectives and lived experiences inform conversations on justice, reconciliation, and sustainable peace.
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Three Years of Action. Stories of Change. Lessons for the Future. 🌍
Today, we come together at the Mobility & Movement (M&M) Summit to celebrate a journey of peacebuilding, resilience and community-led transformation across the Kenya–Ethiopia borderlands.
Over the past three years, communities have demonstrated what becomes possible when dialogue leads to collective action.
From rebuilding trust and reopening cross-border markets and mobility corridors to strengthening livelihoods, restoring rangelands and improving cooperation on peace and security, the stories emerging from the borderlands remind us that peace is not just the absence of conflict. It is the presence of opportunities, relationships and collective resilience.
Today's summit brings together communities, government representatives, development partners and other stakeholders to reflect on achievements, share lessons and explore how these gains can be sustained beyond the project.
The journey continues, driven by communities and strengthened through partnerships.
#MMSummit #MobilityAndMovement #PeaceAcrossBorders #ResilientCommunities #KenyaEthiopia #CommunityLedPeace #HDPNexus
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What happens when communities, leaders and authorities work together?
Responses are becoming more proactive and the community is leading the conversations. The challenge ahead is making that cooperation lasting.
Will these relationships last beyond the project? Will they hold when new pressures arise? The M&M / Borderlands Pre-Summit is where we’ll tackle these questions together.
Moyale | 22 October 2026
#MobilityAndMovement #CrossBorderResilience #Peacebuilding #ResilientLivelihoods #Moyale
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Eight disaster risk reduction committees. Four in Kenya, four in Ethiopia.
What changes when a warning is heard and acted on early? Communities become more prepared and less fragile.
Drought and insecurity strike the same livelihoods. Now communities and institutions are linking what they know to the decisions they make.
At the M&M / Borderlands Pre-Summit, we’ll explore how the community prepare before conditions worsen.
Moyale | 22 October 2026
#MobilityAndMovement #CrossBorderResilience #Peacebuilding #ResilientLivelihoods #Moyale
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178 acres of rangeland restored. 91 grazing areas managed. 4 corridor-level resource plans.
Behind the numbers are people agreeing how to share and protect what they depend on.
Join the conversation on the M&M Pre-Summit and learn how people are rebuilding the land that sustains them.
Moyale | 22 October 2026
#MobilityAndMovement #CrossBorderResilience #Peacebuilding #ResilientLivelihoods #Moyale
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18 new savings groups. Around EUR 20,209 saved. More choices for women and young people.
Resilience grows when households have several sources of support. Today, community finance is building lasting livelihood, one group at a time.
Stronger savings. Fairer markets. Lasting economic gains from peace. Be part of the conversation at the M&M Borderlands Pre-Summit
Moyale | 22 October 2026
#MobilityAndMovement #CrossBorderResilience #Peacebuilding #ResilientLivelihoods #Moyale
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Borders and trust
When a border becomes a bridge, communities move closer together, routes reopen, markets revive, and neighbours who once kept their distance now trade with each other.
“Before, we suspected each other like foes. Now we have built a healthy relationship; we buy and sell to each other.” — Dukale community respondent
Across the Kenya-Ethiopia borderlands, trust is shaping a new kind of resilience.
At the M&M / Borderlands Pre-Summit, communities, authorities and partners will reflect on what has changed and what it will take to keep these ties strong
Moyale | 22 October 2026
#MobilityAndMovement #CrossBorderResilience #Peacebuilding #ResilientLivelihoods #Moyale
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From 16–18 September, the Life & Peace Institute, Somali Peace Line and youth-led partners Somali Youth Leaders, Somali Girls Right Development Orgnization and Peace Development Forum convened a three-day Youth Summit in Kismayo, bringing together young people from Galkayo, Baidoa, Kismayo and Abudwak, alongside government representatives from the Ministries of Youth and Sports of Jubbaland, Galmudug and Southwest State. The summit provided a platform to share achievements, exchange experiences, engage with government stakeholders on youth participation and inclusion in governance, strengthen networking among youth from different regions, and build a shared and unified youth voice on peacebuilding and governance priorities. The summit was held under the project “Expanding Civic Space and Stimulating Youth-Inclusive Political Processes and Participation in Somalia,” supported by the UN Peacebuilding Fund.
From the Horn of Africa to Berlin
We’re heading to the Berlin Climate and Security Conference 2026 : taking local experiences, regional learning and perspectives from the Horn of Africa into a global climate security conversation.
On 5 October, LPI will join the side event: A Fragile Balance: Climate Change, Non-State Armed Groups, and Security in Lake Chad.
While the conversation centres on Lake Chad, we’ll bring lessons from the Horn of Africa where climate pressures, insecurity, livelihoods and governance intersect every day.
Different contexts. Shared questions.
See you in Berlin. #BCSC2026
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Today, the Life & Peace Institute’s Mobility & Movement – Cross-Border Resilience (M&M) Project and partners joined communities in Moyale, Kenya, to commemorate the International Day of Peace. A moment to reflect on the importance of peace, resilience and cross-border cooperation in building safer, more connected communities.
#InternationalDayOfPeace #PeaceDay #Moyale #CrossBorderPeace
@EUinKenya
Today, on the International Day of Peace, we join people around the world in reflecting on the importance of investing in peace, for everyone, everywhere, every day. At the Life & Peace Institute, we believe peace is built with and by people and communities affected by conflict. Their voices, knowledge and leadership are essential to transforming conflicts and building more inclusive, just and peaceful societies.
#InternationalDayOfPeace #InvestInPeace #Peacebuilding
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What does climate, peace and security look like at the local level?
We took this question to the Moyale, Kenya–Ethiopia border.
Through the Horn of Africa Community of Practice on Climate, Peace and Security (CoP-CPS), policymakers from IGAD Member States and LPI’s borderland civil society partners came together to learn and reflect.
From the One Stop Border Post to communities living along and across the border, we engaged with cross-border peace and natural resource committees, women, men, young people and community leaders. We listened to the challenges faced by communities but also witnessed how local actors are responding to the impacts of climate change through resilience.
Each voice offered a different perspective -- Together, they showed what climate, peace and security looks like at the grassroots and what is needed from those shaping policy.
Like the strings of a harp, every voice contributes to the harmony. Different voices - a stronger resilient region - a more peaceful tomorrow!
#ClimatePeaceSecurity #HornOfAfrica #Borderlands #Peacebuilding #CentringThePeripheries
@SweinEthiopia @IGAD_CPAC
The Mobility & Movement – Cross-Border Resilience (M&M) Project and partners will commemorate the International Day of Peace on 21 September 2026 in Moyale, Kenya, by reflecting on the impact the M&M project has brought to the communities in livelihood resilience, peace and security. Let us come together to celebrate peace, reflect on our contributions to peaceful coexistence, and reaffirm our collective commitment to strengthening peace and collaboration across the Kenya–Ethiopia borderlands.
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The Mobility & Movement – Cross-Border Resilience (M&M) Project: Dukana Dillo Cross-Border Peace Committee Training
🌍 From the Horn of Africa to heart of Lagos, Nigeria: Connecting Borderlands, Knowledge and Practice
The Life & Peace Institute’s Horn of Africa Regional Programme (HARP) will be at the ABORNE 2026 Conference in Lagos, Nigeria, from 24–28 August 2026.
As Africa continues to navigate increasingly interconnected borderlands, there is a growing need to bridge research, policy and practice and ensure that the voices and experiences of borderland communities on the continent inform regional responses.
At ABORNE 2026, HARP will share insights from its work over the years advancing secure and prosperous borderlands in the Horn of Africa, while also learning from borderlands researchers, practitioners and policymakers from different regions in Africa.
🤝 Diverse regions, shared challenges, shared learning, shared responsibilities.
HARP will connect with other practitioners and academia in Lagos and contribute practical conversations on how Africa can build more connected, peaceful, resilient and prosperous borderlands.
#ABORNE2026 #HARP #LPI #ConnectedBorderlands #ProsperousBorderlands #Peacebuilding #Borderlands #HornOfAfrica #Africa #RegionalCooperation #Sida
