Who we are

There are numerous emotional reactions that a person who suffers a traumatic event may experience. The emotional reactions can last from hours to weeks and certain emotions can be repeated and appear very confusing.

The Healing of Memories Unit seeks to contribute to the healing journey of individuals, communities and nations.

Our work is grounded in the belief that we are all in need of healing, because of what we have done, what we have failed to do, and what has been done to us. .

The Community Peace-building arm activities encompass a vast number of practices that bring together youth, adults, governments, organisations and schools to help cultivate peace and healing in local communities.

Communities divided by conflict cannot sustain a lasting peace. We train and develop local peace-builders to break this cycle of violence that are rooted in their communities.

The training arm of PBDC is the Peace Building Scholars Program (PBSP). The vision of PBSP is to inspire a vision of community where a commitment to peace, security, development, reconciliation and justice transcends competing identities and interests.

We equip leaders to build peace and trust in diverse communities through a process of personal change, inclusive dialogue and team building.

Human Security The Human Security arm helps to translate the human security approach into concrete activities to improve the lives and livelihoods of people faced with complex and multidimensional situations of human insecurity.

The unit develops frameworks and tools for applying the human security approach in programmes and projects. The unit works with academic institutions, regional intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental and community-based organizations, as well as foundations to foster tangible and innovative initiatives for advancing human security in Africa.

Conflict is a natural part of the human experience. Finding a consistently peaceful way to resolve them is no easy task, for older people. The peace table is the creation of PBDC to foster convivial relations among disputing parties at a dinner table.

The vision is to provide an approach designed to help political leaders, national leaders and leaders of strategic professional groups to meet and challenge any tendency towards violence and encourage the fostering of convivial relations among stakeholders of disputing parties to reinforce the spirit of peace.

Leaders of disputing parties will use the platform to advocate for peace and call on their followers to do same. The audio and visual materials obtained from the peace table will be cascaded to individuals or communities affected by the conflict.

Communities or countries that are emerging out of conflict face multiple challenges – ranging from transitional justice issues, building civil society, creating new rule of law systems and security forces as well as rebuilding the domestic economy.

The Post conflict reconstruction programme aims at the consolidation of peace and security and the attainment of sustainable socio-economic development in a war-shattered community.

The aim of the Counter Violent Extremism arm is;

a) to promote understanding of the drivers of youth radicalization; identify factors for resistance and coping mechanisms against these drivers, and to generate policy recommendations aimed at their mitigation;

b) create awareness of the typologies and drivers of radicalization and violent extremism in Nigeria, including their local architecture and dynamics;

c) provide an outline for delegitimizing the dominant narratives of violent extremist in Nigeria and Africa and address the role of private establishments, academic institutions, NGO’s and other MDA’s in CVE research, interventions and networking.

The Non-Violent Politics arm is developed to train and to create awareness among politicians to embrace nonviolent means of seeking for political leadership positions.

We promote nonviolent action that seeks to reduce the use of violence in African Politics.

We believe that every culture and religion can employ appropriate nonviolent methods for positive social change and international peace.

The goal of the mediation training and services unit is to resolve dispute to save time and money. We get people talking and repair their relationship.

We train people to resolve conflicts through mediation.