EPLO Brown Bag Lunch Event – Stabilisation versus Peacebuilding: case studies from post-Daesh Iraq and the Middle East

EPLO office Hive5 Saint-Michel, Cours Saint-Michel 30B, Brussels

The Global Coalition Against Daesh has set stabilisation as a major goal after the military “liberation” of Iraqi and Syrian territories from Daesh, and created short-term funding tools to this end. Meanwhile, since 2014, a huge number of Iraqi activists and ordinary citizens have taken to the streets in several waves of protests to demand […]

EPLO Brown Bag Lunch Event – Counter-terror and the logic of violence in Somalia’s civil war

EPLO office Hive5 Saint-Michel, Cours Saint-Michel 30B, Brussels

‘Counter Terror and the logic of violence in Somalia’s civil war: Time for a new approach’ is a new publication written by Joanne Crouch from Saferworld’s Somalia team. The paper explores the effectiveness of the counter-terror approach in tackling conflict with al-Shabaab looking at it through two key lenses. The first is an overview of […]

EPLO Member Organisation Event: Lessons Learned, Fairness, and Access to Justice in Hybrid Tribunals and Specialised Chambers

Oceania Room, World Forum, The Hague

Join the ICTJ on December 5 from 13:15-14:45 as they present their paper, "Committing to Justice for Serious Human Rights Violations: Lessons from Hybrid Tribunals," and participate in the side event discussion panel at the 17th Session of the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court. The event, "Lessons Learned, Fairness, and Access […]

CIVIL SOCIETY DIALOGUE NETWORK EVENT – Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace 2019-20 Multiannual Action Programme (Article 4) and 2019 Annual Action Programme (Article 5) & Implementation of Article 3

The meeting is being organised in the framework of the Civil Society Dialogue Network (CSDN), with the support of the European External Action Service (EEAS), and the European Commission (Service for Foreign Policy Instruments and Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development) (EC). Its purpose is to gather input from representatives of civil society organisations (CSOs) […]

EPLO Member Organisation Event – Roundtable ‘Implementation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide’

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations and signed on the 9th of December, 1948 just one day before the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It represented a milestone document aimed at fundamentally changing the attitude of […]

EPLO Brown Bag Lunch Event: Perceptions of human security in southeast Myanmar

EPLO office Hive5 Saint-Michel, Cours Saint-Michel 30B, Brussels

Saferworld, in collaboration with the Karen Peace Support Network, recently conducted the largest randomised survey to date on people’s experiences and perceptions of security, justice and governance in southeast Myanmar. It provides unprecedented insights into the experiences of ordinary people in the highly contested Karen ceasefire areas, including in the Bago, Kayin, Mon and Tanintharyi […]

ICTJ – Report Presentation: Transitional Justice and SDG16+

Peace Palace, The Hague Carnegieplein 2, Den Haag

The International Center for Transitional Justice, in partnership with the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, the Knowledge Platform Security & Rule of Law, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands, invites you to a presentation of the report “Transitional Justice and SDG16+” in The Hague, in the afternoon on February 8, […]

EPLO Brown Bag Lunch Event – Data-Driven Protection in Peacekeeping Operations: Insights from the DRC and South Sudan

EPLO office Hive5 Saint-Michel, Cours Saint-Michel 30B, Brussels

The Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC) recently published a report entitled ‘Data-Driven Protection: Linking Threat Analysis to Planning in UN Peacekeeping Operations’. This report includes reflections on how the identification and response to threats affecting civilians could be improved in peacekeeping missions through a better link between analysis and planning. Few things are more […]

EPLO Brown Bag Lunch Event – Strengthening Europe’s conflict prevention, resolution and mediation – A discussion with Michael Keating

EPLO office Hive5 Saint-Michel, Cours Saint-Michel 30B, Brussels

In this EPLO Brown Bag Lunch discussion, the European Institute of Peace's Executive Director, Michael Keating, will initiate a discussion about the changing political support for European conflict resolution, the conflict prevention and resolution priorities for EU Member States and the EU, and the consequences for European civil society actors. Michael Keating joined the European […]

EPLO Brown Bag Lunch Event – Supporting local women-led organisations’ work on peace, security and P/CVE: Lessons learnt from the implementation of the Innovative Peace Fund in Libya

Supporting local civil society organisations (CSOs) involved in peacebuilding and preventing/countering violent extremism (P/CVE) is increasingly recognised as a necessary and efficient way of promoting sustainable peace. However, providing funding to such organisations can be challenging for a variety of reasons, including administrative limitations, difficulties in identifying appropriate local actors or the perceived "risk" of […]