From the National Committee for Healing, Peace, and Reconciliation

South Sudan’s National Committee for Healing, Peace, and Reconciliation (CNHPR) held a two-day meeting in Juba to reenergise and evaluate programs going forward in 2015. State chairmen, special interest representatives and all five of the executive members: Archbishop Daniel Deng, Bishop Paride Taban, Bishop Rudolph Deng, Moderator Peter Gai, and Bishop Enock Tombe, attended the meeting.

Representatives from every state in the nation and Abyei came to discuss the people to process and roll out of activities in 2015.

The Deputy Chair of CNHPR Bishop Paride Taban explained that “We are trying to get rid of tribalism not tribes” when discussing the vision of the future of the nation.

Over the next two years, the Committee will continue to facilitate a nation-wide consultation process at the grassroots level to ensure that South Sudan’s future reconciliation journey is driven and shaped by its citizens’ rich experiences, knowledge, and needs.

This meeting is a strategic step towards CNHPR’s planned consultation process, which will eventuate in the development of a people-driven National Reconciliation Agenda.