Does conflict always have to be expressed with violence? Yet, perhaps nothing is more commonly observed in our communities today than violent conflict, often resulting in the loss of human lives, also sometimes causing human displacement and permanent or protracted dislocations in human relationships. Once conflict sets in, people tend to live in prolonged pain, hatred, anxiety, and regret, and until someone comes around to help restore the broken relationships, no good ever comes out of the situation. But, even if the relationships are restored, you still need to bring back those important infrastructures and facilities that can make life really worth living again! LSP leader, Nathaniel Msen Awuapila with his team, offers free training and mentoring to desiring youths and institutions that seek to acquire or build their skills and general capacity to live in peace and build a healthy, happy community of responsible citizens whose social and physical environment is protected, for their mutual/collective good.

1. Presents…
LSP Training Module: dealing with community
conflict

2. LSP Module 1:
Dealing with community conflict
 The LEADING SKILLS Project presents LSP Module 1, a
novel youth training opportunity!
 It’s free, its accessible, its available to you right in your
neighbourhood!
 LSP Module 1 is designed to build/train youth’s awareness
and significantly enhance their capacity for situation
analysis, problem solving, and conflict transformation.
 LSP Module 1 KEY OUTCOMES include: that participants’
capacity for problem and conflict analysis is significantly
impacted; they are able to efficiently resolve interpersonal and
neighbourhood conflicts and facilitate transformation of same;
and they can contribute to conflict-sensitive community
building initiatives.The LEADING SKILLS Project, August 2011
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3. A scene of
conflict or
disaster?
You walk into a community
and are confronted by this
kind of sight; what are you
going to imagine?
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4. Gaining awareness!
You walk further into the community and see things like
this. What more are you going to think?
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5. Appreciating the impactAt this stage, you have begun to be deeply aware of the
level of harm inflicted on the community. What will you
do?
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6. You want to take a decision, an
informed decision!So, you meet with the
affected and other relevant
persons
You go into the field to find out in all
possible detail, what actually
happened
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7. You want to determine the
appropriate next course of
action
So, you find out more about the
people affected by the conflict
You also do an assessment of the conflict
outcomes and you seek to determine the
impact on the community, now till the
foreseeable future
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8. There are several
other things to
do, if you must
act right!
E.g. You’ll seek to learn about several
other persons & groups that are involved
in the situation, and the manner of their
involvement;
You’ll really dig deeper into the issues;
You’ll discover whether the situation is
getting worse or better, and why?
You’ll find out who’s doing what, and
why?
You’ll find out what’s helpful to do, and
what’s not?
You’ll determine what appropriate
outcomes to work toward achieving?
You’ll decide on WHO to work with, HOW
to do so, and WHAT gains can really
result from your involvement?
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9. What more must you do
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10. What to do? Make up your
mind…
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11. Take it in measures.
Don’t carry more than you can…
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12. Meet the people again to find out the fit
solution that meets their need
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13. Provide the fit solution!
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14. How can LSP help
you?
 Perhaps nothing is more commonly observed in your
community today than violent conflict, often resulting in the
loss of property and human lives, also sometimes causing
human displacement and permanent or protracted
dislocations in human relationships.
 Quite often, such violent conflicts result in the destruction of
important infrastructures upon which the wellbeing of your
community has depended.
 Far too often, once such infrastructures are destroyed or
tampered with, no one comes to the rescue. So your
community has to learn to live with the intolerable situation.
 But what happens most of the time? The absence of such
important infrastructures, coupled with the fact that human
relationships in the community have been
compromised, generally tends to brew further conflict in the
community. The LEADING SKILLS Project, August 2011
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15. How can LSP help
you?
 So, what happens then?
 People continue to live with pain, hatred, anxiety, and
regret.
 Until someone comes around to help restore the broken
relationships, no good can really come out of the
situation.
 Even if the relationships are restored, you still need to
bring back those important infrastructures and other
facilities that can make life in the community really worth
living again!
But then, we ask the question: mustThe LEADING SKILLS Project, August 2011 by
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16. How can LSP help
you?
 Well, LSP agrees that in this world, conflict is
unavoidable; still, violent conflict is surely avoidable; with
the right degree of capacity people can live amicably and
manage their conflicts non-violently.
 LSP also agrees that conflict is often a necessary path to
growth and development, and so ought not be detested
but embraced as long as it is pursued by nonviolent
means.
 LSP leader, Nathaniel Msen Awuapila with his
team, offers free training and mentoring to desiring
youths and institutions that seek to acquire or build their
skills and general capacity to live in peace and build a
healthy, happy community of responsible citizens whose
social and physical environment is protected, for their
mutual/collective good.The LEADING SKILLS Project, August 2011 by
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17. Why LSP?
 The LEADING SKILLS Project is designed to inspire
the target audience and motivate them to act in the
interest of their total growth and development, the
obvious expected outcome of which is a happy
youth, a peaceful neighbourhood, and a community
of highly motivated, caring and collaborative
persons, who jointly seek to build a global
community that protects the freedoms and dignity of
each human person, a community that also protects
their environment.
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18. LSP key motivation
 The LEADING SKILLS Project seeks to persuade
children and youths to realize the power of skills. You
know, it’s said that knowledge is power. Truth is, the
POWER in the body of knowledge resides mainly in
the SKILL to apply what is known. So, knowledge
without know-how is dead!
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19. How to benefit from
LSP
The LEADING SKILLS Project comes to
you via Slideshare as easy-read power
point presentations with priority focus on
the learning and self-development
needs of children and youths.
LSP leader, Nathaniel, may also be
contacted to offer face to face once-off
trainings or mentoring, based on
arrangement.
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20. We value your
feedback!
 The LEADING SKILLS Project values and welcomes
your input. You can contact us at:
 Email: awuapila71@gmail.com
 GSM: +2348066559669
 Skype: nathaniel.awuapila1
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21. About LSP
leader Nathaniel Msen AWUAPILA, M.IAM is the initiator of The LEADING SKILLS Project
and a trainer/facilitator on project management, governance, peacebuilding and
conflict resolution.
 He has studied at the Claretian Institute of Philosophy (CIP), Maryland
Nekede, Nigeria; Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA), Nairobi Kenya; and
West Africa Peacebuilding Institute (WAPI), Accra Ghana, among others. He has
studied Philosophy and taken various courses in Theology and Sociology, and holds
professional qualifications in Project Management and Peacebuilding and Conflict
Resolution.
 Nathaniel is also a researcher, public speaker, trainer, youth mentor, disaster/conflict
analyst, a practicing project manager and a published author.
 Some of his works include Understanding Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral
(Kenbest, 2002); The Total Educator (CORAF-Network, 2003); Establishing
Community Structures for Peace in North Central Nigeria (2009), in I.O. Albert & I.O.
Oloyede (Eds), Dynamics of Peace Processes (John Archers); Unwrap Yourself:
peace within and without (I-Proclaim, 2010), Restorative Justice, ADR and Mediation
in criminal justice and prison reforms as viable opportunities to break the cycle of
incarceration (Published in Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on
Human Rights and Prison Reform, 2011. www.internationalcure.org).
 Nathaniel lives in Nigeria.
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22. LSP leader
Nathaniel Msen Awuapila, M.IAM
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23. LSP leader
shares!
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24. LSP leader (2nd
from right, front
row) with WANEP
Nigeria colleagues
engaged in
disaster/conflict
early warning
monitoring and
analysis (2011). 4th
from the right is
Ifeanyi
Okechukwu, Natio
nal Network
Coordinator, WAN
EP Nigeria.
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25. On the left, LSP leader (1st from the right) presents a paper at CPSS Conference, University of
Ilorin, Nigeria 2009; on the right, he addresses a traditional ruler on his NGO’s disaster mitigation
support to his community in Gwer West LGA, Nigeria, Feb. 2011.
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26. On the left, LSP leader (2nd from the left in blue shirt) in a session with traditional rulers to review
conflict situation in Agila, Ado LGA in Benue State, Nigeria (2010). Next to him is his colleague in
the HJDPC, Christopher Agbo, Peace Officer of Otukpo Catholic Diocese; on the right, LSP
leader addresses community women in Gwer West LGA on measures to support their IGA
initiatives through CORAFID (2010).
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27. On the left, LSP leader (standing) facilitates a team-building exercise with colleagues and
volunteers in the HJDPC in Abuja FCT, Feb. 2011; on the right, he (in yellow shirt) provides
accompaniment services to the project team in the Catholic Diocese of Makurdi, Benue
State, Nigeria, April 2011.
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28. LSP leader (1st from right) just after facilitating a
training session on Nigeria’s Draft Peace Policy
and peace strategies for elected representatives
from Kuje Area Council, Abuja
FCT, Nigeria, August 2011. He is an avowed
advocate for the promotion of the National Peace
Policy principles.
LSP leader (middle, front row), and WANEP
Nigeria’s National Network Coordinator, Ifeanyi
Okechukwu, after successfully co-facilitating a
training of trainers workshop on Early Warning
and Early Response for officers and volunteers of
HJDPC, Abuja Province. Participants were drawn
from the States of Benue, Kogi, Nasarawa and
Abuja FCT, Nigeria, August 2009.
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29. LSP leader in a warm handshake with Okene LGA Chairman (left); also in a
handshake with the paramount traditional ruler of Okene (right), Kogi
State, Nigeria, August 2010.
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30. On the left, LSP leader (left) listens to a displaced community leader in Kwande LGA, on circumstances
leading to violent conflict in their community; on the right, he (backs cameraman) confers with community
leaders in Agatu LGA on conflict situation in their community, Aug. 2010, Benue State, Nigeria.
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31. On the left, LSP leader (1st from left) enjoys a meal with colleagues at West Africa Peacebuilding
Institute, Accra Ghana, Sept. 2007; on the right, he (1st from left) with CORAFID’s Peer Mentoring Team
(PMT) members from Gwagwalada, Abuja FCT, Nigeria, April 2011. 2nd from the right is Magdalene Uche
Ekwuye, LSP Team Facilitator , who also oversees PZR Network (PZR Network is a youth mentoring
platform under CORAFID).
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32. On the left, LSP Team Facilitator, Magdalene Uche Ekwuye; on the right, Team
Facilitator with CORAFID’s Peer Mentoring Team (PMT) in Karmo, Abuja
FCT, Nigeria, May 2011.
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33. Cheers!
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