TRANS4ORM FOUNDER AND CEO ADDRESSES PEACE CONNECT
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- Published on Friday, 17 October 2025 17:43
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Dr. Vincent Azumah, founder and CEO of Trans4orm Network, Ghana, addressed a global forum of over 600 local peacebuilding practitioners and their allies in Nairobi. Peace Connect, is the first of its kind to bring together peacebuilders from the global south for five days, to share, learn and to co-create possibilities in an increasingly violent world.
Addressing a session that was designed to consult African CSO in preparation for the 2025 CSO-UN Dialogue on Peacebuilding, Dr. Azumah noted that after 80 years of existence, the UN is battered, tired and needs some energizing to be able to respond to the current and emerging peace and security challenges. He therefore challenged African CSOs to support the UN with ideas, lived experiences and collaborative and grounded approaches to mitigate conflicts and violence. The session dubbed, “From Nairobi To Geneva: African Regional Consultation Towards The 2025 CSO-UN Dialogue on Peacebuilding”, was co-organised by UNDPPA, WANEP, ACCORD and the Open Society Foundation (OSF).
Dr. Azumah noted that if Africa’s myriad of peace and security challenges of election related violence, land management, natural resource and climate change induced conflicts, terrorism and organized crime, chieftaincy and political leadership and unconstitutional change of governments, open wars, made more dangerous by geopolitics, transactional conflict resolution and increasing youth unemployment, “it is important to deploy our collective and diverse expertise and experiences in more coordinated and collaborative ways. We are stronger together as we forge ahead with collective resolve to work in more creative ways and with grounded and culturally impactful processes”
