Peacebuilding and Human Development (PHD) Center, a registered apolitical, non-religious, non-racial and non-governmental organisation has approached the Ekiti State University Institute of Peace, Governance and Security, for collaboration.
The centre has also resolved to work with the institution’s Institute of Gender and Development Studies, to help curtail festering cases of sex abuse in Nigerian society.
The PhD is an organisation with passion for raising the consciousness of every individual to recognise and embrace peace as a common interest in the pursuance of peaceful coexistence.
Receiving members of the PhD in her office, the Institute’s Director, Prof. (Mrs) Florence Modupe Osalusi, a professor of Social Studies and Civic Orientation, described the visit as novel.
Introducing the PHD Center to the Institute, the organisation’s Program Officer, Miss Mercy Abiola, stated that “it is good to establish that our organisation is not new to your Institute as we have had history of collaboration with the Institution as a whole and Centre for Gender and Development Studies (CGDS).
“It is worthy of note in the history of Ekiti State, before 2015, that no organisation institutionalised the commemoration of the international day of peace (also known as World Peace Day) in Ekiti State until PHD Centre did in 2015 and this has been a continuous activity in the organisation and even in the state.
“We brought the importance of the day out which has also motivated your Institute to join in the commemoration of the International Day.
“Also, with the CGDS, PHD Centre has history of collaboration together with Peace Club of EKSU and made presentations at their subsequent events,” she recalled.
Abiola noted that the Institute has objectives similar to that of PHD Center and hence the visit to officially seek for partnership for greater community impact.
“In actualising the lofty goals of the PHD Center, it is necessary to partner with government and its agencies, donors, non-governmental organisations, local community organisations and well-meaning individuals to develop sustainable development policies and programs to address environmental threats, human well-being, security challenges and peaceful coexistence in our world,” she stressed.
She added that the thematic area of the center includes peacebuilding, justice and human right, gender, sustainable development, democracy and good governance, human development, health, poverty eradication, education, environmental issues, advocacy and research.