Mr. Uche Osoagha Bienose is a vibrant, diligent and resourceful Peace and Conflict Resolution Practitioner. He attended the Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, Nigeria’s premier higher institution and obtained a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Business Administration in 1996. It was while on this programme that he first came across a course on conflict resolution and management.

Again, he holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree and a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). It was during this programmes that his zest for peace building and conflict resolution reached an irrepressible level. He also holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Business Administration, a Diploma in Community Psychology, a Certificate in Conflict Management and Negotiation, and a Certificate in Peace Mediation from the United States Institute of Peace. In 2017, he was inducted as an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators of Nigeria.

Mr. Bienose is an ordained pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Nigeria. Moreover, Religions/Faiths world over in their specificity expectedly promotes peace building, conflict resolution and an atmosphere of peace, love and tolerance. Hence, part of his daily routine / responsibility is mending broken relationships, marriages and as well ensuring every one that is within his reach lives in harmony.

As a peace and conflict resolution practitioner, apart from resolving conflicts among married couples, businesses and groups, he has also facilitated the promoting of peace education in schools, churches and communities through a programme tagged: The Significance of Peaceful Co-existence with which he educated people on the meaning, nature and importance of peaceful coexistence in society thereby creating in them the consciousness about the inherent nature of conflict in society, the challenges, the possible solutions and the gains there are to both the individuals, organizations and society at large. This has created a good atmosphere for dispute resolution, helping disputants to reach amicable solutions and resuscitating broken relationships. A major significance of the programme is the enhancement of tolerance among people as they relate with one another daily.

For over nineteen years he worked as a banker, he practically, as a passion and natural urge, in his daily relationship with colleagues, clients, friends, family members, etc engaged in resolving conflicts, building relationships preventing disagreements from degenerating into violent conflicts. The experiences and training have increased his knowledge, skills / competencies such as temperance, persuasiveness, perseverance, love, coordinated presentation, etc which I hope to bring to bear as critical tools of conflict resolution and management as the mediator sometimes suffer transfer of aggression from disputants.

He has achieved a lot as a peace and conflict resolution practitioner, but there is a lot more that need to be done. Hence his intent to undertake the lead in Peace Enlightenment and Advocacy Foundation (PEAFOUND).