PESHAWAR: Women representatives of different faiths at a training worl(shop here on Friday pledged to work together for maintenance of sustainable peace, social cohesion and finding solution to the problems of their respective communities in a unified manner.

The training session was organised by Peace Education and Development (PE AD) Foundation under `Women Peace Builders Network` project.

The workshop titled `devising early warning mechanism for community-based women groups` was aimed to enable these women to promote peace, religious harmony and tolerance in their respective communities and help prevent disputes.

Around 60 women from different union councils of the provincial metropolis attended the workshop. The participants were taught how to access, collect and channelise the information from different sources for further necessary actions to prevent any unfavouable incident in their localities.

They were also given opportunity to meet officials of police, social welfare department, directorate of human rights and members of dispute resolution councils.

On the occasion, Shoaib Khan, one of the master trainers and deputy director of directorate of human rights, shed light on protection of human rights, prevention of violence against women and how to access the relevant officials of human rights directorate in case of any violation of their rights.

He informed the participants about the initiatives taken by the government departments for welfare of public. He also shared the helpline number with the participants to contact in case of any problem.

SP Sahibzada Sajjad Khan said KP police were striving to ensure protection to the people regardless oftheircreed or caste. He said minorities, particularly women, should immediately contact police if they or their community members faced any problem.

Dr Shahid Khan, another master trainer, said without active involvement of minorities their problems could not be addressed. He informed the people about how to play their due role for the country`s development by utilising the available resources.

PEAD coordinator Shagufta Khalique said they wanted to enable common women to resolve their problems by themselves and sensitise their communities to tolerance and interfaith harmony.

`These women can play an instrumental role in helping their communities in difficult situations,` she added. Bureau Report