{"id":7477,"date":"2016-10-05T09:07:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T13:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/?p=7477"},"modified":"2016-10-07T14:34:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T18:34:46","slug":"wplp-roselyne-onungas-impactful-intervention-with-the-luo-and-kalenjin-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/2016\/10\/wplp-roselyne-onungas-impactful-intervention-with-the-luo-and-kalenjin-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"WPLP: Roselyne Onunga&#8217;s Impactful Intervention With the Luo and Kalenjin Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7748\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7748\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2016\/10\/peace-13.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7748 \" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2016\/10\/peace-13-300x163.png\" alt=\"peace-13\" width=\"620\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2016\/10\/peace-13-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2016\/10\/peace-13-768x417.png 768w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2016\/10\/peace-13-660x358.png 660w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2016\/10\/peace-13.png 1350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roselyne Onunga helps transform conflict and build infrastructure in her native Kenya.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/cjp\/womens-leadership\/\">Women&#8217;s Peacebuilding Leadership Program<\/a> curriculum fuses theory and practice, with each student developing an intervention project through which she into practice skills and knowledge learned. <strong>Roselyne Onunga<\/strong> (top photo, at right), a 2015 graduate from Kenya, addressed conflicts between the Luo and Kalenjin communities involving land\/boundary disputes and cattle theft along the Nyakach-Kericho border.<\/p>\n<p>The previous year, 35 deaths were associated with the conflict. Onunga\u2019s analysis revealed that, in her words, \u201cthe people who were involved in the fights were not involved in the community peace talks being held in the area.\u201d With the support of her organization, Local Capacities for Peace International, and the district peace committee, Onunga organized a series of meetings between the two conflicting communities. She first served as a mediator, going between huts due to the refusal of the representatives to sit together. Eventually, the representatives formed an effective and collaborative cross-border committee, the result of their actions being no conflict-related deaths between these communities in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, she facilitated civic education trainings, which resulted in the construction of the community\u2019s first road as well as local political representation. Now more confident and skilled, Onunga is focusing on mentoring young women who will run for public office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany people think that peacebuilders should not hold office,\u201d she says, \u201cbut I tell them peacebuilding and political ambitions go hand in hand. In fact, peacebuilders should have the opportunity to involve themselves in political positions so they are able to make changes in governance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Women&#8217;s Peacebuilding Leadership Program curriculum fuses theory and practice, with each student developing an intervention project through which she into practice skills and knowledge&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/2016\/10\/wplp-roselyne-onungas-impactful-intervention-with-the-luo-and-kalenjin-communities\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about WPLP: Roselyne Onunga&#8217;s Impactful Intervention With the Luo and Kalenjin Communities<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1073],"tags":[],"issues":[1425],"class_list":["post-7477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine","issues-2016-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7477"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7749,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477\/revisions\/7749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7477"},{"taxonomy":"issues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=7477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}