AFPLI/APPLI uses proactive grassroots peacebuilding initiatives to foster peace, love, justice, and ethnoreligious harmony in Africa.

Our Vision

To promote Africa, the Future Land of Peace.

Our Mission

To promote projects that will give peace as alternative
to violence and war, love as alternative to ethnic hatred, hope as
alternative to despair, and wholeness as alternative to diseases and
decays, which are the direct consequences of violence and war in
Africa.

Our Objective

Our objective is to encourage Africans to say NO to wars and violence
but to say YES to peace, and most importantly to enable the
grassroots to cultivate a new lifestyle of peace and take initiatives for
homegrown peace efforts.

Our goal

Our goal is to create a new African constituency of Ethnoreligious
harmony.

Events

Last year, we celebrated the 25th International Day of Peace from September to December, 2006. Our activities included seminars, workshops, and conferences accompanying the launching of various grassroots proactive Peacebuilding clubs.

Notably, we celebrated the 25th Anniversary at the Lagos Island East Local Government in Lagos State. We visited the palaces of the Oba of Lagos, the Oba of Isolo, and the Bale of Mende. Members of the African Children of Peace visited the Lagos State Governor at Alausa; they participated in the Igbo Action Solidarity Rally, organized Air Safety Prayer at the Murtala Muhamed Airport at Ikeja, and celebrated a state-wide end of year peace parties.

Since the beginning of this year we have launched more grassroots proactive peace building clubs across the country, conducted street peace rallies, including rallies for the peaceful 2007 Nigeria General Elections. We gave peace awards to several media houses and community leaders; and we featured and promoted grassroots Peacebuilding and Ethnoreligious Harmony on the radio, television and in newspaper interviews.

This year we have started as early as August 30th, 2007, with the launching of our KAIROS Peace and Love Club at the Osun State College of Education at Ilesha.

We plan to continue with the peace program for this quarter as follows:

• Peace Legacy Week in all Local Government Secretariats where NYSC corpers who are members of our New Peace Legacy Clubs are doing their one year national service.

• Collegiate Peace Week in all institutions of higher learning across Nigeria where we have founded our KAIROS Peace and Love Clubs.

• Youth Peace Week in all junior and senior secondary schools where we have founded our Youth Peace Alliance Clubs across Nigeria.

• Children Peace Week in all kindergarten, nursery and primary schools where we have founded our African Children of Peace Clubs across Nigeria.

• Religious institutions where we have our KAYERO Peace and Love Club will celebrate the International Day of Peace in conjunction with their Peace and Harmony Day events.

• We will mobilize members of Peace Intercessors Club to pray through the rest of the year for proactive Peacebuilding in Nigeria and all over the world

• We have organized the Mayoral Peace Summit for Kings, Royal Fathers and Princesses, Traditional Rulers and Community Leaders

• We have organized a two-day summit for Non-Indigene Group Proactive Peacebuilding

• We have organized a two-day post-election summit for Local Government Chairmen, Councilors and Workers for mobilizing the community toward peaceful co-existence

• We have organized various street peace rallies for the rest of the year to create awareness for proactive grassroots Peacebuilding for Ethnoreligious harmony.

• We will conduct our second prayer for National Air Safety in collaboration with the Nigeria Airspace Management Authorities under the auspices of our African Children of Peace Club.

• We will investiture some State Governors to the position of Grand Patron and Matron for our Youth Peace Alliance Club in according to the constitution of the club.

• We will present peace awards to Media Practitioners, Religious and Community Leaders for their contribution to proactive grassroots Peacebuilding in Nigeria.

We have a number of pictures from our past events which we would like to share with fellow members of WiserEarth. Some of the pictures can also be viewed or downloaded at our website: http://www.africanprojectsforpeace.org