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Shared security and peace governance : the Malian experience
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Owing to the importance of inter-community meetings, a Programme's delegation crisscrossed the country with the aim of identifying areas of conflicts and drawing up the relevant map towards the socio-ecological zoning of the different regions of Mali. The delegation facilitated the intervention of local authorities. It also supported civil society organisations in project formulation and in animating consultations in several localities. In the same vein, the Programme organised a« Symposium on Social Dialogue and Inter-Community Meetings» which made it possible to evaluate the consultation process with field actors and to define new lines of thought to consolidate peace and security. The edition of the Symposium's Acts is in progress. The said Acts will be useful to the communities, field actors, decision-makers and researchers. Furthermore, the Programme gave capacity-building assistance to the National Commission against Proliferation of Light Weapons and its units in Gao and Kayes regions. The activities Commission's activities took the form of campaigns to inform and sensitize the populations, particularly in school and academic circles, on the dangers of Proliferation of Light Weapons and the need to develop a culture of peace and non-violence. Apart from these results, we feel that the following three main achievements are adequate enough for capitalisation, consolidation and even fructification: · Firstly, t he Programme contributed to improving the global governance of security in Mali. First of its kind since the country gained independence, it offered the authorities, as well as the populations of Mali, the opportunity to promote a new security vision which is based on human security, sharing of roles and responsibilities among the different actors of the Security Sector. The strategy to involve stakeholders, particularly the civil society, in the prevention and management of conflicts and natural disasters, is 81