The West Africa Network for Peace Building (WANEP) has officially launched the Electoral Violence Monitoring Analysis and Mitigation (E-MAM 2023-2026) Project for the October 10, 2023 general and presidential elections.
Speaking at a three-day capacity building training for CSOs/NGOs on electoral dispute management and response designing, held at the Corina Hotel, Monrovia, the Executive Director of Liberia Peace Building Office, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Edward Mulbah, called on the CDC government to act in accordance with the law and foster the peace in Liberia.
Mulbah said, “This election should not carry us to the dark days; instead, it should help to promote peace for the country now that we are at a point where we need to maintain the peace.”
According to him, “The next few days we will be celebrating 20 years of peace since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement on August 18, 2003. So what are we doing to make sure the Farmington Declaration live on and the CPA?”
He also called on all government entities to be protective of every election participant, and urged political parties to act rightly.
Goodwill messages were made by several institutions, including the National Center for the Coordination of the Response Mechanism (NCCRM), Election Coordinating Committee (ECC), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and European Union (EU) delegation.
The objectives of the training and pre-training assessment were conducted by Julien Oussou, WANEP’s Regional EMAM Coordinator.
Day-one of the training saw participants drilled through the types of electoral disputes/violence, causes of electoral disputes, manifestations of election disputes, analysis of election disputes, tools for analyzing election disputes and application of analytical tools.
The event, which started on Tuesday, August 15, 2023 will come to an end on Thursday, August 17, 2023.