The Africa Partnership Aid for Rehabilitation and Development or APARD on Thursday trained civil society organizations on conflict mitigation.
APARD Program Manager Mangar Machuol Malok urged the trainees to take peace building initiative seriously and teach their communities, Good News Radio reported.
He told participants to be ambassadors of peace at all levels.
One of the participants who is also member of the State Legislative Assembly
Isaac Makur Buoc applauded the training and advised trainees to abandon hostility.
He said the hostility and the revenge were filled on people traditionally and by long civil war.
MP Makur encouraged the participants to put into practice the knowledge they gained by moving to schools, churches to deliver messages of peace.
He told his fellow participants that the major task was to tell people about the importance of peace in Lakes state and South Sudan.
Lakes state is of one of the most chaotic states in South Sudan since the signing of the comprehensive peace agreement.