The skills and resources the local community brings to this project are:
a) Peace builders selected from the local communities with whom we partner. Peace Bridges always seeks to stand alongside or behind local peace builders, rather than take the lead. This empowers and honours the resource these locals are to their community, moving away from dependence on a ‘peace building professional’.
b) Community peace builders develop out of the impacts of peace builders and then impact others in their circles in that community.
c) Locations for running trainings, conciliations,and mediations - where possible using the communities own financial resources.
d) The natural peace making skills and relationships of influence which peace builders and community peace builders already have, that Peace Bridges is able to build on.
e) The transfer of skills and values into healthier habits for good communication within communities, organisations in those communities and families in those communities.
Other stakeholder involvement in the project include:
a) The Evangelical Fellowship of Cambodia, under whose auspices Peace Bridges has permission from the Ministry of Religions and Cults to cooperate with other governments and non– government authorities throughout the country. Peace Bridges uses these authorities to register trainings and other interventions as required under local law.
b) Christian missions and denominational groups, local churches, international and national development organisations, local community and governing groups. Peace Bridges partners with these groups to select peace builders and to mobilise the peace builders in target communities the groups are working in.
c) The Peace Bridges Board of Governance is delegated authority from the Evangelical Fellowship of Cambodia (EFC) under a written Memorandum of Understanding and separate constitution to direct the affairs of Peace Bridges without interference. In turn Peace Bridges reports on its activities to the EFC and feeds into its strategic planing processes through representation on the EFC executived) Peace Bridges networks with other organisations involved in similar activities, both Christian and those outside the Christian tradition.
