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In 1996 ACCORD worked extensively with women in the Sudan in a three-phase project of conflict management training for Sudanese women conducted by UNIFEM, Ahfad University and ACCORD. Additionally, ACCORD was also involved in a UNIFEM sponsored training project with women from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and Djibouti. The women have become fully-fledged conflict resolution trainers in their own countries, for building capacity and African empowerment in the field of conflict resolution. ACCORD organised a South African study tour for Burundian and Rwandese Women Parliamentarians in July 1998. The women were trained in Conflict Prevention and Multi-track Diplomacy. The women were leaders involved in the peace process in Burundi. The study tour prepared the women as facilitators to intervene in the on-going conflict in Burundi, and how to mainstream their political potentials in the government of Burundi. Evaluation revealed that the training assisted participants to work and cooperate

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