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PoC Week side event: Civilian-centered approaches to PoC
As part of the annual 2024 United Nations Protection of Civilians week, which takes place around the annual UN Security Council Open Debate on the Protection of Civilians, a side event on ‘Civilian-Centred Approaches to POC: what works, why and advancing acceptance within the international system’ was held at the Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The event was co-organised by
Nonviolent Peaceforce, CIVIC, Creating Safer Space, Global Protection Cluster, HPG/ODI, Oxfam, NORCAP, PAX, the Permanent Observer Mission of the African Union to the UN and the Permanent
Missions of El Salvador, the Netherlands, Philippines and South Sudan.
The presentations by protection practitioners and researchers highlighted how civilian-centred approaches to protection complement traditional protection methods and improve and expand protection responses and outcomes. The ensuing discussion focused on how humanitarian, peacebuilding, and peacekeeping organizations, as well as donors and regional organizations, can support these civilian-led protection initiatives to reduce, prevent and interrupt violence in the short-term and co-create a conducive environment for sustaining peace in the longer term. The event drew on multiple experiences from research and practice, reflecting what has worked, what can be learned, and what is needed to ensure that civilian-led approaches are systematically adopted and infused into institutional protection efforts.
More about the event can bread in the summary report.
About this event
Date of event:
23 May 2024
Location:
New York
