These have been worked out over a period of six months, between February and August 2005, and involving wide participation of community representatives, experts and activists. Six arenas of development have been identified, each with its criteria. The six are Absence of Violence, Dispute Resolution Mechanisms, Governance, Education, Police Relations and Community Development.
How the VPA’s Violence-Free Communities Initiative works is as follows. Once a community, whether on its own or through the effort of external agents, establishes a cease-fire, it calls on the Violence Prevention Alliance for external assistance to carry the peace process further. The VPA, once it confirms the status quo, immediately mobilises that assistance to the scale necessary to help the community rise to the next level of peace and stability. As a way of encouraging communities to strive to achieve and maintain a peaceful coexistence, the Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA) is proposing that the Private Sector and the Government adopt a scale of incentives that would be proportionately linked to the efforts of the communities. In other words, the external assistance is calibrated to serve as an incentive for rejecting violence and grasping peace, which translates into development.
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