The Totto-Chan Executive Director, Jim Long noted the training is an opportunity for the women who are the mothers, pillars of society as well as leaders to increase their capacity to address the problems and broken social systems in their communities. He said that it gives them the chance to see how to address these problems as political leaders and as members of the civil society.

According to the Isis-WICCE Exchange Programme Coordinator Harriet Musoke, the peace education addresses priorities of post conflict in South Sudan and will provide knowledge and skills to improve the competence of the women leaders to engage and take lead in conflict transformation and peace building. Women leaders will receive training in three modules on Understanding of conflict, Trauma management and Women and Leadership.

As agents of change who are critical to nation building, women leaders will go through a process of reflection and action, open their minds to new possibilities, provide new approaches to addressing pertinent issues in their community settings that impact on their lives and the communities they lead. The peace training programme is in response to study findings which  recommended that women need targeted education opportunities to address the current deficit to bridge the gender gap. The Study was conducted in 2007 under the title, 'Women's experiences during armed conflict in South Sudan, 1983-2005: the case of Juba County, Central Equatorial State.' It was undertaken by the Ministry of Social Development (MoSD), TCCT and Isis-WICCE, with the support of the office of the Governor of Central Equatorial State.

Furthermore, the training addresses Millennium Development Goal 3 on the need to address gender disparity in education. It also responds to the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security which calls for measures to support local women's peace initiatives and indigenous processes for conflict resolution.

This programme has been made possible with the development support of the MDG3 Fund by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Hivos.