EPaRDA has been a pioneer in attempting to facilitate and organize in-country as well as cross-border (Ethiopia and Kenya) conflict mitigation and peacebuilding initiatives in South Omo and adjacent areas. These interventions brought face-to-face various rival pastoralist ethnic groups to collaborate and engage in peacebuilding efforts. EPaRDA has conducted a series of such peacemaking processes, among them (a) Arbore, Hamer, Konso, and Borana. (b) Mursi, Ari, and Bodi; (c) Hamer, Dassanech, Nyangatom, Karo, Muguji, Mursi, and Bodi; and (D) cross-border peace-building endeavors were also made to reduce tensions between the Turkana of Kenya and Dassanech and Nyangatom of Ethiopia. 

The Dassanech are one of the groups involved in long-lasting conflicts with their neighbors, especially the Kenyan Turkana. In these successful peacebuilding interventions, EPaRDA pursued a facilitating and non-interventionist strategy that enhanced the participation of the beneficiaries in the whole peacemaking process by attaining their good will, acknowledging their various indigenous methods of conflict management, and empowering them to conduct the peace process by themselves.