International Justice & Peace Conference Cameroon (IJPC)
The International Justice and Peace Conference (IJPC) in Cameroon will empower Africans to do their own healing in a decolonized context, to connect across centuries-long divides, and to create a social environment where African people can live a life of dignity, safety, and loving-kindness. Together, they co-create in a safe space, discuss grievances, undo layers of colonialism and inequality, and weed out seeds of distrust, fear, and hostility.
Delegates learn skills and tools for healing and connecting across divisions, which they will bring back to their communities to sustain and expand on these new pathways to justice and peace. This program also serves as the first step to creating “Peace Hubs” across Africa. These hubs would continue the process of connecting, healing, reconciliation, and transformation, using the skills the delegates learn at the conference.
The vision of the IJPC is to restore, repair, and sustain the social fabric, so that justice, unity, and peace will prevail from within Cameroon and other African communities, and real independence will manifest.
We, the organizers of the IJPC, seek to move people beyond divisions of ethnicity, language, and other divides to a common ground of shared humanity. We aim to support them in healing from the past that affects their present, freeing them to redefine the future they want. With support from Baba Tree International, we are able to make this a reality.
