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Events
PAX organizes expert events focused around the protection of civilians. We regularly convene a global community of practitioners and policymakers to discuss recent developments, challenges and opportunities for improving the protection of civilians.
We host periodic roundtables on the sidelines of important international policy debates, and also put on regular PoC Conferences focused around critical themes. Scroll down for more information about past and future events.
Recent event
May 21, 2025
UN PoC Week side event: Where PoC and WPS meet
On the sidelines of the UN’s Annual Debate on PoC, PAX and other government and civil society partners hosted a discussion on ‘Where PoC and Women, Peace and Security Meet: Advancing WPS and Gender Perspectives in IHL’. The event brought together experts to discuss the gendered dimensions of civilian harm, and best practices and lessons learned for mainstreaming WPS principles in PoC policies and practices.
Events
21 May 2025
19 May 2025
13 May 2025
April 15, 2025
10 April 2025
17 February 2025
5-6 September
23 May 2024
24 May 2023
26 May 2022
24 May 2022
24 May 2022
April 13, 2022
April 4, 2022
June 17, 2021
May 27, 2021
May 26, 2021
March 25, 2021
December 1, 2020
November 2, 2020
October 28, 2020
June 1, 2020
PAX PoC Conferences
December 1-3, 2021
2021 – PAX Protection of Civilians Conference
On December 1-3, 2021, PAX brought together PoC partners to discuss three key themes: international support to local security actors, accountability for military missions, and PoC champions in the future of warfare.
Read moreDecember 1-3, 2020
2020 – PAX Protection of Civilians Conference
On December 1-3, 2020, we brought together our network of PoC partners on three key themes: People and Protection, National Contributions to PoC, and the Reverberating Effects of Civilian Harm.
Read moreDecember 3, 2019
2019 – Contributing to Human Security Through Training: A Mission Impossible?
Training of international security forces and governance actors is commonly seen as one of the more viable and safe options to contribute to goals as wide as Security Sector Reform (SSR), Protection of Civilians (PoC), Gender, counter terrorism, stabilization, anti-piracy and border security. The Netherlands contributes to many forms of training with a variety of means coordinated by a diversity of bodies. Building international capacities in complex and fragile settings is riddled with challenges such as competing political interests and coordination mechanisms, a limited capacity to plan for and adjust to local realities, a general lack of outcome tracking and ultimately the risk of harming human security despite the best intentions.
Read moreNovember 14-15, 2018
2018 – Applying Data for Peacekeeping
Peacekeeping relies on structural, actionable and timely information to be effective. The challenges lie in collecting and collating relevant information, applying information for effective actions and measuring performance. The conference brought together researchers and data specialists, peacekeeping staff and policy makers.
Read moreOctober 4-5, 2017
2017 – Protection of Civilians: Shared Goals, Different Visions?
On 4 and 5 October 2017 the Protection of Civilians Department of PAX organized the conference ‘’Protection of Civilians. Shared Goals, Different Visions?’’ in The Hague, Netherlands.
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