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The Peacebuilding Program fosters social cohesion, reconciliation, and peaceful coexistence among conflict-affected communities across South Sudan.

Recognizing the vital link between education and lasting peace, our program strengthens local peace infrastructures, supports trauma healing, and promotes the active participation of women, youth, and marginalized groups. By integrating peacebuilding with local livelihood initiatives and capacity building for traditional and local authorities, we ensure sustainable, community-owned solutions to conflict.

How We Work

Rather than imposing top-down solutions, we empower communities to lead their own peace processes and resolve disputes constructively. Our comprehensive approach includes:

  • Strengthening Community Peace Infrastructures: Establishing inclusive county-level peace committees, training local officials in conflict resolution and leadership, and supporting reviews of peace legislation.
  • Promoting Trauma Healing & Reconciliation: Creating community platforms for collective trauma healing, conducting training in restorative justice and psychosocial management, and facilitating structured community dialogues.
  • Supporting Alternative Dispute Resolution & Rule of Law: Equipping traditional authorities and local institutions to manage land, property, and displacement disputes, while strengthening Police Community Relations Committees and rehabilitating traditional courts.
  • Engendering Participation in Peace Processes: Training women, youth, and persons with disabilities in mediation, public speaking, and advocacy to ensure their active representation in county-level peace strategies.
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Sustaining Reconciliation

Peace is not merely the absence of war, but the presence of justice, reconciliation, and trust built from within the community.

Inclusive Leadership

Sustainable peace is only possible when every voice, especially women, youth, and marginalized groups has a seat at the decision-making table.

Why It Matters

Protracted conflict, intercommunal violence, and displacement break social fabrics and create deep cycles of trauma and distrust. Without local mechanisms for dispute resolution and reconciliation, minor grievances can quickly escalate into larger crises.

By strengthening local rule of law, healing psychological wounds, and bringing women and youth to the forefront of peacebuilding, we help communities shift from reactive conflict management to proactive, lasting harmony.

Frequently Asked Questions

Have questions about ACEA and our work? Below are some of the most commonly asked questions about who we are, what we do, and how we support vulnerable communities across Africa through humanitarian response, recovery, and resilience-building initiatives.

The African Christian Ecumenical Alliance (ACEA) is a faith-based humanitarian and development organization working to empower vulnerable communities across Africa through relief, recovery, resilience, and spiritual support initiatives.

ACEA works in disaster relief and recovery, community resilience, peace building, education support, livelihood improvement, trauma healing, and humanitarian response.

ACEA supports vulnerable populations including refugees, internally displaced people (IDPs), returnees, women, children, persons with disabilities, and host communities affected by crisis and poverty.

You can support ACEA by donating, partnering with us, volunteering, or helping amplify our mission to reach vulnerable communities across Africa.