Violence Prevention Initiative’s Burundi Peace and Nonviolence Project First Quarter, 2016 Report
Executive Summary
This report will cover GPP’s activities in Burundi from December 2015 to the end of Q1 2016 (March 2016), and provide a preliminary impact assessment of our work to date. Section 1 provides details about our views of the current crisis, and the perspectives of the Burundian government, the opposition, civil society, and Burundian citizens. Section 2 is addressed to EU and US policy makers. Section 3 discusses GPP’s activities on November 28, 2015—a day that is dedicated, nationally, to promoting Peace and Nonviolence. GPP’s Activities took place in Gitega province, and all GPP’s partner groups from Ngozi, Bururi, Bujumbura and Gitega were invited. Many activities were conducted that day, and several hundred participants attended the events. We would like to provide a special thank you to “Radio Star RM” for broadcasting the information about activities organized by George Mason University in partnership with Ngozi University and the Burundi Peacebuilding and Nonviolence Network