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PEPNET’s Community Engagement Platform strengthens grassroots participation, dialogue culture, civic awareness, local peace actions, and community resilience through practical and people-centred engagement processes.
The platform promotes peacebuilding as a collective social responsibility rooted in communities, relationships, participation, and shared values rather than as a purely institutional or elite process.
Through dialogue, learning, reflection, mentorship, and community interaction, the platform seeks to strengthen social cohesion, citizen engagement, and community-driven peacebuilding cultures.
Peace Lovers Connect (PLC) is PEPNET’s grassroots peace engagement and dialogue platform promoting peaceful coexistence, social cohesion, community participation, civic engagement, and local peace action.
PLC was launched in November 2024 with a community movie screening of A Girl From Mogadishu, followed by reflective dialogue sessions focused on peace, conflict, resilience, identity, and social responsibility.
The platform was designed to make peace engagement more interactive, relatable, community-driven, and socially engaging while building a growing ecosystem of peace education advocates and civic-minded young people.
Over time, PLC has evolved into multiple engagement formats including:
In 2026, PLC expanded into practitioner-focused learning engagements bringing together peacebuilding practitioners, volunteers, facilitators, and development actors to learn practical concepts including:
The platform also engages students and young people on professional pathways within peacebuilding, civic engagement, development practice, and leadership.
PLC continues to strengthen:
The initiative holds strong potential for expansion into broader civic engagement and local peacebuilding networks across Nigeria and beyond.
PEPNET Community Connect (PCC) is a community of practice and sustained engagement platform connecting peacebuilders, volunteers, educators, youth leaders, facilitators, development practitioners, and institutional stakeholders across PEPNET’s growing ecosystem.
The platform supports peer learning, collaboration, mentorship, volunteer coordination, institutional networking, and continuous civic engagement while strengthening long-term relationships within the peacebuilding and development spa
PCC is primarily hosted virtually and remains open to:
Each engagement is organised around a thematic learning focus, strategic conversation, or community reflection.
Since 2024, PEPNET has hosted multiple Community Connect sessions featuring:
The platform has also supported the visibility and engagement of PEPNET’s collaborators, partners, and affiliated institutions.
PCC continues to contribute toward:
The platform reflects PEPNET’s long-term vision of building a connected and collaborative peace education community across Africa and beyond.
