Events
What We Do
HPI arose due to the increasing realization that conflicts are costly and devastating not only to the generations involved but also to their descendants. Conflicts in the region have failed to be won by force of arms over the years.
Our Causes
What We Do
The HPI engages in research, training, and documentation and pays particular attention to:
Data Collection
Facilitate collection of credible data about peace, conflict, human rights, and democracy
Risk Forecast
Forecast to increase preparedness rooted in risk knowledge
Conflict Resolution
Facilitate youth-led dialogues for peaceful conflict resolution
Data Repository
Serve as a repository of data on mediation
Planning
Support intelligence-led planning
Peace Building & Mediation
Peacebuilding and mediation ensures that the study of conflict focuses not only on violence, its actors, and modalities, but also on the different insights deriving from critical engagement with processes of peace.
Our Programs
- Peace Award Programs recognizes champions of peace, security, rule of law, unity, and democratic practice and award them.
- Garissa University Action brings together different communities groups, to engage in the search for homegrown solutions to existing covert or overt, localized, or widespread conflicts in commemoration of the 148 students killed in a terrorist attack in April 2015.
- Peace Training brings together community leaders to equip them with a wide range of skills and knowledge in risk assessment, analysis, reporting, and advocacy.
- Governance Program develops scorecards for leadership and proposes peaceful ways of engaging decision making to observe accountability and transparency in resource allocation.
- Youth Program facilitates Youth Peace Champions and ToT in the in skill development in research and application of the principles of data-driven peace and dialogue advocacy
