PESHAWAR
Aurat Foundation and Search for Common Ground (SFCG) here Wednesday arranged a consultative session to increase participation of women in decision making and peace building efforts.
The consultative session was participated in by representatives of police and education departments besides journalists and minority community members. Resident Director Aurat Foundation, Imtiaz said that fifty women belonging to various areas of the country were given orientation about peace and decision making under ‘Khawateen Mamar-e- Aman (Peace building women) Project. She said that those women were given training, orientation and needed capacity building to perform their role in peace building process.
Narrating here experience, one of the trainees, Samreen Hakeem of Swat told that the techniques learned in training help here to orient jail inmates and women living in Dar-ul-Aman.
Chairman Journalism Department University of Peshawar, Dr. Faiz Ullah said that we need peace in our country and coming generation adding that extremism is not the problem of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa but it had affected people living in the whole country. Speakers also stressed to involve minority community women in decision making process and provide them needed assistance and facilitation to play their part.
