Welcome to PLAN (Peace and Leadership of African Nations), a global non-profit organization dedicated to empowering Africa through effective leadership, sustainable development, and lasting peace. Together, we shape a brighter future by unleashing African leadership potential, building prosperity, and fostering peace. Join us in creating positive change for Africa.
Peace and Leadership of African Nations is a fast-expanding international not-for-profit organization, which aims at leadership and sustainable development as well as peacebuilding in Africa through an all-inclusive approach and dialogue. We believe that there is a strong correlation between responsible leadership, development, and a peaceful society. We equally believe there is a strong correlation between bad leadership, underdevelopment, and a violent society—and this is the case in Africa, where bad governance and selfish leadership have successfully placed the continent’s wealth in the hands of a few people, resulting in underdevelopment and a situation where many citizens of a continent endowed with vast human and natural resources are living in abject penury. This has been a major and fundamental cause of violent and continuing conflicts in Africa. Our approach is, therefore, to tackle the issues of leadership, development and peace in tandem, and then make use of our competitive advantage as a continent.
We appreciate the fact that every individual is unique and has something great to contribute to the welfare and success of our society. As such, we provide the platform, avenue, and the opportunity for all those who have a stake in the peace, progress and development of the African continent to discuss current and future issues in order to lead the continent forward in a way that has never been done. To achieve this, we make tremendous contributions towards building a society of peace, dialogue and consensus building, freedom and development, as well as other activities geared towards sound governance, development and peace in Africa. Among other things, we are engaged in leadership training efforts, as well as conducting evidence-based research that targets a lasting solution to the multi-source conflicts that have plagued Africa and plundered away its human and natural resources for so many years now.
Peace and Leadership of African Nations (PLAN) is an independent not-for-profit organization established in 2016. PLAN is the brainchild of Dr. Vitus Ozoke, a Lawyer, and Professor of Conflict Resolution at Salisbury University, Maryland, United States. His intention is to create a platform for peace, leadership and development experts, practitioners, and scholars, and also African leaders, politicians, non-governmental organizations, and other stakeholders to discuss and pursue issues of peace, security, leadership and sustainable development in Africa.
To promote peacebuilding processes, and ensure leadership and sustainable development in Africa.
PLAN is governed by a board, comprising the following:
President and Executive Director
Vice President
Managing Director
Board Member
Board Member
Board member
Adminstrative Assistant
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This is an annual platform we provide for experts and stakeholders to discuss peace in Africa and make contributions to contemporary ways of peace building, conflict management and transformation.
One of the major problems facing Africa’s progress, development, and transformation is leadership. To help mitigate this, we organize leadership seminars and empowerment programs to build the kind of transformational leaders Africa needs to become a truly independent and a self-reliant continent. In so doing, we are helping to make Africa a continent that can survive beyond aids that cripple its development and very entity.
This project seeks to engage African leaders, politicians, and other stakeholders in a peaceful but thought-provoking fora and conversations about leadership actions and decisions that do not champion the cause of Africa, but only serve the interest of the few in leadership and foreign nations. Critical questions about the management of Africa’s natural resources, fraudulent government contracts with foreign nations and companies, leasing of African state-owned companies to foreign nations and companies, to mention but a few, are discussed. For instance, AE fora will discuss why would Chinese nationals have the audacity to invade and destroy Ghana’s forest reserves and pollute water bodies in the name of mining? What policy steps are required of government to stop these activities? What must Africa do to be in real control of their natural and other resources to ensure a robust development of the African continent? These fora provide rare, but brilliant opportunity for Africans to debate on critical issues that will emancipate and move Africa from the so-called ‘third world countries’ classification, into becoming a developed world. Issues of corruption, mismanagement, cronyism, among others, are also discussed in AE fora in order to find collective and a more pragmatic ways of dealing with these challenges.
This model challenges the African youth in the areas of creativity and critical thinking initiatives. Creative initiatives will not only lead to new ideas, products and inventions, but will also enhance capacity building and development in Africa.
We organize Appreciative Inquiry workshops for African communities, organizations and institutions to assist them focus on their individual and collective strengths and talents, and channel their time, energies and resources to building on these strengths to bring about a positive organizational and institutional change and development, which in the long run will bring about prosperity and peace in our society.