Wiping away ignorance, bitterness, and conflict.
Building lasting peace through the heart.
Faith-based initiatives led by Emmanuel Z. Kopwe that transformed Rwanda, Burundi, DRC, South Africa and beyond.
WIPER is a faith-based company limited by guarantee, registered in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2008. The acronym stands for World Initiatives for Peace, Education and Reconciliation.
Just as a wiper cleans a windshield, WIPER wipes away the perceptions and prejudices (ignorance, unforgiveness, bitterness, hatred, injustice) that fuel destructive conflicts.
Emmanuel Z. Kopwe
CEO & Executive Director
To assist communities and institutions in the processes leading to lasting relational peace that is indispensable for sustainable development.
Qualitative resolve, transformation, and prevention of conflicts and empowerment for lasting peace necessary for sustainable development.
Global perspective on healing and peace
Strategic, empirical conflict transformation
Empowering against ignorance and poverty
Healing, hope and sustainable development
Forgiveness and restoration of relationships
Decades of peacebuilding, reconciliation, leadership mediation, and trauma healing across nations.
Mobilized churches against apartheid, 24-hour prayer vigil, backstage diplomacy that helped pave the way for Nelson Mandela’s release and the historic peaceful elections of 1994.
Conducted trauma healing and ethnic reconciliation workshops that contributed toward restoration, unity, and long-term social rebuilding after national tragedy.
Quiet mediation with rebels and government leaders, political forums, military integration efforts, and nationwide trauma healing ceremonies including symbolic reconciliation gatherings.
Ripple-effect mediation, leadership mentoring, reconciliation programs, and peace initiatives that continue impacting communities and institutions today.
Prevention workshops in Mara and Mwanza alongside “Muafaka” church-led mediation initiatives that encouraged dialogue and peace between political parties.
Documenting peacebuilding across Tanzania and Africa
leaders management empowerment
WIPER conducted a community-based workshop in Burundi focused on promoting reconciliation, healing past conflicts, and strengthening peaceful relationships among local leaders and residents.
Symbolic burning of conflict documents as a powerful act of forgiveness and new beginnings with military leaders and community members.
CEO / Executive Director
More than 15 years of frontline peace work across Africa and beyond. From backstage diplomacy in South Africa to military reconciliation ceremonies in Burundi — a journey shaped by restoration and service.
"All this is from God, who gave us the ministry of reconciliation." — 2 Corinthians 5:18
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NGOs, churches, governments, youth groups, and individuals worldwide are welcome.
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Our Address
Box 21622, Kinondoni
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Email Us
wiper3@gmail.comPhone
+255 787 879 320Skype
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