Violence Prevention Initiative (VPI)

The year 2017 started with many ambitions from the genocide prevention program and our partner the Burundi Peacebuilding and Nonviolence Network. The main focus of our activities for this year was to position the Network in a way that could promote their independence, as well as giving the Genocide Prevention Program’s Violence Prevention Initiative (VPI) a permanent footing in Burundi. One objective we set was to recruit and fund a permanent technical secretariat for the Network, who would monitor activities of the Network and give suggestions on the ways the Network could grow and expend, while strengthening its internal capacities.