Community mobilization is the process of engaging communities to identify community priorities, resources, needs, and solutions in such a way as to promote representative participation, good governance, accountability, and peaceful change. Sustained mobilization takes placewhen communities remain active and empowered after the program ends. Fostering people to be their own agents of change is the underlying goal of ‘community mobilization.’SAMBAD is driven by local needs and contexts and provides communities with the tools and support they need to transform their own conflict ridden emotions and grievances and at the same time deal with implications of the violent past.
With community mobilization, there is a higher likelihood that the program accurately reflects the legitimate needs and concerns of the local people. The approach takes into account the different experiences, needs and capabilities of diverse groups in a community. Instead of passive participation and tokenism, the project aims to motivate communities for self-mobilization.
As Figure 1 demonstrates, the interventions of SAMBAD activities are based essentially upon two pronged approaches related to actors who need to be engaged and mobilized for peace.
In order to change the values and cultures at the socio – political level, SAMBAD concentrated on the sensitization and capacity building of Local Peace Committee members both at the district and village
level with the belief that sustainable peace requires not only changes in attitudes and relationships but also changes in socio-political, or institutional, structures. At community reconciliation, it fostered to deal with violent past and improved trust, empathy, and resilient social ties to improve the non-likelihood of violence.Through its people based approach, SAMBAD concentrates on engaging large numbers of community people, particularly the conflict affected people, in actions to promote peace by ensuring broad involvement and mobilization of Peace Volunteers. Another aspect of the People to People approach its focus on involving influential people whose role is seen as critical to the continuation or resolution of conflict because of their network and influence in their communities. The key people are members of peace committees, political leaders, social mobilizers, and Peace Volunteers and above all, Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction.
With community mobilization, there is a higher likelihood that the program accurately reflects the legitimate needs and concerns of the local people. The approach takes into account the different experiences, needs and capabilities of diverse groups in a community. Instead of passive participation and tokenism, the project aims to motivate communities for self-mobilization.
As Figure 1 demonstrates, the interventions of SAMBAD activities are based essentially upon two pronged approaches related to actors who need to be engaged and mobilized for peace.
In order to change the values and cultures at the socio – political level, SAMBAD concentrated on the sensitization and capacity building of Local Peace Committee members both at the district and village
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