Peacebuilding & Social Cohesion
Turning resource conflict into shared futures through dialogue, mediation, and inter-community trust.
The Challenge
Conflict at the Heart of ASAL Vulnerability
In Kenya's ASAL counties, inter-community conflict — often triggered by competition over water, pasture, and livestock — remains a persistent driver of poverty, displacement, and developmental regression. Climate change intensifies this dynamic: as resources shrink, tensions rise.
Isiolo County sits at the confluence of multiple pastoral communities — Borana, Somali, Samburu, Meru, and others — whose boundaries and resource rights are contested and fluid. Without sustained dialogue and mediation infrastructure, cycles of conflict recur regardless of development investment.
ASREP's peacebuilding programme is grounded in a conviction that peace is not the absence of conflict — it is the presence of just, inclusive, and resilient social systems.
Our Approach
Dialogue First. Community Led.
Peace Actor Training
Training community mediators, religious leaders, elders, women, and youth as frontline peace actors with conflict resolution skills grounded in local cultural practices.
Isiolo Peace Actors Forum
A standing multi-community forum where grievances are aired, shared protocols established, and agreements reached — convened quarterly with ASREP facilitation.
Early Warning Systems
Community-based monitoring that tracks resource tension hotspots and triggers rapid response dialogue before conflicts escalate to violence.
Cross-Community Exchange
Facilitated visits and joint activities between communities — particularly women's and youth groups — that build personal relationships across identity lines.
Flagship Initiative
Isiolo Peace Actors Forum
The Isiolo Peace Actors Forum is ASREP's flagship peacebuilding structure — a multi-stakeholder, multi-community space for structured dialogue, grievance airing, and joint resource management agreement.
500+
Peace Actors Engaged
10
Wards Represented
60%
Women & Youth
Partners
