{"id":40057,"date":"2019-09-20T11:07:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T11:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/defense-minister-calls-for-implementation-of\/"},"modified":"2019-09-24T14:52:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T14:52:32","slug":"defense-minister-calls-for-implementation-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/defense-minister-calls-for-implementation-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense minister calls for implementation of sustainable peace building programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was speaking at a regional conference entitled, \u201cRwanda\u2019s Journey towards Sustainable Peace \u2013 25 Years\u201d that started yesterday in Kigali.<\/p>\n<p>The 2 days conference is organized by Rwanda Peace Academy, in partnership with the Government of Japan and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).<\/p>\n<p>The conference seeks to evaluate the progress and identify challenges to the socio-economic and political transformation in Rwanda after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi and to come up with strategies to continue the drive to sustainable peace. <\/p>\n<p>In his remarks during the opening ceremony, Minister Murasira said: \u201cThis conference is a reminder that unless we invest in understanding, owning and implementing peacebuilding programmes, our countries risk relapsing into violent conflict or will fail to prevent future violence. Sustainable peace is a measure of successful peacebuilding and cannot be realized without building the institutions that are capable of resolving future conflicts peacefully.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Stephen Rodriques, the UNDP Resident Representative for Rwanda observed that Rwanda\u2019s journey to recovery and development is a story of ownership, innovation, leadership, resilience, and vision that there is a lot to learn from this long journey. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really trust that this conference will open space for debate and discussion on how these and other factors contribute to peacebuilding, peace consolidation and sustainable development,\u201d he said <\/p>\n<p> The Ambassador of Japan to Rwanda, H.E. Takayuki Miyashita emphasized that peace and security are fundamental for Africa to achieve development.<\/p>\n<p>About 80 participants from 9 African countries, namely; Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe are attending the conference. <\/p>\n<p>The majority of participants from outside Rwanda are from peacekeeping training and research institutions that are engaged in a similar business with the Rwanda Peace Academy.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32351 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/187a5615.jpg\" alt=\"L-R: Stephen Rodrigues, the UNDP Resident Representative to Rwanda; Maj Gen Emmanuel Bayingana, the Air Force Chief of Staff, and Col. Jill Rutaremara, Director, Rwanda Peace Academy \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32352 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/187a5592.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Defence, Maj Gen Albert Murasira has stressed the need to invest in the implementation of peacebuilding programmes to prevent future violence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-40057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40057"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=40057"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=40057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}