EPLO MEMBER ORGANISATION EVENT – Global Youth Rising

Transylvania

The Peace Action Training and Research Institute of Romania* is organising the Global Youth Rising 2016 summer camp for dedicated, passionate, motivated youth activists and peacebuilders from across the globe come together to learn, share, build and exchange their experiences from their movements and organizations. The summer camp will include a variety of workshops and […]

EPLO Brown Bag Lunch Event: Integrating Gender into Conflict Analysis

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

Gender sensitivity is essential to inclusive and effective peacebuilding. However, including gender in policies and programmes can be a hard task. In order to respond to this challenge, Conciliation Resources developed a Gender & conflict analysis toolkit for peacebuilding practitioners. A complementary toolkit has been developed by Saferworld: “Gender in Conflict Analysis”. In this Brown […]

EPLO MEMBER ORGANISATION EVENT – Book Launch: ‘Taking Economic, Cultural and Social Rights Seriously in International Criminal Law’

swisspeace Sonnenbergstrasse 17, Bern

On 25 August, swisspeace is organising the book launch of 'Taking Economic, Cultural and Social Rights Seriously in International Criminal Law' by Evelyne Schmid with the participation of Dr. iur. Evelyne Schmid (University of Basel) and Prof. Frank Haldemann (University of Geneva). In her recent book, Evelyne Schmid challenges the widespread belief that economic, social […]

EPLO MEMBER ORGANISATION EVENT – Meeting of the European Forum on Armed Drones

Open Society European Policy Institute Rue du Trône 130, Brussels

The European Forum on Armed Drones (EFAD) is an informal interest group set up in 2015 for NGO professionals concerned about issues relating to armed drones. It provides opportunities for networking, information sharing, and the coordination of advocacy. All interested NGO professionals are welcome, whether or not they have previously taken part in an EFAD […]

EPLO BROWN BAG LUNCH EVENT – Madagascar: An overview of current crisis factors in the run-up to the 2018 presidential elections

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

Although the democratic election of a new government in 2014 ended five years of political crisis in Madagascar, the situation in the country remains fragile and volatile with potential for increased tensions and possibly even a new crisis in the run-up to presidential elections in 2018. Poverty is widespread and the country’s overall economic and […]

OTHER EVENT – Webinar: Nonprofits No Longer ‘Particularly Vulnerable’: What’s Next?

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has revised its Recommendation 8 on nonprofits (NPOs) to no longer characterise them as being 'particularly vulnerable' to terrorist abuse, and made important changes to the Interpretive Note to this Recommendation. NPOs are now wondering how their countries will react to these revisions and how they can ensure that […]

EPLO BROWN BAG LUNCH EVENT – A Civil Society Vision for the Future of Syria

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

In the absence of political progress in Geneva to end the war in Syria, Syrian civil society groups are working together to end the Syrian crisis and establish a future Syria where equal rights and responsibilities are granted to all Syrians. In this EPLO Brown Bag Lunch discussion, a delegation of Syrian civil society activists […]

OTHER EVENT – Book Launch: Business and Conflict in Fragile States: The Case for Pragmatic Solutions

Maison de la Paix Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2, Geneva

Large-scale investments in fragile states – in Latin America, Africa, the former Soviet Union and Asia – have increasingly become magnets for conflict that undermines business, development and security. International policy has so far responded to these challenges with regulation, state-building and institutional reform, but with poor and often perverse results. Caught up in old […]