PEACE AND LEADERSHIP OF AFRICAN NATIONS
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
What We Do
We conduct scientific research and publish in the areas of peacebuilding, leadership development, capacity building, and sustainable development.
We provide consultancy services in the areas of peace, leadership and sustainable development.
We strive to help build a peaceful society which provide a conducive environment for development. To ensure this, we offer training in mediation, facilitation, and other methods of conflict resolution. This training services enable our participants to acquire conflict resolution skills in order to resolve conflicts effectively and fruitfully in their communities and organizations. We also provide capacity building workshops which aim at training and offering the African continent competent and dynamic leadership that is required to effectively and strategically tackle the challenges facing African countries.
We provide a platform for experts to engage in consensus building and how to promote peace and development in Africa. We also provide a platform for experts across the globe to contribute their rich ideas and experience towards the transformation and the empowerment of human resources in Africa.
From time to time, we organize conferences that attract experts from the international community to enhance exchange of ideas and opinions that promote development in Africa.
We work with academics, governments, politicians, experts, the African Union, United Nations, and other international governmental and non-governmental organizations that are interested in peace, leadership development and sustainable development in Africa.
We encourage you to get involved with us! We know you can play a major role in our organization: you can get involved to learn what we are doing to support Africa; you can support our international campaigns for peace, leadership and sustainable development; you can also partner with us and contribute your intellectual quota or otherwise to our noble dream of a peaceful, stable and developed Africa.
We believe in the power of a healthy collaboration. Therefore, we welcome and are willing to work with local partners in various communities to ensure that grass root conflicts, leadership and development issues are fruitfully handled to benefit the larger community. Local organizations and institutions looking to promote peacebuilding and development are invited to collaborate with us.
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.